page_title: Washington–Rawson
section_title: Fine residential district
hierarchical_section_title: Washington–Rawson / Fine residential district
caption_attribution_description: English: Ad for Washington Heights subdivison, Atlanta 1890
context_page_description: Washington–Rawson was a neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. It included what is now Georgia State Stadium and the large parking lot to its north, until 1997 the site of Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium, as well as the I-20-Downtown Connector interchange. Washington and Rawson streets intersected where the interchange is today. To the northwest was Downtown Atlanta, to the west Mechanicsville, to the east Summerhill, and to the south Washington Heights, now called Peoplestown.
context_section_description: By the mid-1870s, Washington Street was becoming one of the city's finest residential streets. The neighborhood was wealthy at the turn of the twentieth century: Encyclopædia Britannica of 1910 listed Washington Street as one of the finest residential areas of the city, along with Peachtree Street, Ponce de Leon Circle (now Ponce de Leon Avenue in Midtown) and Inman Park. Mansions included those of governor and senator Joseph E. Brown, his brother, attorney Julius L. Brown, restaurant owner Henry R. Durand, and fertilizer magnate and Standard Club co-founder Isaac Schoen.
caption: 1890 newspaper ads describing the mansions of Washington Street
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