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I came upon this article while searching for specific George Barnard Atlanta photos. I'm an ATL resident, and of course an enthusiast of the time period, but even I missed this in my traveling around town looking at ACW specific areas:
"One block off of Peachtree Street in Atlanta is a row of white columns that date back to before the Civil War. They are the 12 Ionic columns that are arrayed in front of the Peachtree Circle Apartments at 149 Peachtree Circle, in the Ansley Park neighborhood. Little remains of Atlanta from before the Civil War, and in addition to being rare artifacts, these columns also have connections to Margaret Mitchell and Gone with the Wind, Civil War generals from both sides of the conflict and Asa Candler, business founder of Coca-Cola.
According to Ms. Kathleen Disney, a member of the family that owns the Peachtree Circle Apartments, the columns were originally part of the Leyden House, a prominent residence on Peachtree Street that was demolished in 1913. The home was designed by John Boutell, and it was built in 1858. Ms. Disney provided me with an Atlanta Journal article from February 23rd, 1913, page 8-C, that describes the Leyden House, saying that it was located in the middle of the block between Ellis and Cain Streets [Cain is now Andrew Young International Boulevard]. The columns were part of the original structure of the Leyden home built in 1858, as stated in an article by Belle K. Abbott on historic homes in the January 1892 issue of The Old Homestead. That makes the columns 155 years old as of 2013 — quite an age for the relatively young city of Atlanta."
The rest of the essay can be found at this web link, with modern day and period photos of the Leyden House columns: http://historyatlanta.com/the-old-leyden-house-columns/
"One block off of Peachtree Street in Atlanta is a row of white columns that date back to before the Civil War. They are the 12 Ionic columns that are arrayed in front of the Peachtree Circle Apartments at 149 Peachtree Circle, in the Ansley Park neighborhood. Little remains of Atlanta from before the Civil War, and in addition to being rare artifacts, these columns also have connections to Margaret Mitchell and Gone with the Wind, Civil War generals from both sides of the conflict and Asa Candler, business founder of Coca-Cola.
According to Ms. Kathleen Disney, a member of the family that owns the Peachtree Circle Apartments, the columns were originally part of the Leyden House, a prominent residence on Peachtree Street that was demolished in 1913. The home was designed by John Boutell, and it was built in 1858. Ms. Disney provided me with an Atlanta Journal article from February 23rd, 1913, page 8-C, that describes the Leyden House, saying that it was located in the middle of the block between Ellis and Cain Streets [Cain is now Andrew Young International Boulevard]. The columns were part of the original structure of the Leyden home built in 1858, as stated in an article by Belle K. Abbott on historic homes in the January 1892 issue of The Old Homestead. That makes the columns 155 years old as of 2013 — quite an age for the relatively young city of Atlanta."
The rest of the essay can be found at this web link, with modern day and period photos of the Leyden House columns: http://historyatlanta.com/the-old-leyden-house-columns/
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