Margaret Mitchell House and Museum

Address:990 Peachtree St.
Atlanta, Georgia
Tel: (404) 249-7015

Movie-lovers and literary aficionados alike should put the Margaret Mitchell House and Museum on their list of attractions to visit in Atlanta. The Margaret Mitchell House and Museum includes a Visitors Center; the house in which Mitchell wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Gone with the Wind, and the Gone with the Wind Museum. A 60 to 90-minute docent-led tour starts in the Visitors Center with exclusive photographs and archival exhibits that tell the story of Margaret Mitchell beyond Gone with the Wind. The tour includes the life and writings of Margaret Mitchell's youth, explores the house and apartment where she lived and wrote as an adult, and ends in the Gone with the Wind Movie Museum. The 1939 movie, starring Clark Gable as Rhett, and Vivien Leigh as Scarlett, immortalized Mitchell's characters on the silver screen, only 3 years after her book was published. The museum illuminates the making of the movie through original objects, correspondence and artifacts such as the legendary doorway to Tara.

Built in 1899 by Cornelius J. Sheehan, the two-story, single-family home on fashionable Peachtree Street, was converted in 1919 into a 10-unit apartment building. From 1925 until 1932, Margaret Mitchell lived with her husband in Apartment #1. Margaret Mitchell's apartment became a literary salon for bohemian Atlanta and a central meeting place for aspiring writers and journalists.

If you want to take a little piece of Mitchell's world home with you, stop by the Museum Shop, complete with unique gifts, souvenirs and Gone with the Wind collectibles and memorabilia.

The Margaret Mitchell House and Museum is located near the corner of Peachtree Street and Crescent Avenue, North of downtown Atlanta. Free parking is available adjacent to the property.

The house was converted into a 10-unit apartment building - Crescent Apartments. During this time, families were selling their homes to make way for commercial development. The owner pushed the house back 40 feet toward Crescent Avenue, propped it up, added a ground floor, tore off the front porches, added porches to the back of the house and turned it into a three-story apartment building. The new address became 17 Crescent Avenue. In 1926, the address changed to 979 Crescent Avenue.