Terry's Tiny Tour: 16 in Scottdale Georgia Off the Main Roads

I hope nobody is home when I cruise neighborhoods taking pictures. On this day nobody was around.

And I'm always wanting to see what's off the main roads in Scottdale. I'd blogged the houses around the green before, just charming, but never south of the tracks.

Scottdale, Georgia is just inside the Perimeter just north of Avondale Estates and east of Decatur. It was a mill town but I'm not sure it was ever an official town. Your Dekalb Farmers Market is in Scottdale.

I shot these for our House Portraits - House Painters - Vernacular Cracker show at VintageATL but I didn't have time to make anything of it.

My tiny video tour of Scottdale lasts 3:07. I'm fascinated. This is familiar territory in the south, familiar to me for my whole life. What do you think?

Please click here if you can't see the video.

Scottdale Gables

Scottdale Mills? Scottdale, Georgia? Agnes Scott College? Same family. When I'm in the area, I take a little drive around. It's only a few blocks. I am a gable guy and swoon at views like this. (There is a secret picture for garden bloggers Tara and Pam, will they notice?)



Scottdale is one of the Atlanta area's milltowns, preserved differently than those in Cabbagetown, The Old 4th Ward, and Home Park.



It's not in a "hip" area. These 2 are on a green, unlike any other in Atlanta, as far as I know. No hip shops or restaurants; no cool residents in sight (but they must surely be very cool). No tourists, no parking problems, no scene.



These 2 houses were built as duplexes. They didn't need these nice details. Notice the two chimneys, one for each apartment.


The modest chimney has looked great every day of it's life.


You see these hipped roof porches on period houses everywhere.


Faith Walk is the house with the fancy gable window.


I don't think the other house has a name but it's a beauty too. This is the secret picture for garden bloggers: Gravel and grass, know what I mean?


There are single family millhouses too, one in pink, or is it salmon?


You visit the Dekalb Farmers Market right? So drive a bit further out on Ponce. Find the antique stores in cute little houses, turn left and find the green. There you are.


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Thanks,
Terry
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Pink houses and a church in Midtown, Druid Hills, Morningside, Decatur Druid Hills, and Scottdale

This pink house is on the corner of Commerce and Ponce in Decatur, Georgia across the street from the First Methodist Church.


This pink house in Morningside is pretty in pink on pink: the shutters and porch give it rosy cheeks.


This pink Italianate house in Druid Hills would be wonderful in any color.


Over in Midtown Atlanta, 9th street has 2 pink houses: a 2-story


and a bungalow


In Scottdale Georgia, maybe the most charming pink house:


The Emory Presbyterian Church's pnk education building.

Charm in Scottdale, Georgia

Scottdale is east of Decatur. It's not a real town but has it's charms. Here is the Alcove Drive Missionary Baptist Church. Until 1982 Scottdale was a southern mill town. Many of the mill houses still stand. In the center of the mill town is a beautiful green. This one is charming in every way. This one has the perfect fence: