The Neighborhood of Ansley On The Park
Ansley Park is Atlanta’s premier intown neighborhood. Founded in 1904, this
vibrant neighborhood is nestled between world famous Peachtree Street,
between the Woodruff Arts Center which houses the High Museum of Art, the
Atlanta Symphony and the Alliance Theater and Piedmont Road, at Piedmont
Park, Atlanta’s Central Park. Piedmont Park includes green spaces, playing
fields, a lake, aquatic center tennis center, walking and jogging trails
and the Atlanta Botanical Gardens.
Located within Ansley Park are several large parks, some with play grounds,
others with tennis courts and all with large green spaces.
Within and immediately adjacent to Ansley Park are Atlanta’s two oldest
private clubs, the Ansley Golf Club and the Piedmont Driving Club. Both
clubs have swim and tennis facilities and club houses with dining at their
intown facilities. The Ansley Golf Club also has a nine hole course within
Ansley Park. Both clubs have eighteen hole golf courses and club houses in
another metro location.
Ansley Park has an active civic association which hosts neighborhood dining
clubs, book clubs, lectures, street dances, barbecues and other functions.
There is an active Ansley Park Garden Club and numerous informal social
groups such as a lady’s bunco group.
Ansley Park homes range between $400,000. and $5,000,000. The neighborhood
ranges from single family residences to apartments to condominiums. The
styles include Craftsmen Cottages, Georgian, Mediterranean, Antebellum,
Dutch Colonial and many others.
Ansley Park is centrally located. It is fifteen minutes from Emory
University, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology and
the Atlanta University Complex. It is located within twenty minutes of all
of the professional sports venues and performing arts theaters. The
neighborhood is within thirty minutes of the Atlanta’s Jackson Hartsfield
International Airport.
The neighborhood is immediately adjacent to the Woodruff Arts Center,
Piedmont Park and the Botanical Gardens and is within walking distance of
restaurants, clubs and shopping.
For additional information refer to the Ansley Civic Association Website:
www.ansleypark.org
and other websites listed under "Additional Websites of Interest".
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Date last modified: July 23, 2006