Margaret Mitchell House and Museum

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Crescent Apartments (Margaret Mitchell House)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Atlanta Landmark Building
Margaret Mitchell House
Location	Atlanta, Georgia
Coordinates	33°46′53.02″N 84°23′4.62″W / 33.7813944°N 84.3846167°W / 33.7813944; -84.3846167
Built	1899
Architect	Denning, Mr.
Architectural style	Tudor Revival
NRHP reference No.	96000649[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	June 21, 1996
Designated ALB	October 23, 1989

The Margaret Mitchell House is a historic house museum located in Atlanta, Georgia. The structure was the home of author Margaret Mitchell in the early 20th century. It is located in Midtown, at 979 Crescent Avenue. Constructed by Cornelius J. Sheehan as a single-family residence in a then-fashionable section of residential Peachtree Street, the building's original address was 806 Peachtree Street. The house was known as the Crescent Apartments when Mitchell and her husband lived in Apt. 1 on the ground floor from 1925 to 1932. While living there, Mitchell wrote the bulk of her Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 novel, Gone with the Wind.^[2]

The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is also designated as a historic building by the City of Atlanta.

This house serves as the heart of Atlanta History Center's Midtown Campus and it houses permanent exhibitions that focus on various topics surrounding the building's history.^[3]