Garden Hills
Beautiful Garden Hills Since 1925 chronicles the one hundred-year history of one of Atlanta’s most attractively landscaped neighborhoods, nestled within the famed Buckhead district. Discover its first inhabitants, from the Muskogee to its early residents. Meet founder Phillips Campbell McDuffie, whose impressive development plans included a state-of-the-art pool, stables, and riding club. Enjoy an inside peek […]
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
The early morning of September 24, 2024, ushered in a new era of pediatric healthcare in Atlanta, the Southeast, and beyond with the opening of the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s new Arthur M. Blank Hospital. The $2.2 billion state-of-the-art pediatric hospital and North Druid Hills campus are among the most advanced in the world, with […]
Cleveland Electric
Today, Cleveland Electric Company has evolved into an enormous enterprise offering innovative and comprehensive electrical and mechanical construction services of the highest quality across a multitude of industrial and commercial market sectors, employing more than one thousand employees. As the company celebrates its one-hundredth year, the family that started it all has grown, but still […]
Shepherd Center
Celebrating 50 years, Shepherd Center continues to live its values of family, innovation, expertise, heart, and support. Pursuing Possible: The Campaign for Shepherd Center, the most ambitious fundraising effort in the hospital’s history, would support the plans outlined in Vision 2025 to expand beds, outpatient clinics, and services not covered by insurance, add more family […]
Oxford College at Emory
In this most recent book about Oxford, Emory alumnus and Oxford native Erik Oliver tells the story of Emory’s bold beginning and the evolution of Oxford College through the campus and town buildings and landscapes. Through early sources, he re-creates long-lost and largely forgotten edifices, gives treatment of building campaigns and architectural styles, and describes […]
The Enduring Legacy of James Edgar Paullin, MD
This book focuses on the legacy of James Edgar Paullin, MD, and the leaders in medicine he mentored, especially Henry Clifford Sauls and William Carter Smith. Both men, like Paullin, were dedicated to the Emory University School of Medicine and taught at a time when the young institution depended on volunteers from the community. Like […]
Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church
The birth of Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church was, to say the least, difficult. Atlanta was trying to rebuild itself in the wake of the Civil War and the city was in ruins. From this dismal scene emerged Mary Ellen “Nellie” Peters, an Episcopalian seeking to do charity work for orphans and the poor, who were […]
Emory School of Medicine
This book traces the distinguished history of the Emory University School of Medicine from its inception to the current day and highlights the intellect, strength, endurance, and hard work of the many who planned and built an internationally renowned health-sciences center. From its earliest days as a small “practitioner’s school” struggling to stay afloat, the […]
Hemophilia of Georgia
It Takes More than Medicine—Hemophilia of Georgia is the story of the remarkable success of Hemophilia of Georgia has its roots in the homes of thousands of people living with a bleeding disorder over the years. However, the story is also found in research laboratories, the hallways of the Georgia statehouse, clinical services, pharmacy services, […]
Atlanta History Center
Philip Trammell Shutze, one Atlanta’s foremost twentieth-century architects, followed the Classical tradition in art and architecture from his hometown in Georgia to Rome, Italy—and stops in between. Shutze demonstrated that interest in the hundreds of residential and commercial works he designed throughout the Southeast and in the furniture, porcelain, pottery, art, and decorations he chose […]