Margaret Mitchell House

The Margaret Mitchell House features guided tours of the apartment where Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone With the Wind, a Gone With the Wind movie exhibition, an exhibition showcasing the life and times of one of America’s most famous authors, and the Margaret Mitchell gift shop.

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    (404) 249-7015

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    margaretmitchellhouse.com

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990 Peachtree St NE Atlanta , GA 30309 United States

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Summer 💞

Take the guided tour of the first floor, if possible. The second floor also has great photos and films . There is a documentary of the film 's making that loops for 2 hours. Free parking avail.

Harumi U

This is called house but technically an apartment building and a restored one. Nevertheless visiting here is a great way to pay a respect to one of the most well known novels in the world!

Aubrey Ramon

A must see when downtown for its historical value to the city both economically & socially. Reminds Atlanta how far we've come & how much further we have to go. Take a tour & enjoy the energy.

Travel + Leisure

Don’t miss the adjacent Gone with the Wind Museum , filled with memorabilia from the movie , including Scarlett's bengaline honeymoon gown and the front door to Tara. Read more

Rashida Amahtullah

biblical+arab and Native American art..Valued at 20,000.00 back in 1985. It is documented in Hartford Court on Washington street She is Ambassador for the arts registered in D.C.

HISTORY

The house was known as the Crescent Apartments when she & her husband lived here from 1925 to 1932. While living here, she wrote the bulk of her Pulitzer prize-winning novel , Gone With The Wind.

Atlanta

Discover the history and legacy behind one of the world's most beloved novels through the Gone with the Wind Trail in and around Atlanta. See www.gwtwtrail.com for more information.

Atlanta

The House offers tours , a museum and museum shop, as well as a literature series that showcases Southern authors . MMH often hosts book signings. It's usually warm inside, dress light! Read more

B98.5

The finale of 2011 Amazing Race TV show was filmed here. The team members had to complete an assignment on an old fashioned typewriter.

Saida Latigue

Quaint & neat, wonderful staff and volunteers - - they really treat you as family

Ebrahim Bandookwala

Small museum about the author and the movie gone with the wind.

Smithsonian Channel

Now a museum dedicated to her life and work, Mitchell found her apartment here far from ideal during the writing of “Gone with the Wind.” She called it “the Dump .” (From Aerial America) Read more

Fresh

The furniture isn’t from MM

Michelle Kreger

It was an incredible place to tour & we learned so much!

Rashida Amahtullah

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_is_Vilmadinah_Gharibbiblical+arab and Native American art..Valued at 20,000.00 back in 1985. with the church of god and christ.

william veronda

This very small apartment is not even historically restored. Unless you have plenty of time in Atlanta, you should visit more interesting attractions .

Scoutmob

"Having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late." - Anne Edwards, biographer

Scoutmob

Author Margaret Mitchell was killed in 1949 crossing Peachtree Street as a pedestrian at the intersection with 13th Street.

Lauren

This Tudor Revival building is where Margaret Mitchell lived and wrote her Pulitzer-Prize winning book "Gone With the Wind."

Explore Georgia

This Tudor Revival building is where Margaret Mitchell lived and wrote her Pulitzer-Prize winning book "Gone With the Wind."

Rashida Amahtullah

The largest collections of Bible Characters of color was apart of a lawsuit, in 1980

Regina Lindsey

First time check ins get 2$ off

Oakland Cemetery

Now that you have seen where she lived and did a lot of her writing, go visit her final resting place at Oakland Cemetery . Read more

savoryexposure.com

Smoothie shop Arden's Garden is hiding on the Peachtree Place side of the building

Richard Rhodes

Great lecturer

Michi Ashley

great for Atlanta and Mitchell enthusiasts alike. very informative.

Bob 💲☎🍒Ⓜ♒ M

What a wonderful woman she was

Mario Diaz

Gone with the wind writer's lived here.

LisaShakira ♥

Luv it :-)

ThE BlacK EyeD PeaS FanS

hello all people

Will Blevins

Now called the dump

Mario Diaz

Aquí vivió la escritora del libro lo que el viento se llevó. Un poco caro a mi parecer.

Miguel Pizani

Lo que el viento se llevo.. la casa de la escritora esta intacta

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