Inman Park

Inman Park was Atlanta’s first planned suburb, laid out by Joel Hurt in 1890 with curving streets, deliberate landscaping, and explicit garden-city principles. The neighborhood declined through the mid-century, then was systematically restored starting in the 1970s by a generation of new residents who kept the Victorian houses intact. Today it sits as one of the most intact late-19th-century streetscapes in the South.

The Inman Park Festival and Tour of Homes (last weekend of April) closes the streets and is one of the largest single-neighborhood events in the city. Two Beltline-adjacent edges put the neighborhood firmly inside the active eastside trail.

“Inman Park is where you go when you want the Victorians without the OTP commute. The neighborhood association is real, the porches are deep, and the festival weekend is genuinely the best in the city.”
Drew Jackson, partner since 2016

What makes it different

The Victorians. No other intown neighborhood has Inman Park’s concentration of large, original, restored Victorian houses. Most are designated contributing structures inside the Historic District.

The Beltline connection. Inman Park has two active Beltline access points (Krog Street and Wylie). The southeast corner of the neighborhood has been the highest-pressure renovation block in the city since 2018.

What to watch

Renovation history matters. Many Inman Park Victorians have been renovated 2 or 3 times since 1980. Each renovation cycle adds and subtracts. Always pull the building department records before contract.