Margaret Mitchell House
The brick Tudor on Crescent Avenue was the Crescent Apartments when Margaret Mitchell and her husband took a cramped ground-floor unit she dubbed "The Dump," and it was there, between 1925 and 1932, that she wrote most of Gone with the Wind. The building survived an improbable string of arson fires — a minor blaze in the early 1980s, a "sophisticated arson" that gutted much of it in September 1994, and one final torching in May 1996, just forty days before the Olympic opening ceremonies — before reopening as a museum. The fires only deepened a ghost tradition already attached to the house: a rumored 1918 murder on the third floor, a Halloween 1977 séance held upstairs to summon "Peggy" Mitchell's spirit, and a resident who described a sudden chill and "a frightening presence" in the rooms. Caretakers have long passed down quieter signs as well — balcony doors found standing open after being locked for the night, small objects shifted from where they were left — and one account of a psychic reading concluded that Mitchell lingered still, displeased that people spoke of her as though she were dead.
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