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 there, between 1925 and 1932, she wrote most of Gone with the Wind. The building survived an improbable run of arson — a small blaze in the early 1980s, a "sophisticated arson" that gutted much of it in September 1994, and a final torching in May 1996, forty days before the Olympic opening ceremonies — before reopening as a museum.
The fires only deepened older ghost lore: a rumored 1918 third-floor murder, a Halloween 1977 séance to summon "Peggy" Mitchell, balcony doors found open after being locked, small objects shifted. One psychic reading concluded Mitchell lingers, displeased that people speak of her as though she were dead.
📍 979 Crescent Avenue NE, Atlanta, GA 30309, Atlanta, GA · Get directions