1260 Briarcliff Rd., NE, Atlanta, Georgia. County/parish: De Kalb.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 04, 1988. NRIS 88001167.
2 contributing buildings. 2 contributing sites. 6 contributing structures.Also known as:
Briarcliff was the mansion and estate of Asa Griggs "Buddie" Candler Jr. (1880–1953), and is now the Briarcliff Campus of Emory University. The estate was built in 1922 on 42 acres on Williams Mill Road, now Briarcliff Road in Druid Hills near Atlanta. Williams Mill Road would be renamed Briarcliff Road in the 1920s after the estate that Asa Jr. would build there. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
Asa Jr. was the eccentric son of Asa Griggs Candler, co-founder of Coca-Cola. Candler Jr. helped build his father's business into an empire. He later became a real-estate developer, opening the Briarcliff Hotel at the corner of Ponce de Leon Avenue and N. Highland Ave. in Atlanta's Virginia Highland neighborhood.
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