Take in a touring musical or concert at the Fox Theatre, get cultured (with beer) at the New American Shakespeare Tavern. Across the street is MODA - the Museum of Design Atlanta. It’s part of the Woodruff Arts Center, also home to the Alliance Theatre, the biggest professional theater in the South, and the world-famous Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Explore the High Museum of Art, itself is a work of art with a curving white exterior and eye-pleasing lines. If Atlanta has a cultural district, this is it. Families, couples and singles, straight and gay, are all part of a population that more than doubled in the past decade.ĬHECK IT OUT. Economic resurgence began with the construction of Colony Square in the 1970s. The area declined after World War II and homes were turned into boarding houses and apartments. In the early 1900s, the farms, fields and woods south of the park became residential. To the north was the farm that eventually became Piedmont Park. A century earlier, “Midtown” was mostly a line of mansions along Peachtree Street. Fifty years ago, the area between 10th and 14th streets was the core of Atlanta’s counterculture, the largest hippie district in the South, full of headshops and coffeehouses. Others commute here for work - from government employees to business execs to the waitstaff of that nearby restaurant. For many people, it’s also home - whether that home is a high-rise condo, a street-level apartment or a Queen Anne Victorian. Midtown is Atlanta’s heart, a place known for good food, great theater and exuberant nightlife. It’s the Midtown mix, where urban chic meets Southern genteel meets a bit of bawdy. ĪS YOU CRUISE UP PEACHTREE STREET from North Avenue, the scenery unfolds: a gleaming skyscraper followed by a neoclassical hotel followed by a little house-that-became-a-restaurant. Have a spot in yours we should know about? Please email us at. Editor’s note: With this piece, Encore Atlanta begins a monthly spotlight on metro neighborhoods.
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