Herndon Home
The Herndon Home is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark at 587 University Place NW, in Atlanta, Georgia. An elegant Classical Revival mansion with Beaux Arts influences, it was the home of Alonzo Franklin Herndon, a rags-to-riches success…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Museum
- Description: archive organization in Atlanta, United States
- Also known as: “Alonzo F. Herndon Home”, “Herndon Home Museum”, and “The Alonzo F. and Norris B. Herndon Foundation, Inc.”
- Address: 587 University Place Northwest, Atlanta, GA 30314
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Herndon Stadium and State Farm Arena.
Herndon Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Alonzo Herndon Stadium, named for Alonzo Herndon, is an abandoned 15,011-seat stadium on the campus of Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Herndon Stadium is situated 650 feet west of Herndon Home.
State Farm Arena
Square
Photo: Hermann Luyken, CC0.
State Farm Arena is a multi-purpose arena located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The arena serves as the home venue for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association. State Farm Arena is situated 3,200 feet east of Herndon Home.
Georgia Aquarium
Public aquarium
Georgia Aquarium is a public aquarium in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The aquarium exhibits hundreds of species and thousands of animals across its seven major galleries, all of which reside in more than 11 million US gallons whale shark exhibit. Georgia Aquarium is situated 1 mile northeast of Herndon Home.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include English Avenue and Vine City and Castleberry Hill.
English Avenue and Vine City
Neighborhood
Photo: Keizers, CC BY-SA 3.0.
English Avenue and Vine City are two adjacent and closely linked neighborhoods of Atlanta, Georgia. Together the neighborhoods make up neighborhood planning unit L.
Castleberry Hill
Neighborhood
Photo: k1ng, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Castleberry Hill is a historic arts district and southwest district of Downtown Atlanta. It is a federally recognized historic district since 1985 and became a City of Atlanta Landmark District in 2006.
Hotel Row
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Hotel Row is both a National Register and locally listed historic district consisting of one block of early 20th-century commercial buildings, three to four stories high, located on Mitchell Street west of Forsyth Street in the South Downtown district of Atlanta.
Herndon Home
- Categories: African-American museum, cultural institution, historic house museum, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Fulton, Georgia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.75581° or 33° 45′ 21″ northLongitude
-84.40678° or 84° 24′ 24″ westElevation
1,047 feet (319 metres)Open location code
865QQH4V+87OpenStreetMap ID
node 367915546OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museum
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In Other Languages
“Herndon Home” goes by many names.
- French: “Herndon Home”
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