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…

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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

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Alonzo Herndon Stadium, named for Alonzo Herndon, is an abandoned 15,011-seat stadium near 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 an indoor 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

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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 Castleberry Hill and Hotel Row.

Castleberry Hill

Neighborhood

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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

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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.

South Downtown

Neighborhood

South Downtown is a historic neighborhood of Downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The neighborhood was passed over during the redevelopment boom of the 1960s and 1970s that resulted in the demolition of much of Downtown's architecturally significant buildings, leaving many structures from the 1950's and earlier that retained their original facades and historic structural integrity.

Herndon Home

Categories: African-American museum, cultural institution, historic house museum, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: Fulton, Georgia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

33.75581° or 33° 45′ 21″ north

Longitude

-84.40678° or 84° 24′ 24″ west

Elevation

1,047 feet (319 metres)

Open location code

865QQH4V+87

OpenStreetMap ID

node 367915546

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

GeoNames ID

4200149

Wikidata ID

Q5742312

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In Other Languages

“Herndon Home” goes by many names.

French: “Herndon Home”

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