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 Kirkwood's
largest homes were built during the community's early years of development
in the Queen Anne, East Lake, Arts and Crafts and Victorian Folk styles,
primarily along Howard St. between Howard and College Avenue and along
Kirkwood Road just north of Hosea Williams Drive. Additional fine
larger homes may be found in the Sutherland Terrace subdivision built
on the site of the General John B. Gordon estate along Gordon Avenue,
Oxford Avenue, and Sutherland Terrace just north of DeKalb Avenue.
Although originally part of the Kirkwood, the 1970-era MARTA east
rail line severed Sutherland Terrace permanently from the larger Kirkwood
community to the south and as a result, Sutherland Terrace is usually
now associated more with the Lake Claire neighborhood than with Kirkwood.
 As
architectural styles changed and evolved following the Kirkwood community's
first few decades of growth, we begin to see the craftsman-style two-story
American Foursquare homes and the crafts bungalows that today are
perhaps the most recognizable features of an Atlanta streetcar suburb
community. From the 1920's through the close of the 1930's, Kirkwood
would continue to experience great popularity as a suburb convenient
ot both Atlanta and Decatur. The neighborhood continued to grow for
the thirty years following this period, experiencing another surge
in development following the second world war with the development
of smaller tract houses typical of that period. |
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