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    Margaret Mitchell House

    3.7 (70 reviews)
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    Front of the house (opposite of where you enter)
    Kelly C.

    Great piece of history in a busy developed neighborhood. We went to the Atlanta History Center the day before which came with the Margaret Mitchell ticket (which is normally $13) so I would recommend going to the History Center to get this ticket for free! Both places are great to explore and very knowledgeable. We went on a Thursday morning at around 1 PM. They have free tours every thirty minutes and it is definitely worthwhile to go. It wasn't too busy when we went so we had a "private tour" which gave us the opportunity to ask our tour guide a lot of questions. I forgot her name, I think it was Jessica, but she was so sweet and knowledgeable and took the time to answer all of our questions (and we had a lot). The tour took probably 40 minutes but it was just the small room behind the gift store and the apartment where Margaret Mitchell spent most of her time writing Gone with the Wind, after she got married to her second husband. None of their furnitures are original but they did their best to recreate the structure of the apartment using the letters Margaret wrote. Also, there is a room upstairs about the premiere of Gone With The Wind in Georgia where you can actually hear Margaret speak. Overall, very knowledgeable and exciting to learn about the small 4'11 woman with big accomplishments! A must see!!

    Margaret Mitchell home
    Boon C.

    Margaret Mitchell House is located at the midtown. The is plenty restaurant nearby too if you decided to have some food after or before the visit. Parking will be a challenge in this area. The designated parking spots often full. Some of the spot was parked by the non ticket holder. Street side parking or nearby parking garage are available with fees. Slow minimum 1.5 hour if you want a detail visit. Margaret is the "Gone with The Wind" writer. You can see her book got award Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She is in the movie set when filming the "Gone with The Wind". You can see the movie set with dress design and movie set design. This is the place when she wrote her novel. She was working at Atlanta Journal and she already was a talented writer. This civil war novel has attracted young and old and now is a movie that rerun in the regular TV channel as a classic. I would visit the Atlanta Historic Center first and you will get the ticket there part of the whole package that included in the historic center admission.

    The house from the outside
    Chelsea E.

    Enjoyed my experience here at the Margaret Mitchell House. You could honestly stay here for hours given the amount of information they have posted. From seeing what Atlanta was like back in the 1920's; to Margaret Mitchell's entire life; the hype around the casting and making of the GWTW movie. You will find it all here! The "house" part itself is really just the first floor apartment where Margaret and her husband lived. She didn't actually live in the entire house. I appreciate that they recreated the entire apartment with 1930's decor. Although the items were not owned by Margaret, the look and feel bring the observer into the aesthetic of where Margaret penned her famous novel. I find it funny that she referred to this apartment as "The Dump" because I found it to be rather pleasant! Although I have to remember that it's located in hip Midtown Atlanta....might not have been the best area 90 years ago. If you have time, be sure to head into the separate building across the backyard to watch part of the documentary on how the GWTW film was made. I particularly loved the original casting footage with various Hollywood stars at the time. Easy to see why some of them didn't get cast (no offense, Lana Turner). I used to love old Hollywood films and I still carry that nostalgia with me, so this was probably my favorite part of the museum. I also love the upstairs where they document what it was like in Atlanta the night of the film premiere. Such a special night for this city, I'm sure! I loved all the pictures, news reels, and newspaper articles. Would have been crazy to live there back in 1939 and see the Hollywood elite descend upon the city. I loved the seating chart which showed various celebs. Very cool! All in all, for $13 if you at all enjoy the Gone With the Wind book or film (I read the book when I was 12 and have seen the move countless times), then you should check this museum out. A nice little gem in Midtown ATL!

    Jean Y.

    Visiting dead writer's home is my thing. One of my things, I could say. I was Emily Dickinson's, Emerson's, Thoreau's Walden Pond, etc. Margaret Mitchell's house was well kept house. She lived in the down stair apartment and wrote Gone with the Wind here. Docent lady was so nice. I walked through second floor, back yard & other house they had Gone With the Wind movie things. For me the Remington typewriter next to 2 windows was most impressive. Worth to visit.

    Jessica S.

    I didn't take the tour but I did stop to take a look of the outside. It's a little piece of history in the middle of a fast developing world, and will someday be long forgotten. Margaret Mitchell and her husband, John Marsh, moved into Apartment No. 1 in 1925, when the building was known as the Crescent Apartments. This is the location where she wrote the Pulitzer-Prize winning book, Gone With the Wind. She began her career working as a journalist, using the name of Peggy Mitchell for the "Atlanta Journal" as a feature writer. That same year, she married Berrien Kinnard Upshaw. The marriage lasted only a few months, but the couple was not officially divorced until 1924. In 1925, Mitchell married John Marsh, and shocked Atlanta society by keeping her own name, "Margaret Mitchell" for professional purposes. (In private life, she was known as Peggy Marsh.) It took her ten years to write "Gone With The Wind," then titled "Tomorrow is Another Day." This apartment, built in 1899 by Cornelius J. Sheehan, was the single-family home on fashionable Peachtree Street was converted into a ten-unit apartment building in 1919. Unfortunately, the building's owner became over-extended, and it was sold at auction in 1926. The next owner, too, was driven to bankruptcy when the stock market crashed in 1929. Maintenance declined, contributing to Mitchell's characterization of their apartment as "the Dump." By the fall of 1931, there were only two occupied apartments in the building, one of which belonged to the Marshes, but they, too, moved to a larger apartment a few blocks away in the spring of 1932. Margaret, on her way to see The Canterberry Tales at the Atlanta Women's Club August 11, 1949, on Peachtree Street, was hit by an off duty taxi drive who rounded the blind curve and hit her at 35 to 50 miles per hour, in a 25mph zone. She died from brain damage at Grady Memorial Hospital in downtown Atlanta which was the same hospital that "Supermodel" Nikki Taylor was after her big car crash. Maggie was buried in the famous Oakland Cemetery.

    Nice tour. Margaret Mitchell lived in an apt on the ground floor.
    Charles S.

    I was all set not to like the Margaret Mitchell House and let my inner grump emerge. The History Center last weekend was a disappointment, and the History Center runs MM house. The last couple of historical houses I visited were pretty deadly, and MM seemed to personify the weird, ahistorical Lost Cause version of Southern history. Y'all know it: the Civil War wasn't about slavery, but the "Southern Way of Life." Complete hooey. Instead MM house was fun. MM + hub lived in one of the ten apartments in the building. Very modestly. Docent Annie -- an Agnes Scott grad -- did a great job making Mitchell interesting without getting bogged down in worshipfully-told details. All the photos and explanatory material were helpful. And the front porch of the house is worth a sit. Weird factoids: 1. Mitchell got blackballed by the la-dee-dah Junior League for dancing a scandalous tango at her debutante ball. Or maybe it was that she danced the tango scandalously. In any case they wouldn't let her in with the swells. 2. The choir from Ebenezer Baptist Church sang at one of the balls at the 1939 premiere of Gone with the Wind dressed as slaves!!! One of the kids in the choir was Martin Luther King Jr. The framed photo is on a wall and MLK is on the front row. I am not making this up. 3. Hattie McDowell, who won an Academy Award as best supporting actress for her performance in GWTW, skipped the movie premiere since segregation was still king in Atlanta in 1939 and she had no intention of coming to Atlanta to be treated as a 2nd class citizen. 4. In the first draft of the book, the protagonist was named 'Pansy.' Pansy!!! The publisher suggested switching to Scarlett. Good call.

    This would be the perfect place to sell t-shirts w the movie poster(s) design on them.  Apparently that idea never occurred to anybody.
    LoveMyBabies S.

    Very nice museum but how they could leave Butterfly McQueen out of their fact spillage? A famous atheist obviously ignored. The cat shirt was stupid. This would have been the ideal place to sell t-shirts with gwtw movie poster designs on them. This is like visiting cocoa beach and there are no 'i dream of Jeannie' t-shirts. I don't get it.

    Margaret Mitchell House: her unit was on the main floor left side
    David M.

    As the old saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If you watched the movie, if you read the book, if you did both, multiple times, and you liked it, you will like what you see and learn by visiting the Margaret Mitchell House! After having watched the movie many times, I finally dove in and read the book, all of it! To me, the movie followed the book very closely. But I learned so much that was left out of an already very long movie and it definitely added to the overall experience. When we decided to visit the Margaret Mitchell House on one of our trips to Atlanta, we were not expecting (as was mentioned by another reviewer) that Ms. Mitchell only was renting one apartment of the house. But, once we got over that and started on the tour, we learned her fascinating story of how she wrote GWTW while recovering from an accident and after she had read all of the library books of interest to her. For the rest of the story, take the tour... Another bit of information that was quite interesting was that the unit was furnished close to how it was when she lived there. This was able to be done because Margaret wrote often to friends and was very descriptive about how she had furnished the apartment. Because many of those letters survived, they were used as a reference guide to find period pieces that were historically accurate. So if you are an avid fan of GWTW, and even if you are not, a visit to the Margaret Mitchell House will not disappoint.

    Vincent V.

    Ironically, this place has burned down twice as many times as Atlanta in the Civil War. Somewhere, Margaret Mitchell is looking at a scoreboard and laughing. The $12 ticket for a hour long tour is a bit steep. You've either got to really, really love Gone With the Wind or be adamant about seeing every museum in the city to make this place a priority. The recreation of the apartment where Mitchell lived while writing GWTW is nice, but it's a recreation and feels brand new. The movie exhibits and memorabilia are cool, but you can finish looking at it all pretty quickly. I like the movie and the book, but not to the point to feel like it was worth my time and money to visit again.

    Arlene M.

    I loved the movie so I did extensive research before I came here. The Margaret Mitchell house is an extension of the Atlanta History Center. First, if you purchase a ticket to the history center you get free admission to this museum within 9 days. Likewise, if you visit this museum first with your Atlanta history center ticket then they will give you a free voucher to use for the history center for use in 9 days. The house is a reconverted 10 bedroom apartment. Margaret Mitchell lived in apt #1. I was given a tour of the apartment who explained that all the pieces of furniture are not original but replicas of what was originally there. She explained the life and times of Margaret Mitchell and her tragic death. You may take pictures and ask questions. A separate building houses facts about Gone with the Wind. Most notable is the restored facade of Tara and the famous Scarlett painting that hung in the mansion whiere Rhett threw his glass at in a moment of anger. It also holds story boards that would later depict some of the movie scenes. Little known facts about the movie and cast are revealed There is a continuous showing of the making of Gone with the Wind along with a book that has "scenes" if you want to pretend to act out certain parts. Behind the main gallery is a separate gallery devoted to the Atlanta premiere at Loew's Grand theater. The gift shop has a nice variety of merchandise along with books including Gone with the Wind. Upon purchase of any book they will emboss your book for free with their stamp. Makes a great gift or souvenir of your visit. Don't look for anything there on the famous "curtain" dress. The buyer was present during my visit and said those items are hard to come by. If you love Gone with the Wind then you certainly will love this place along with the fact that you can get two museums for the price of one.

    The doors from Tara
    Chris C.

    At $13 a person, admission is pretty steep. If you're into GWTW, Margaret Mitchell, and/or Southern history from the turn of the century, it's an interesting (albeit expensive) museum. If not, you'd be better off elsewhere. PROS: -- Doorway and paintings from Tara. -- Guide provided a thorough background and history of Margaret Mitchell and the time in which she lived. CONS: -- Museum cannot be visited without a tour. -- While the online photos of the house show a very large edifice, Mitchell's apartment consists of just three small rooms with no original furniture (although it is furnished to the period). -- Expensive for what was about a 30 minute tour.

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