Brookhaven Homes

Neighborhood Information. Brookhaven, is a premiere neighborhood on the North end of Buckhead. Centrally located between Peachtree-Dunwoody Road and Peachtree Road along Windsor Parkway with easy access to I-85 and GA400. Only minutes away from the wonderful shops and restaurants of Lenox Mall and Phipp’s Plaza as well as downtown Atlanta. Homes in the Brookhaven neighborhood range in price from $300,000 to over $3,000,000.

Always expanding, there are several multimillion dollar developments that should positively affect the Brookhaven community. Two major developments are The Brookhaven Place and Brookhaven Village.

 When people think of Brookhaven, they think of the neighborhoods within it.

• The Park At Oglethorpe
• Oglethorpe Estates
• Brittany
• Silver Lake
• Lanier Court
• Buckhead Preserve
• Ashford Park
• Brookhaven Heights
• Pine Hills
• Brookhaven Fields
• Lynwood Park
• Drew Valley
• Ashford Glen
• Brookhaven Village
• Hillsdale

Each one of these neighborhoods have distinct styles of homes and people which is what makes Brookhaven so diverse.

According to Buckhead.net:

On the northern edge of Buckhead, Brookhaven developed as Atlanta's first country club neighborhood. It begins just north of the intersection of Peachtree Road and Peachtree-Dunwoody Road. Its boundaries generally are Peachtree Road on the east, Peachtree-Dunwoody on the west and south and Windsor Parkway on the north.

Now sometimes referred to as West Brookhaven, it is an enclave of large, elegant Tudor, Colonial, Georgian and English cottage homes in a lush landscape of broad, winding streets, densely wooded hollows and gently rolling hills with the Capital City Country Club as its heart.

In what was once Creek Indian land, the area's first white settler was Harris Goodwin, a South Carolinian who homesteaded a tract on both sides of what is now Peachtree Road in the early 1830s. Harris Goodwin later brought his father, Solomon, to the area. The Goodwin home and a small graveyard in which they are buried survive at 3931 Peachtree Road near the intersection of Dresden Drive.

The original log cabin on the Echota Indian Trail was expanded in the 1830s and 1840s into the present home. In 1864, it was a landmark for Federal troops closing in on Atlanta during the Civil War. Goodwin descendants still own the property. The home is the oldest extant house in DeKalb County. It is open to the public from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on the third Sunday of every month, and a family member is usually there to serve as a guide.

In 1910, 150 acres on the west side of Peachtree was bought by the Mechanical and Manufacturers Club for a golf club to be called Brookhaven. The course, which encircles a large lake and is surrounded by woods, was laid out by course architect Herbert Barker. The original clubhouse was replaced in the 1920s by the present French Provincial structure of mellow stone. Shortly after opening in 1911, the club became part of the downtown Capital City Club and became known as the Capital City Country Club.

In the 1980s, the area was placed on the National Register of Historic Places as the "first planned golf club community in Georgia."

Entertainment, from multiscreen movie complexes at Phipps Plaza, Tower Place and Lenox Square to the Atlanta History Center on West Paces Ferry Road, is easily accessible. By MARTA rail or by car, it's easy to reach Symphony Hall, the High Museum of Art, the Atlanta Ballet, the Fox Theatre and sports events of every description.

Information for Brookhaven - Atlanta zip code 30319*
Median household income - $62,253
Median home value - $353,200
Home Appreciation - 2.7%
High school graduates - 88.3%
4-year college degree - 35.9%
Graduate Degree - 19.7%

*Information for Brookhaven - Atlanta zip code 30341*
Note: These numbers reflect a much larger area surrounding Ashford Park
Median household income - $51,032
Median home value - $248,400
Home Appreciation - 4.5%
High school graduates - 76.7%
4-year college degree - 23.9%
Graduate Degree - 13.3%

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