Swan House: A Destination in "Gone With the Wind Atlanta" Tour from Interlude Tours of Indianapolis
Just a few months from now, we’re going to be taking a spectacular tour down South to relive Gone With the Wind!
Gone With the Wind Atlanta (click here for itinerary)
March 29-April 4, 2010 (7 days, 6 nights)
- Guaranteed departure (plan in confidence!)
- Escorted vacation (0% fuss, 100% vacation!)
- Tour for active adults (share a great experience!)
- Includes home pickup and return (for clients in Marion and adjacent counties)
Previous blog post about this tour: Callaway Gardens
One of the many incredible locations you’ll visit on your tour is Swan House, a magnificent mansion in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta. According to Wikipedia,
Swan House was built in 1928 for Edward and Emily Inman in Atlanta, Georgia. The Inmans had accumulated wealth from cotton brokerage and investments on transportation, banking and real estate. The Inmans commissioned the Atlanta architectural firm of Hentz, Reid and Adler to design a new house in on 28 acres in Buckhead, a northern Atlanta neighborhood. The new mansion’s design was executed by Philip Trammell Shutze, combining Renaissance revival styles with a Classical approach on the main facade. The rear facade is less formal, and is sited at the top of a small hill with terraced gardens and a fountain cascading down the hillside. A recurring motif are sculpted or painted swans throughout the house and grounds.
Edward Inman died in 1931, but Emily collected her family into the house and lived there until 1965. The house and grounds were acquired by the Atlanta Historical Society in 1966. The house is operated as part of the Atlanta History Center and is maintained as a 1920s and 1930s historic house museum, with many of the Inmans’ original furnishings.
The Atlanta History Center page on Swan House has lots of great pictures, as well as this to say:
Audio and guided tours of Swan House allow visitors to explore the many rooms of this beautifully restored historic home including the foyer, breakfast room and hall, library, living room, dining room, kitchen, butler’s pantry, Mrs. Inman’s bedroom and bathroom, grandchildren’s bedroom, guest bedroom, and Mr. Inman’s bedroom.
Additionally, a stroll around the Swan House grounds provides many breathtaking views complete with gardens and fountains.
The Swan House is an excellent example of the Second Renaissance Revival style and represents the architectural and decorative tastes of affluent citizens in the late 1920s. Of the two impressive exterior facades of Swan House, the west facade facing Andrews Drive that is the rear of the house is the more impressive of the two, being strictly Italian in derivation, although not imitative of any one architectural monument of the past. Symmetrical in every way, the facade has a central doorway at the top of a double winding staircase. Heavily framed, the door is topped by a segmented pediment supported on scroll brackets with sculptural decoration at its apex. The east facade serves as the main entrance and is English Palladian in origin. With its four-columned portico, it reflects the characteristic severity of the main entrances to this style of house.
Photo by Evilarry; used with permission.
–Matt
The Interlude Tours Blog Team
•For immediate service, please call (317) 913-0387 or email us
•Share your Interlude stories and photos on this blog
•Sign up for our email newsletter
•RSS this blog
Tags: gone with the wind theme tour, gone with the wind vacation
