BRIARCLIFF MANOR IN GEORGIA
As soon as host to lush culture parties, the wealthy owner’s ‘unique family pets’, which wandered its grounds, as well as even a murder enigma, this boarded-up Georgian Resurgence mansion lies crumbling and also abandoned on Emory University’s Briarcliff School in Georgia. Developed in between 1920 as well as 1922 for eccentric Coca-Cola heir Asa ‘Buddy’ Griggs Candler Jr, it is currently a historic gold mine with a remarkable tale to inform. Allow’s check out.
40 ACRES OF FAIRYLAND
Journalism was given a tour of the new manor upon conclusion in 1922, calling it ’40 acres of fairyland’. Outdoors, an elaborate greenhouse still stands among the when elegantly designed yards where Candler Jr held swimming pool celebrations and also suppers. Over the years he updated the property a number of times including a golf links, a laundry and the aforementioned zoo, which eventually ended up being a public pool, full with Coca-Cola stand.
