Herndon Home Museum

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587 University Pl NW
Atlanta, GA 30314 33.7555 -84.4072

Neighborhoods: Northwest, Northwest, Vine City

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Herndon Home Museum

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The Scene
The white-columned mansion memorializes the African-American family's remarkable rise from slavery to wealth and leadership. Built in 1910 by Alonzo Franklin Herndon, founder of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, and his wife Adrienne McNeil, a teacher at Atlanta University, the 15-room house holds a significant place in African-American history. Herndon, Atlanta's first black millionaire, was a driving force behind minority entrepreneurship in the early 1900s.

The Draw
The landmark shares a "Mansion to Mansion Passport" with Rhodes Hall. Visitors to both historic sites learn how much Alonzo Herndon and Amos Rhodes had in common. One black, one white, the two made it rich at the same time in separate worlds only five miles apart. While the Herndon Home was designed in a Classical Revival style, Rhodes built a wacky Romanesque castle. Inside, there are surprising similarities: French parlors, open floor plans, and a mix of arts and crafts, art nouveau and renaissance styles.

Anonymous

January 22, 2008

This is a museum that most don't know of. It is a great place to take students for inspiration. To know that the Herndon's motivated themselves and did well for themselves when few Afro-Americans were.

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Tours of the home run Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10am to 4pm, on the hour.

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587 University Pl NW
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