About Garden Hills

Garden Hills is a large urban forest neighborhood lying in the heart of Buckhead between Peachtree and Piedmont roads, bordered on the north by Pharr Road and on the south by Lindbergh Drive.

Garden Hills captures the essence of gracious urban living, featuring winding streets lined with mature hardwood trees, an imposing mix of early 20th century homes, pocket parks, landscaped traffic islands, and a neighborhood pool and recreation center – all convenient to shopping, dining, transportation, schools, and churches in the heart of Atlanta’s Buckhead district.  The oldest streets were given historic district status in 1987.

Eclectic homes characterize the neighborhood, with houses ranging from Georgian, Tudor and Spanish Revival to Craftsman in the older sections. Streets south of East Wesley, developed after the Second World War, are predominately ranches. There is also a scattering of later style homes throughout.

Today, the Garden Hills neighborhood comprises over 750 single-family homes plus some multi family units on the streets near the commercial and institutional properties. When most of these homes were built, the land was part of unincorporated Fulton County. The buildings housing the Atlanta International School were built in the early 1930s as North Fulton High School. In those days, our neighborhood was in the unincorporated northern part of the county. In 1952, Garden Hills was annexed, and has been part of the City of Atlanta since.

In addition to the Atlanta International School, we are also home to Garden Hills Elementary School (K-5) – built in the 1940s – and the K-8 Christ the King School (Catholic) on East Wesley Road.

Garden Hills is a great place to live because so many pitch in and work at keeping a vital community spirit alive. Much of the appeal of Garden Hills stems from the way it has adapted with the changing times, while retaining the charm of a bygone age with classic homes, old growth trees and quiet streets, all in close proximity to a bustling urban landscape and the amenities of city life.