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    • 1912-1920 The Farm Years
    • 1920s The Briarcliff Mansion Years pt 1
    • 1930s The Briarcliff Mansion Years pt 2
    • 1946-1952 The Declining Years
    • 1953 The Death of Buddie Candler
  • Homes/
    • Hartwell, GA
    • Fourth Ward and Inman Park
    • Briarcliff Farm and Mansion
    • Briarcliff Hotel and Apartments
  • Interests/
    • Bicycling
    • Automobiles
    • Athletics
    • Music Hall & Organ
    • Magic
    • Real Estate
    • Sea Travel
    • Airplanes
  • The Atlanta Speedway/
    • The Birth of the Atlanta Speedway
    • The Legend of the Merry Widow
    • Trouble at the Track
    • The Fall of the Atlanta Speedway
    • The Garage Fire of 1911
    • Candler Field Becomes Hartsfield Airport
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    • The Great Mule Mart Drama
    • Murder at the Mansion
    • The Ice Storm of 1905
    • Landrum Anderson
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Asa's Briarcliff

The story of Asa Candler, Jr., Atlanta's forgotten son.

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    • 1900-1906 Mill, Marriage & Family
    • 1907-1911 Young Professional
    • 1912-1920 The Farm Years
    • 1920s The Briarcliff Mansion Years pt 1
    • 1930s The Briarcliff Mansion Years pt 2
    • 1946-1952 The Declining Years
    • 1953 The Death of Buddie Candler
  • Homes/
    • Hartwell, GA
    • Fourth Ward and Inman Park
    • Briarcliff Farm and Mansion
    • Briarcliff Hotel and Apartments
  • Interests/
    • Bicycling
    • Automobiles
    • Athletics
    • Music Hall & Organ
    • Magic
    • Real Estate
    • Sea Travel
    • Airplanes
  • The Atlanta Speedway/
    • The Birth of the Atlanta Speedway
    • The Legend of the Merry Widow
    • Trouble at the Track
    • The Fall of the Atlanta Speedway
    • The Garage Fire of 1911
    • Candler Field Becomes Hartsfield Airport
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    • The Great Mule Mart Drama
    • Murder at the Mansion
    • The Ice Storm of 1905
    • Landrum Anderson
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May 23, 2022

Presentation: From Racetrack to Runway

May 23, 2022/ S.H. Butler

In March of this year I presented a deck titled “From Racetrack to Runway: How the Coca-Cola Candlers gave Atlanta its Airport” at the Georgia State Archives. Part of their Lunch and Learn series, the session was recorded and published to their YouTube channel. If you’d like to watch it, you can find it here:

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May 23, 2022/ S.H. Butler/ Comment /Source

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    • 1907-1911 Young Professional
    • 1912-1920 The Farm Years
    • 1920s The Briarcliff Mansion Years pt 1
    • 1930s The Briarcliff Mansion Years pt 2
    • 1946-1952 The Declining Years
    • 1953 The Death of Buddie Candler
  • Homes/
    • Hartwell, GA
    • Fourth Ward and Inman Park
    • Briarcliff Farm and Mansion
    • Briarcliff Hotel and Apartments
  • Interests/
    • Bicycling
    • Automobiles
    • Athletics
    • Music Hall & Organ
    • Magic
    • Real Estate
    • Sea Travel
    • Airplanes
  • The Atlanta Speedway/
    • The Birth of the Atlanta Speedway
    • The Legend of the Merry Widow
    • Trouble at the Track
    • The Fall of the Atlanta Speedway
    • The Garage Fire of 1911
    • Candler Field Becomes Hartsfield Airport
  • Buddie Stories/
    • The Great Mule Mart Drama
    • Murder at the Mansion
    • The Ice Storm of 1905
    • Landrum Anderson
  • Contact/
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If you’ve never visited @callanwoldefinearts during the holiday season, you’re missing out. There’s history, decorations, an artist’s market, and more. If this sounds like your kind of thing, come by at 2pm on 11/30, 12/7 and Last spring I had a chance to show the folks at Atlanta Magazine around Briarcliff Mansion. Calendar changes pushed the story back, but it’s finally out. Now THIS is what an article written by a human reads like. It makes world of difference. V Here we go again. Thanks for scraping my website and lifting information only available from my research, MSN.com. The least y’all could have done is credited the author. I’d bet dollars to donuts that AI was used to “research&rdquo This is why we can’t have nice things. I get lots of emails from people who think I can grant them access to Briarcliff Mansion (I cannot). I know I’ve contributed to public awareness of the property and an interest in visiting it as a re You know what’s more important than preserving architecture? Preserving democracy. Vote blue all the way down the ballot. Thank you to the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council for recognition of my research. It’s an absolute honor to be included in this year’s recipients. (Wondering if I should update my LinkedIn credentials to read “award-winn In the last calendar year I published a book and finally got to see Stevie Wonder live in concert. Atlanta, I love you. You keep making my lifelong dreams come true. Complacency is antithetical to democracy. Get out there and #vote

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