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While Brookhaven was first a plantation, then a summer getaway spot for Atlantans, its neighborhood roots date back nearly a century. Construction there continues as infill homes replace some of its earlier dwellings. In 1910, a group of investors purchased land for a country club there, to be surrounded by a neighborhood of houses called Brookhaven Estates. Brookhaven Country Club, with metro Atlanta's second golf course, opened in 1912. It had nine holes. Atlanta's Capital City Club leased the club in 1913 and two years later expanded the course to 18 holes. Unlike the Druid Hills and Ansley Park country clubs, which also opened in 1912, the Brookhaven club was not an addition to an existing neighborhood. Streets were laid out and houses built around the golf course, with architects as noted as Neel Reid and Hal Hentz putting their stamp on the designs. Construction of the neighborhood was completed in the 1950s. The oldest part of Brookhaven was entered on the National Register of Historic Places in the 1980s.