Find Your Neighborhood

This in-town neighborhood, lush with foliage and history, is filled with 80-year old-houses and 100-year-old trees. Once considered a suburban outpost, Brookwood is now a very desirable place to live. Brookwood was the site of one of the most definitive conflicts in the Civil War -- the Battle of Peachtree Creek. Years later, it became the country estate of Atlanta hotelier Joseph Thompson and his wife Emma, who selected a home site near what is now the Peachtree Road-I-85 interchange. They called it Brookwood. The Thompsons entertained Presidents Grover Cleveland and William McKinley and Vice-President Adlai Stevenson at their Brookwood estate. As a neighborhood grew around the area, residents chose to name it Brookwood in honor of their influential neighbors. Brookwood is filled with a variety of grand homes ranging from $600,000 and up, but its most famous landmark is the 1918 Neel Reid-designed Amtrak Station. At the time of its construction at the corner of Deering Road and Peachtree Street, the rail station was considered far away. But Midtown grew northward and Buckhead became wildly popular. The small brick building found itself in the middle of prime real estate and dwarfed by neighboring development. Today, Amtrak's Brookwood Station is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and overlooks the massive junction of I-75 and I-85 otherwise known as the Brookwood split.