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 Margaret
Mitchell House and Museum
Location: 990 Peachtree St.,
Atlanta
Hours: Daily 9:30am - 5pm
Admission: Adults $12, Seniors (65 and older) $9, Students (with I.D.) $9,
Children aged 6-17 $5, Children under 5 FREE
This museum, which opened on December 15, 1999 - the 60th
anniversary of the movie premiere in Atlanta - illuminates the making of the
movie, the premiere and legacy with memorabilia from the Herb Bridges collection
and the doorway of Tara from the movie set. Your experience at our historic site
ends with an opportunity to enjoy the Museum Shop, complete with unique gifts,
souvenirs, and Gone With The Wind collectibles and memorabilia.
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The
Visitors Center, located adjacent to the house on the corner of
Peachtree Street and Peachtree Place, is the main entrance and the
beginning of the tour. The 4,000 square foot facility houses the
ticket counter, a small theater and a visual arts exhibit gallery.
After the second fire in May 1996, Daimler-Benz offered a challenge
grant to renovate the Visitors Center and provide a facility to
temporarily house exhibits for visitors during the Olympic Games and
before the completion of the house.
With additional support from the business and hospitality
community, the Visitors Center opened temporarily in July 1996. |
The docent-led tour is a one to one and a half-hour experience
with exclusive photographs and archival exhibits that begin to tell the story of
Margaret Mitchell beyond Gone With The Wind.
The tour starts in our Visitors' Center with "Before Scarlett:
The Writings of Margaret Mitchell". The tour continues into the house, through
her apartment where she wrote Gone With The Wind and finally to the NEW Gone
With The Wind Movie Museum.
Built in 1899 by Cornelius J. Sheehan, the two-story, single-family home on
fashionable Peachtree Street was converted in 1919 into a 10-unit apartment
building. It was here, from 1925 until 1932, that Margaret Mitchell lived in
Apartment #1 and wrote her Pulitzer prize-winning novel, Gone With The Wind.
When Margaret Mitchell and her husband, John Marsh, moved into the house in
1925, the building was known as the Crescent Apartments. Apartment #1 is the
only interior space of the restored house that is preserved as an apartment.
Architectural features include the famous leaded glass window out
of which Margaret looked while writing the book, and tile in the foyer of her
apartment. All furnishings are of the period.
Gone With The Wind Museum opened on December 15, 1999, the 60th anniversary of
the movie premiere in Atlanta. Major attractions include the front door of the
legendary Tara plantation from the movie set and the portrait of Scarlett from
the Butler house that made movie history. The portrait still bears a liquor
stain from a drink Clark Gable's Rhett Butler threw at it.
Other artifacts include selections from the world's largest collection of Gone
With The Wind memorabilia, including, posters, dolls, games, plates and jewelry,
and costumes owned by Herb Bridges. Film footage from the premiere, movie
scripts and original movie set design sketches also fill this unique museum,
which is a renovated bank building.
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