Herndon Home

587 University Place Northwest
Atlanta, GA, 30314
404-581-9813

URL : http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/atlanta/her.htm

overview : Completed in 1910, the Herndon Home, was the residence of Alonzo Herndon and his family. Herdon was a former slave raised in a sharecropping family after the Civil War. Herndon studied barbering, and owned and managed a string of barbershops in downtown Atlanta after the Civil War, one of which was considered to be the most elegant in the country with marble floors and chandelier. Investing his income into real estate, Herndon became the largest black property owner in Atlanta by 1900.