Presented by the Buildings Worth Saving
Committee of the Atlanta Preservation Center:

2007 List of Endangered Buildings:

L. P. Grant Park, 1883
Address: 800 Cherokee Ave., SE
Owner/Contact: City of Atlanta, 404-817-6788; park is maintained by the Grant Park Conservancy, 404-521-0938
Threat: Zoo Atlanta is proposing to increase parking to 2400 spaces with the inclusion of a deck to accommodate future parking needs and to expand its borders inside Grant Park, removing public park space from public use. Currently, the 900-car parking lots it shares with the park and Atlanta Cyclorama are full only 60 days this year.

L.P. Grant Park is Atlanta’s oldest park, created in 1883 with a donation to the city of 100 acres from Lemuel Pratt Grant, Atlanta pioneer and philanthropist. In 1916 Atlanta City Council adopted a park master plan designed by John C. Olmsted of Olmsted Brothers, who took over the firm of Frederick Law Olmsted after his retirement. The park was placed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The Grant Park Conservancy was established in 1998 to restore, renovate, beautify and maintain the park, which was suffering from growing use and declining maintenance. The current Master Plan, based on the Olmsted Plan, calls for massive renovations and improvements to the park over the next 20 years.

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