If you want to be almost guaranteed of seeing someone walking a Golden or Labrador Retriever, then drive through Brookhaven. Some consider it part of Buckhead some think of it as a separate community. Regardless, it has some architecturally significant and truly elegant Atlanta homes. The historic Capital City Club anchors the neighborhood with its golf course.

It’s one of those neighborhoods whose boundaries seem to mysteriously grow larger as neighboring communities try to piggyback on its cache. This has caused some people to refer to the original Brookhaven as “Historic Brookhaven” to differentiate it from the newer “Brookhaven”, with an eastern boundary that seems to end somewhere near Stone Mountain.

Brookhaven is often mentioned in the Atlanta McMansion battle. It originally had a mixture of premium luxury homes and some beautiful cottages with loads of curb appeal. Recently, many of the historic cottages and bungalows have been torn-down and replaced with beautiful, larger homes. The residents of Brookhaven are sharply divided over private property rights versus maintaining the diversity and original character of the neighborhood. Personally, I think it’s incorrect to characterize the newer homes in Brookhaven as McMansions. Most of the new homes are very tasteful and are not the big, cheap houses, filling every square inch of the lot, that seem to define Atlanta McMansions.
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