The Huff House was for decades the oldest house in the city of

Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ...

. It was located at the northeast corner of Huff Road and Ellsworth Industrial Avenue. at 1133 Huff Road NW (old numbering, 70 Huff Road NW)''Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 1820s-1870s'', p.511, Franklin M. Garrett
/ref> in Blandtown, part of what is today

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, overlooking the site of the

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. It was the family home of Sara Huff, the author of the memoir ''My 80 Years in Atlanta''. Jeremiah Huff built the house of pine and brick in 1854 or 1855 over the remnants of an 1830s log cabin. It was razed in 1954 to make way for the Rushton Toy Factory building. This was covered on the front page of the Atlanta paper at the time. Perennial Properties bought the factory site in 2006, demolished the factory in 2008, and the Apex West Midtown residential development is now located at the site. Adorning the Huff House was some of the boxwood from the demolished Ponder House, which had stood in the

Hemphill Avenue The Hemphill Avenue neighborhood was until the late 1960s a multi-racial working-class neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia roughly bounded by 10th Street, Hemphill Avenue, North Avenue and Marietta Street. It contained homes, churches (including Ponde ...

neighborhood. Atlanta historian

Franklin Garrett Franklin Miller Garrett (September 25, 1906 – March 5, 2000) was the only official historian of Atlanta. His massive ''Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of its People and Events'' is a book about the city's history. Biography A native of ...

characterized the house as one of the two finest residences in pre-

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Atlanta.

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