Oakland City is a neighborhood in southwestern Atlanta, Georgia, just southwest across the

BeltLine The Atlanta BeltLine (also Beltline or Belt Line) is a open and planned loop of multi-use trail and light rail transit system on a former railway corridor around the core of Atlanta, Georgia. The Atlanta BeltLine is designed to reconnect neig ...

from West End and

Adair Park Adair Park is a residential neighborhood located southwest of downtown Atlanta. It has the form of a left curly bracket, bordered by the MARTA north–south rail line on the northwest, the BeltLine trail on the southwest and Metropolitan Parkway ...

. Oakland City was incorporated as a city in 1894 and annexed to Atlanta in 1910.''Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 1880s-1930s'', Franklin M. Garrett p.557-8
/ref> Oakland City Historic District is listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

. It contains wood and brick bungalows as well as

Minimal Traditional Minimal Traditional is a style of architecture that emerged in mid 20th century America as a vernacular form that incorporates influences from earlier styles such as American Colonial, Colonial Revival, Spanish Revival, Tudor Revival, and American ...

, English Vernacular Revival, and Craftsman houses. The district included th
Withers House
which was demolished in the first decade of the 2000s. The neighborhood is served by the

Oakland City station Oakland City is an embankment rail station in Atlanta, Georgia, serving the Red and Gold lines of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) rail system. Opened on December 15, 1984, it has one island platform between two tracks. ...

External links

Oakland City Community Organization (OCCO)Oakland City Historic District Regulations
retrieved 2011-01-15 * History of Oakland City
"A Revitalization Plan for Atlanta’s Oakland City Neighborhood", Southwest Atlanta Neighborhood Collaborative and West Atlanta Watershed Alliance, 2012

References

{{National Register of Historic Places Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) Neighborhoods in Atlanta Bungalow architecture in Georgia (U.S. state) Former municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state) National Register of Historic Places in Atlanta