Tuxedo Park Historic District

The historic Tuxedo Park neighborhood is located in northwest Atlanta in the area known as Buckhead. Its 510 properties are on 822 acres of woodland containing rolling hills and perennial streams. An early automobile suburb, the elite Tuxedo Park subdivision was developed from 1911 to 1975. It featured large homes designed by prominent architects, and extensive grounds and gardens created by well-known landscape architects. Developer Charles H. Black, Sr. named his new subdivision after the famous and exclusive Tuxedo Park enclave, developed in 1886 in New York.

The neighborhood was designed for Atlanta’s social, business, and government elites. Many were moving away from their former homes on Peachtree Street, which was becoming more commercialized. Tuxedo Park was a welcome escape from the crowded city, increasingly sooty from all the trains. With an automobile, which at that time only the very well-to-do could afford, the ride into town took just 20 minutes.

Over time, other developers created six smaller neighborhoods  surrounding the original subdivision. All were influenced by the country-retreat design aesthetic of Tuxedo Park, which included mandatory large lots, uniform deep setbacks, and curvilinear roads respectful of the hilly terrain and winding creeks and streams. The area in general became popularly known as Tuxedo Park.

As an early 20th century suburban development, the district contains most of the then-popular, turn-of-the-century Revival styles, many designed by well-known architects, including Frazier & Bodin; Cooper & Cooper; Hentz, Reid & Adler (later Hentz, Adler & Shutze); Ivey & Crook; Pringle & Smith; James Owen Southwell; Philip Trammell Shutze; Thomas G. Little, Sr.; and André Steiner. The sections of the neighborhood developed after World War II contain one- and two-story houses in a variety of styles, including Colonial Revival, French Vernacular, International, Neoclassical Revival, Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired, and Rustic.

Various entities have tried to get Tuxedo Park listed in the National Register since the 1990s, but without success. The Tuxedo Park Civic Association hired Laura Drummond in January 2023 to attempt a nomination. It was a lengthy process, but Laura presented the nomination to the Georgia National Register Review Board in November 2024, and the Tuxedo Park Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on February 24, 2025.