West End

Atlanta’s West End is approximately 5 miles West of the city’s skyline and business district.  The West End features a variety of historic housing stock, including Victorian and Craftsman bungalows.  Currently enjoying a resurgence, the West End is close to all the conveniences of intown.Westside Village sits near Morris Brown, Spelman and Morehouse colleges, Clark Atlanta University and the Interdenominational Theological Center. The historic West End neighborhood, just minutes from downtown and I-20. This Victorian neighborhood of cottages, bungalows and two-story houses features a commercial district along Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard, several large churches and a few historic sites, including the Wren's Nest, the home of writer Joel Chandler Harris. From West End, Cascade Road meanders through neighborhoods from the 1950s and 1960s. Many of these older houses sit on spacious lots beside wide streets. New communities, carved out of lots once occupied by the older properties or vacant land, are more typical of today's building styles, with smaller lots but grander houses.