Margaret Mitchell House

At 979 Crescent Ave NE in Midtown Atlanta, the Margaret Mitchell House is the apartment where the author wrote Gone with the Wind. Guided tours take you through her first-floor rooms, with period furnishings and photographs that give the house a sense of its early-20th-century life. Exhibits connect Mitchell and the novel to Atlanta’s history and explore the book’s reach, the film adaptation and the story’s contested legacy. It is a compact stop for readers interested in the place behind the novel and the city around it.

The apartment where the novel took shape

Margaret Mitchell lived with her husband, John Marsh, in a first-floor apartment in this Tudor Revival house. The building had been divided into apartments by the time they moved in during the early 1920s. Mitchell reportedly called the place “the Dump.”

After a broken ankle kept her at home, Mitchell began writing the novel that became Gone with the Wind. The house is now part of the Atlanta History Center and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Midtown site is separate from the History Center’s main Buckhead location.

Inside the house and exhibits

A guided tour takes you through the apartment where Mitchell lived and wrote. Period furnishings, photographs and items associated with the author help place the rooms in context. The house itself is a three-story Tudor Revival building, though Mitchell and her husband occupied the first-floor apartment.

The museum’s exhibits extend beyond the rooms. They address Mitchell’s life and career, the making of the film and the novel’s reach. They also consider the difference between historical fiction and historical fact, including the book’s treatment of slavery and the history surrounding it. The material places the novel within Atlanta’s cultural history as well as its literary one.