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Herndon Home Museum

Herndon Home Museum, a museum in Georgia
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Herndon Home Museum, a museum in Georgia
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Herndon Home Museum is a museum in Georgia, at a recorded elevation of 319 m. Kennesaw Mountain stands 543 m to the north-northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Historic Westside Gardens, a garden 0.1 miles away. South Fulton Scenic Byway passes 18 miles off. 20 named summits stand within 25 miles.

About

The story

The Herndon Home is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark at 587 University Place NW, in Atlanta, Georgia. An elegant Classical Revival mansion with Beaux Arts influences, it was the home of Alonzo Franklin Herndon (1858-1927), a rags-to-riches success story who was born into slavery, but went on to become Atlanta's first black millionaire as founder and head of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company. The house was designed by his wife Adrienne, and was almost entirely built with African-American labor. The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2000, and had previously been declared a "landmark building exterior" by the city of Atlanta in 1989.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Dates from 1910.

Wikidata Q5742312, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
319 m
Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates33.75581, -84.40678
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
Artworks
Historic sites
Parks
  • Vine City Park: 0.2 mi
  • The Home Depot Backyard: 0.3 mi
  • Rodney Cook Sr. Park in Historic Vine City: 0.4 mi
  • Georgia International Plaza: 0.5 mi
  • Cleopas R. Johnson Park: 0.5 mi
Museums
Attractions: 39
Peaks: 20
Nature reserves: 19
  • Lullwater Conservation Garden: 4.5 mi
  • Cascade Springs Nature Preserve: 4.9 mi
  • Intrenchment Creek greenspace: 6.3 mi
  • Woodlands Garden: 6.3 mi
  • Glenn Creek Nature Preserve: 7.2 mi
Picnic sites: 4
Waterfalls: 3
Beaches: 2
  • Aarlington Beach: 11.5 mi
  • Swan Lake Estates Beach: 16.8 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Springs: 1
  • Trentham Spring: 14.5 mi
Cliffs: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Herndon Home Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Kennesaw MountainNNW 327°543 m18.2 mi
Stone MountainENE 77°514 m15.4 mi
Sweat MountainN 353°500 m21.7 mi
Little Kennesaw MountainNW 325°488 m18.1 mi
Lost MountainNW 309°462 m21.3 mi
Blackjack MountainNNW 342°418 m16.5 mi
Pine MountainNW 320°396 m21.1 mi
Cedar MountainW 269°379 m22.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4219:1719:50
June solstice06:2820:1520:52
September equinox07:2619:0319:36
December solstice07:3916:5517:34

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F444854627077807974635246
Precip in4.34.34.53.63.63.85.04.03.43.63.84.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Atlanta Fulton CO AP, 7 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element node/367915546

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