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Historic preservation, arts, and culture became the DeKalb Historical Society, now the DeKalb History
increasingly important to DeKalb County residents during Center, moved in. The building was listed on the National
this period. Callanwolde, the home of Coca-Cola heir Register of Historic places in 1971, and a history library and
Howard Candler from 1920 to 1959, was donated to Emory archives opened in 1977. A museum opened in 1983.
University, then changed hands and fell into disrepair. It was The 1869 Stephen Spruill Homeplace in Dunwoody
purchased in 1972 and placed on the National Register of today is home to the Spruill Gallery, the Spruill Center for
Historic Places. Today it is the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center,
offering performing, visual, and literary arts classes and the Arts’ exhibit space to showcase the works of local
events to the community. emerging artists.
Another edifice that was saved from the wrecking ball In Stone Mountain, ART Station contemporary arts
is the Historic DeKalb County Courthouse. When the 1898 center operates from the 1913 historic trolley car barn and
courthouse building stopped being used for court proceedings has provided quality arts programming to the community
in 1967, preservationists moved to save the building. In 1968, for 35 years.

Callanwolde Fine Arts Center dates back to 1916 when it was built as the
home of Coca-Cola President and heir Howard Candler in the Druid Hills
neighborhood next to the Emory University campus. The house was designed
by Henry Hornbostel, the same architect engaged to design the new Emory
Campus in 1915 when Emory College moved from Oxford, Georgia to Atlanta.

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