Atlanta Preservation Center

We were honored this week to receive an official proclamation from the Atlanta City Council recognizing May as Historic Preservation Month in the City of Atlanta.

The proclamation highlights the essential role preservation plays in shaping a thriving, livable, and equitable city. It recognizes Atlanta’s historic buildings, neighborhoods, and cultural landmarks as vital parts of our shared identity and acknowledges the importance of protecting them for future generations.

We are deeply grateful to Council Member Collins for arranging the Proclamation and to the Atlanta City Council for this recognition and for their continued support of preservation efforts across the city.

APC Board Members Megan Hodgkiss and Kendra Waters proudly accepted the proclamation on behalf of the Atlanta Preservation Center. As Kendra Waters shared, “This public recognition is a continued reminder that preservation happens in many different ways throughout the city.”

Historic preservation is not just about buildings. It is about memory, culture, community, and the stories that connect us to Atlanta and to one another.

Atlanta started as a railroad town, and Brookwood Station is the last remaining passenger train station in the city.

Officially named Peachtree Station by the Southern Railway, it opened at 12:01 a.m. on March 17, 1918. Just forty minutes later, Train No. 36, the United States Fast Mail, arrived and began a century-long connection between Atlanta and the rail lines that built it.

Designed in the Italian Renaissance style, the station served growing neighborhoods like Ansley Park and Brookwood Hills with a convenient stop outside the downtown terminals.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, Brookwood proves that functional architecture can still be timeless. Over 100 years later, it continues to connect Atlanta to cities across the Southeast and Northeast through Amtrak’s Crescent Line.