Atlanta’s Fox Theater, originally the Yaarab Temple Shrine Mosque, was designed in the late 1920s as headquarters for the 5,000 member Shriners organization. It is one of the popular tours given by the Atlanta Preservation Center.

See Atlanta’s history firsthand on the Atlanta Preservation Center’s Guided Walking Tours:

• The Fox Theatre
• Historic Downtown
• Sweet Auburn/Martin Luther King Jr. Historic District
• Inman Park
• Frederick Law Olmsted’s Druid Hills
• Grant Park
• Ansley Park
• Historic Midtown

These Guided Walking Tours are an informative and fun way to learn about Atlanta’s remarkable history and the people who led the city to prominence as the capital of the New South. The historic neighborhood tours illustrate why Atlanta’s quality of life has been sought after for generations.

Tour Schedules
Atlanta Preservation Center (APC) Guided Walking Tours are scheduled on a regular basis. They last about 1½ hours. The schedules for the eight tours are included in the following description of each tour.

All tours except the Fox Theatre are offered from March 1 through November 30. The Fox tour is given year round. Tours are not conducted on legal Holidays, Christmas and Easter.

The Atlanta Preservation Center is the agency for coordination, knowledge, research and advocacy for preservation in the city. Founded in 1980, it has worked tirelessly with government, business and community leaders to preserve more than 175 endangered residential and commercial structures, neighborhoods and landscapes. Its advocacy and education programs have made preservation come alive for thousands of area students, residents and visitors. 

A craftsman shows young Westville visitors the fine points of weaving a traditional cotton basket.

Westville is an outdoor history museum which depicts an 1850 west Georgia village. You may have seen pictures of little towns like Westville. They dotted the 1850s countryside in the southern United States.

Westville has been designed so that visitors can experience a community in the 21st century similar to the ones in which our ancestors lived in the middle of the nineteenth century. See where the antebellum townspeople worshiped, voted, and went to school. Westville has over 30 authentically restored and furnished pre-Civil War buildings: houses, stores, workshops, churches, school, and courthouse. In fact, it has all the ingredients of a functioning town.

Guides and interpreters are in 1850’s dress and will take you through the town and share with you the history of Westville, its people, and their times.

Bulloch Hall, completed in 1839, has been described as one of the most significant houses in Georgia, and one of the South’s few examples of true temple-form architecture.

Don’t miss the home of Theodore Roosevelt’s mother - Roswell’s Bulloch Hall, a Willis Ball design that has been described as one of the most significant antebellum houses in Georgia.

The childhood home of Mittie Bulloch, President Theodore Roosevelt’s mother, this impressive Greek Revival structure completed in 1839 has been described as one of the most significant houses in Georgia and one of the South’s few examples of true temple-form architecture. The floor plan, typical to the period, features a lofty center entrance hall with an equal number of rooms on each side. The house is beautifully furnished with authentic period furniture. The house includes a Museum Room with history of the family. The grounds include reconstructed slave quarters, privy, summer house, wells, gardens and museum shop.

Architectural Tours of Savannah informs visitors, locals and anyone else interested in Savannah’s story about this beautiful city’s built environment. Oglethorpe’s original plan, today’s desire to balance preservation with a living city and almost 300 years in between are discussed while walking through what is sometimes labeled an urban jungle.