karenneel
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Re:Chandler Mansion - 2008/11/26 13:45
The house that y'all are referring to I believe is the Lullwater Estate which is still standing to this date. Here's some info I found about it:
Then, of course, there’s Atlanta’s most famous haunted mansion, Rainbow Terrace, now the Lullwater Estate on Ponce de Leon Road. Built to resemble a Spanish-Mediterranean villa, the large white stucco house with its dark orange tile roof was built in 1922 by barber Henry Heinz as a gift to his wife, socialite Lucy Candler, daughter of Coca-Cola company founder and one-time Atlanta Mayor Asa Candler. After Heinz was shot in 1943 by a burglar in what was to become one of Atlanta’s most notorious murder cases, Lucy Heinz could no longer bear to live on the property where she had shared such happy times with her husband.
By the 1960s and ‘70s, Rainbow Terrace had become a boarding house in which James S. Jenkins describes in his 1981 book “Murder In Atlanta” as owned by “an eccentric lady” who occupied the downstairs and rented out the second story, garage, and out-building as apartments. It was during this period that word began to circulate that the ghost of Henry Heinz was roaming the grounds.
Renters and neighbors claimed that they would see someone, perhaps a prowler, wandering the mansion grounds, but when they moved closer to the figure, no one was there. They also claimed to hear mysterious pistol shots as if someone was shooting target-practice, but again when they went to investigate, no one was there.
As the house lay vacant through the late 1970s and into the early 1980s, growing more and more deteriorated and overgrown, a grim fate looked likely for the once-grand mansion. That is, until the Metzler Muirhead Wright development corporation acquired the property, renovated the house, painted it pink, split it into condominiums, and erected a large $7 million townhouse project around it.
I went into this house several times in the late '70s and it was pretty spooky...
Karen Cagle '73
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