Inman Park Victorian
Late-1800s Queen Anne Restoration — Slate, Copper Cresting & Complex Rooflines
A Queen Anne Gem in Atlanta's Oldest Suburb
Built in the 1890s, this Inman Park Queen Anne Victorian is a textbook example of the era's excess: turret, cross-gables, dormers, wraparound porch, decorative shingle courses, and originally a full run of copper cresting along the ridge. A century-plus of Atlanta weather had eroded the slate, stolen nearly all of the copper, and left the turret roof leaking in three locations.
The project required coordination with the Atlanta Urban Design Commission (AUDC) and the Inman Park Neighborhood Association, archival research to reconstruct the original copper cresting, and a crew skilled in layout and fabrication for highly complex, multi-pitch roof geometry.
Client Type
Private homeowners
Location
Inman Park, Atlanta GA
Timeline
26 weeks, including AUDC review
Result
Full historic envelope restoration, AUDC approved
Complex Rooflines, Hand-Crafted Solutions
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After
Materials, Craft & Historic Review
- Full tear-off and deck repair, including the conical turret
- New Buckingham Virginia slate, historically correct for the era
- Fish-scale slate courses reproduced in key ornamental zones
- Custom turret slate cut on-site for radius fit
- Original 1890s cresting profile reconstructed from archival photos
- Hand-soldered 16 oz copper cresting along 140 ft of ridge
- New copper valleys, step flashings, and conductor heads
- Turret finial re-cast and installed
- Fish-scale and diamond cedar shingle courses restored on gables
- Bargeboards, finials, and brackets hand-milled to match originals
- Period seven-color Victorian paint scheme approved by AUDC
- Atlanta Urban Design Commission Certificate of Appropriateness
- Archival photo research at Atlanta History Center
- Coordination with Inman Park Neighborhood Association
"The copper cresting hadn't existed on our house for 70 years—but the old photos showed it, and they rebuilt it. The house finally looks the way the original architect drew it. Worth every month of waiting for approvals."
Inman Park Homeowners
Inman Park, Atlanta GA
Services Used on This Project
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