Editing Druid Hills, Georgia (section)

==History==
The [[planned community]] was initially conceived by Joel Hurt, and developed with the effort of Atlanta's leading families, including [[The Coca-Cola Company|Coca-Cola]] founder [[Asa Candler]]. It contains some of Atlanta's historic mansions from the late 19th and early 20th century. Druid Hills includes the main campus of [[Emory University]], which relocated to Atlanta in 1914.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}

Druid Hills was designed by [[Frederick Law Olmsted]] and was one of his last commissions.  A showpiece of the design was the string of parks along [[Ponce de Leon Avenue]], which was designated as Druid Hills Parks and Parkways and listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] on April 11, 1975.  The remainder of the development was listed on the Register as the [[Druid Hills Historic District (Atlanta, Georgia)|Druid Hills Historic District]] on October 25, 1979.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2009a}}</ref><ref>[http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/ga/De+Kalb/districts.html]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017135309/http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/ga/De+Kalb/districts.html|date=October 17, 2013}}</ref>  Later the Park and Parkways district was consolidated into the Druid Hills Historic District. The other historic districts in Druid Hills are:

* [[Emory University District]], added in 1975
* [[University Park-Emory Highlands-Emory Estates Historic District]], added in 1998
* [[Emory Grove Historic District]], added in 2000.<ref>[http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/GA/De+Kalb/state.html]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017225949/http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/GA/De+Kalb/state.html|date=October 17, 2013}}</ref>

[[File:Asa Candler Mansion - Druid Hills.JPG|thumb|left|St. John's Chrysostom Melkite Church along in [[Druid Hills]], Atlanta, 2012, formerly the mansion of [[Asa Griggs Candler]] (Senior)]]
[[File:Rainbow Terrace 1922.jpeg|thumb|left|Rainbow Terrace, home of [[Lucy Beall Candler Owens Heinz Leide]] at 1610 Ponce de Leon Ave., 1922]]
[[File:Asa G. Candler, Jr. Mansion.JPG|thumb|left|[[Briarcliff (mansion)|Briarcliff]], the [[Asa G. Candler, Jr.]] Mansion, 2012]]

By 2015 there was a bill in the [[Georgia Legislature]] which called for annexing more of Druid Hills into Atlanta.<ref>{{cite web|author=Niesse, Mark|url=https://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt--politics/druid-hills-annexation-into-atlanta-debated/xdPjjywjok6rm41wVHkqgP/|title=Druid Hills annexation into Atlanta debated|work=[[Atlanta Journal-Constitution]]|date=2015-03-13|access-date=2020-03-11}}</ref>

In 2016 Emory University's administration stated that it intended to petition the university to be annexed into the City of Atlanta, along with the CDC area;<ref>{{cite web|author=Chess, Richard|author2=Madison Bober|url=https://emorywheel.com/emory-cdc-to-be-annexed-into-atlanta/|title=Emory, CDC to be Annexed into Atlanta|work=[[Emory Wheel]]|date=December 4, 2017|access-date=March 11, 2020|archive-date=July 31, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731010611/https://emorywheel.com/emory-cdc-to-be-annexed-into-atlanta/|url-status=live}}</ref> in 2017 the university leadership formally submitted its petition.<ref>{{cite web|author=Stafford, Leon|url=http://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt--politics/emory-university-formally-files-petition-become-part-atlanta/KkN3nSaOPuSOKPGICIxnwJ/|title=Emory University formally files petition to become part of Atlanta|work=[[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]]|date=June 27, 2017|access-date=March 10, 2020|archive-date=August 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805075023/https://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt--politics/emory-university-formally-files-petition-become-part-atlanta/KkN3nSaOPuSOKPGICIxnwJ/|url-status=live}}</ref> The City of Atlanta annexed Emory's campus effective January 1, 2018, a part of its largest annexation within a period of 65 years; the [[Atlanta City Council]] voted to do so the prior December.<ref name="NiesseEmoryannexed">{{cite news |author=Niesse, Mark |title=City of Atlanta's expansion to Emory and CDC approved |work=[[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]] |url=http://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt--politics/city-atlanta-expansion-emory-and-cdc-approved/kMYzghHbvzD6THTyWpN1zH/ |url-status=live |access-date=December 5, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171205011722/http://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt--politics/city-atlanta-expansion-emory-and-cdc-approved/kMYzghHbvzD6THTyWpN1zH/ |archive-date=December 5, 2017}}</ref>