things that get me excited

i've been working on the genealogy, as it were, of real-estate transactions in midtown --- this is from baylor's 1895 atlas of atlanta and shows all the property owners in land lot 106 at that time --- the hatched area at upper right is a 5+ acre parcel that henry hoyt bought in 1866, from the estate of samuel walker, the farmer that first settled there in the early 1820s --- i think it was hoyt who laid out new streets and platted the northwest quadrant of the parcel into the smallest lots found in midtown --- he apparently intended commercial development, perhaps in conjunction with one of the expositions held at the park in 1887 and 1895, but there was only one building there for the 1911 sanborn, and there is only one there today --- i've got to continue the chain of title, but this could very well be the oldest, intact building in midtown --- it is likely contemporaneous with one of the expositions*

* the walker house (c.1869) was adapted for the first clubhouse for the Piedmont Driving Club, but continuous additions and alterations have left little of the original house intact. There are also older historic structures in Midtown, including the belt line (c. 1870) and several streets that date to the 1860s.