Inman Park
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Inman Park is a neighborhood of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, its first planned suburb. It is part of Little Five Points.
Developed by Joel Hurt in 1887 who handled the civil engineering aspects while Joseph Forsyth Johnson took care of landscape architecture. Largely from Johnson's contribution the original 138 acre (558,000 m²) development was the first naturalistic suburb plan south of the Mason-Dixon line, its only precursors in the country were Llewellyn Park and Riverside Park.
The center of Inman Park was two miles (3 km) from Five Points with no direct access; in order to make it work Hurt extended the stub of Line St due East (renamed Edgewood Ave) and established an electric streetcar system to run along it.
He had early commitments from some of Atlanta's elite to build homes here: Asa Candler and Charles Winship.
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