Meadow Nook

Meadow Nook is an antebellum house in Atlanta, Georgia. It is located at 2420 Alston Drive in the East Lake neighborhood, in DeKalb County. It is one of only three antebellum homes still standing in their original locations within the city limits.

Meadow Nook aka Robert A. Alston House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
As seen from Alston Drive
Location in Atlanta Meadow Nook (Georgia (U.S. state)) Meadow Nook (the United States)
Location	2420 Alston Dr., SE, Atlanta, Georgia
Coordinates	33°44′44″N 84°18′27″W
Area	0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built	1856
NRHP reference No.	04000683[1]
Added to NRHP	July 14, 2004

Meadow Nook was the country home of Lt. Col. Robert Augustus Alston (1832–1879) and Mrs. Alston, the former Mary Charlotte Magill (d. 1884) of Georgetown County, South Carolina. Robert Alston was a journalist and legislator who was murdered at the Georgia State Capitol in 1879, as a result of his ongoing exposés of the abusive convict labor leasing system.[2]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in DeKalb County, Georgia

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. New York Times, May 1, 1879

Further reading

• Atlanta Historical Society. Atlanta Historical Journal, Volumes 24-25, pp. 27, 31
• William R. Mitchell Classic Atlanta, p.56 (mistakenly calls the house "Meadownook")
• See also Alston's biography, linked below.

External links

• East Lake History
• Murder in the State Capitol: The Biography of Lt. Col. Robert Augustus Alston, 2013 book by Pamela Chase Hain
• Robert A. Alston at Find a Grave