Mimosa Hall, an antebellum home in Roswell, is in “pristine condition,” but it’s still on a new list of historic Georgia buildings deemed at risk.
Mark McDonald leads the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation. He said Mimosa Hall is on its 2017 “10 Places in Peril” list because it’s up for sale.
“Any historic house on a large parcel of land in the Atlanta area is in danger because a prospective purchaser could tear the building down, develop the lot, put a subdivision in, so we’re just concerned this could happen to it, maybe not with the next owner but the owner after the next owner,” McDonald said. “This particular property sits in a very critical location in relationship to the other historic houses in Roswell.”
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