History Overview of Fischer Mansion

Fischer Mansion

Beautiful Fischer Mansion was built in 1930 for prominent Atlanta physician Dr. Luther Fischer, co-founder of Crawford Long Memorial Hospital, and his wife Lucy Hurt Fischer. Designed by renowned architect Philip Trammel Shutze, Fischer Mansion combines the fine lines of America’s most notable Neoclassical residences with delicate Regency details in an elegant edifice marked by an impressive columned garden porch.

The Fischers called their 100-acre estate “Flowerland,” and developed it into one of the premier horticultural showplaces of the South. Especially known for its variety of roses, Flowerland was open to the public and thousand of visitors came to stroll among the Fischer gardens.

Lucy FIscher passed away in 1937, and in 1845, the house was sold to John and Fronia Lee. In 1959, the estate, then 48 acres, was transferred to the Catholic Diocese of Atlanta, and was used as a private girls’ school, D’Youville Academy, which closed in 1969.

In the early 1970′s, the property was subdivided, and the mansion changed hands several times. For one year, it housed a private grade school called Phoenix Academy. In the late 1970′s, the property was purchased by Atlanta Unity Church, which used the mansion for church services, adult education classes, weddings, receptions, parties and dinners.

In July of 2004, the Atlanta Unity Church board voted to demolish the mansion to the make room for a classroom building and parking. A grassroots preservation effort to save the historic house caught the attention of Stafford Properties, which acquired the property in 2005 with the intent of designing a new development with Fischer Mansion as its centerpiece.

The Preserve at Fischer Mansion honors the past while celebrating the future, safeguarding the estate as home to a new generation of discerning Atlantans.