#3 - Dan & Darren - Confederate Avenue, Woodland Hills
SPONSORED BY JENNY PRUITT & ASSOCIATES, REALTORS
Dan and Darren moved from Grant Park into their Woodland Hills home in 2001 and started digging up history on the home and its occupants.
It turns out the house was built in 1912 by Miles Galloway, a member of the Galloway Bothers Quartet which had some notoriety in the 1910s and 20s. They also discovered that the second inhabitant of the home was James Curran Davis, who studied law while living in the home and later became a Superior Court Judge, a US Congressman, and the publisher of the short-lived Atlanta Times newspaper in the 1960s.
Some of the features that attracted Darren and Dan to the home were the large rooms with high ceilings, the large front porch, and the fact that the home had maintained many of its original features. Be sure to check out the multiple decks in the back yard and the water features and ponds in the front and back yards.
The extensive updates to the yard hide the fact that it used to include a chicken coop and a large vegetable garden to feed the former occupants and their families.
Most renovations are now complete the main living areas of the home, including extensive cosmetic work. Both bathrooms have undergone a major renovation, as have the kitchen and den. If you look closely at lots of the artwork displayed throughout the home, you will find that they were painted by Darren himself. He also made the red bamboo lamp in the living room.
Current plans are to take what was formerly an expansive dirt basement and finish it with an office, a gallery/workshop, a bedroom, and another bath. Darren and Dan are thinking about removing the bath/shower from the hall bathroom in order to install a circular staircase for access to the new downstairs. (The dirt basement used to be the evening home to the family milk cow.)
Darren and Dan have spent a lot of time researching the history of the home and its former owners, and have made contact with the grandson of the original owner, as well as members of the Flannagan and Morris families, who lived in the home from the 1920s to the 40s.
You might just be able to meet Barbara, who was born in the house in the 1930’s. She and her daughter Susan will be volunteering as house hosts at Darren and Dan’s for the tour.