Briarcliff

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Briarcliff was the mansion and estate of Asa Griggs "Buddie" Candler Jr. (1880-1953), and is now the Briarcliff Campus of Emory University.”
Wikipedia article Briarcliff (mansion), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 56 National Register listings published here for DeKalb County · listed in 1988 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 structuress, 3 buildingss, 2 sitess as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1260 Briarcliff Rd., NE, Atlanta, 30306
When was it listed? August 1988
Category. district
Census division. Atlanta-Decatur
National Register reference number. 88001167 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Briarcliff between 1993 and 1999, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
14 April 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 March 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Villa MiraFlores	under 500 feet	2016
Briarcliff-Normandy Apartments	0.1 miles	2003
Cameron Court District	0.4 miles	1982
Callanwolde (Boundary Increase)	0.5 miles	2003
Callanwolde	0.6 miles	1973
Druid Hills Historic District	0.8 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001167 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
DeKalb County	All 56 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.