A few years after Brookhaven Estates was developed as the first community in Georgia designed around a golf course, Edwin P. Ansley auctioned off nearby lots as part of a new subdivision known as Oglethorpe Park. The lots were off Davidson Avenue, Lake View Avenue (which is now Lakehaven Drive), East Club Lane, Capital City Drive (now East Brookhaven Drive), and Oglethorpe University Drive (now Club Drive).

 

Brookhaven Estates included the Brookhaven Country Club, which would be purchased by the Capital City Club in 1915, and surrounding home lots. Oglethorpe Park, further from the clubhouse, was marketed as “magnificent country home sites” with an “advantageous location … particularly for the benefit of the members of Capital City Club.”

 

Ansley, who also developed Ansley Park further down Peachtree Road, billed the subdivision as an exclusive community that could support its own water and sewage system as well as offer modern conveniences. At the time, Oglethorpe University Drive had just been deeded to Fulton County and established as a public road. The lots were considered facing or tributary to the Capital City Country Club and its links.

 

An April 13, 1914, Atlanta Constitution advertisement noted the lots would be auctioned at 3 p.m. that day to the highest bidder. Ansley had arranged private cars and a special street car to take potential buyers to the site beginning at 2 p.m.

 

“If you fail to take advantage of this opportunity to secure a lot in this location you will always regret it,” Ansley wrote.

 

Many lots in Brookhaven Estates and Oglethorpe Park were purchased and sold several times before houses were built on them.