Fire Guts Former Home of Margaret Mitchell
A fire gutted the historic apartment house where Margaret Mitchell wrote most of “Gone With The Wind.”
Firefighters brought the blaze under control in about 90 minutes early Saturday. The cause of the fire was not immediately determined.
Mitchell lived in a first-floor apartment with her husband from 1926 to 1932. She referred to the house as “the dump.”
The 95-year-old building, on the city’s list of protected landmarks, had been slated for demolition before preservation work rescued it in the late 1980s. A $2.6-million restoration project was planned.
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