Avondale Estates was originally known as Ingleside. George Willis, a patent medicine magnate, purchased all of the land to develop as a planned community. Willis had recently visited Stratford-upon-Avon, home to William Shakespeare, and was inspired to build a community based upon it. He renamed the town Avondale Estates, and subsequently many of the business and residential buildings were built in Tudor style to reinforce the image. To the city’s credit, Avondale to this day still retains the look of a small English village.

Besides it’s Tudor beauty, Avondale Estates is home to Lake Avondale which has tennis courts and a club house built around it. It is also home to the very first Waffle House, which the city has turned into a museum. For a city so close to the bustling metropolis of Atlanta, Avondale manages to retain the charm of a small town.

Because the city was modeled after Stratford-upon-Avon, much of the city’s architecture is built in the Tudor style in order to give the town the old English feel. Along with those houses, the 1920’s saw many English Cottage, Dutch Colonial, Colonial Revival, and Craftsman homes being built. Later, in the 1950’s a few ranch style homes were built as well.