Historic buckhead home
1926 Original construction and land area
Archival city records indicate the home at 2750 Northside Drive was originally built as an estate comprising over 8 acres. The property, sited on a spring-fed stream, encompassed the entire northwest land area of Northside Dr and West Wesley Rd., today consisting of the five large individual homes neighboring the property.
major restorations
Major restorations completed 1992 & 2021
While the main façade, entry drive and landscape plan of the home were preserved, earlier renovations changed the interior significantly. Modern bedrooms and bathrooms were added, a wine cellar, and three gas fireplaces. The carriage house was fully renovated in 2021.
artist in residence, Frank mack
Frank Mack legacy
All of the artwork featured on this web site was painted as oil on canvas by original resident Frank Mack during the 42 years he and his wife Elizabeth Russell Mack made their studio and home at 2750 Northside Drive.
All of the scenes Mack selected, such his self-portrait in the foyer, were chosen from locations in and around the house.
1939 map of Atlanta
Even by 1939, 13 years after construction, the property sat at the far northern edge of Atlanta - truly a "Town and Country" estate. Only Paces Ferry Rd., which was the northern boundary road of Atlanta then, was farther from downtown than Wesley Ave.
Frank and Elizabeth Russell Mack
He was a life-long professional portrait artist. She was his companion, friend, devoted wife and, in the end, biographer, where she memorialized him in a short but loving 84-page portrait of his life titled, Frocked In Gold - The Story of Frank Mack and His Work.
He trained at the famed Art Institute of Chicago and was soon after commissioned by the City of Atlanta to completely restore the Cyclorama painting, "The Battle of Atlanta" now on display at the Atlanta History Center.
The Macks lived at 2750 Northside Dr from 1926 to 1968.
Biography of the Artist by His Wife
Elizabeth Mack...
Excerpt from Frocked In Gold
"After completing this commission Mack had intended to return to New York to pursue his profession. The South, since the end of the War Between the States, had been the nation's economic step-child and few, even among the more affluent of Atlanta's citizens, were accustomed to spending lavishly upon luxuries such as fine paintings.
He had, however, in the meantime married an Atlanta girl and had fallen in love with the city, with Georgia, and with the South. Here, he thought, was the ideal place to live, the perfect place to work.
The wooded tract, then just beyond the city limits, which was his final selection for a home and a studio, seemed, with its spring and brook and century-old boxwood, to have something of a storybook atmosphere for the children who came here to be painted."
Front Terrace in Fall Colors
Front Entry Steps, c. 1930
Looking south from living room to study
Looking South from living room to study - present day
The Artist and His Wife
At the installation of his portrait of Peter Marshall, Chaplain of the U.S. Senate, at Columbia Seminary/Decatur