NRPA Conference attendees are encouraged to experience Atlanta during their off time. The NRPA Local Host Committee will be offering the following leisure tours.
Explore
Atlanta on Two Wheels! Bicycle Tours of Atlanta offers special times and rates
to NRPA attendees, friends and spouses! Click here
to learn more.
Cyclorama Tour
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Bus Departs from GWCC – 1:00pm
Bus Returns to GWCC – 4:00pm
$10 fee paid at the venue
The Cyclorama is a two-part educational program on the Battle of Atlanta. The program includes special lighting, sound effects, music and narration.
Part I
A 14-minute film is shown detailing the events that led to the Battle of Atlanta.
Part II
Guests are escorted into the Cyclorama to experience the battle. On a second rotation through history, guides explain the history of the painting and answer audience questions.
MLK Center Tour
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Bus Departs from GWCC – 1:00pm
Bus Returns to GWCC – 4:00pm
FREE
The Martin Luther King Jr., National Historic Site includes a number of facilities that are operated in partnership with the National Park Service, Ebenezer Baptist Church and The King Center. Within these facilities the visitor can learn about Dr. King's life and and his influence on others.
The Peace Plaza is the area between the National Park Service Visitor Center and Auburn Avenue. The focal points of the beautifully landscaped plaza area are the Martin Luther King, Jr. "I Have a Dream" World Peace Rose Garden, which includes inspirational messages of peace composed by students from local Atlanta schools, and a flowing water fountain. Also located in the plaza is the "BEHOLD" statue.
MLK Center is a self-guided tour
Margaret Mitchell House Tour
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Bus Departs from GWCC – 1:00pm
Bus Returns to GWCC – 4:00pm
$13 fee paid at the venue
Listed on the National Register
of Historic Places and operated by the Atlanta History Center, the Margaret
Mitchell House is a turn-of-the century, three-story, Tudor Revival building
where Margaret Mitchell lived and wrote her Pulitzer-Prize winning book, Gone
With the Wind.
Built in 1899 by Cornelius J. Sheehan, the single-family home on fashionable
Peachtree Street was converted into a ten-unit apartment building in 1919.
Margaret Mitchell and her husband, John Marsh, moved into Apartment No.1 in 1925, when the building was known as the Crescent Apartments. Mitchell’s apartment is the only interior space of the restored house that is preserved as an apartment and maintains original architectural features, including the famous leaded glass window which Mitchell looked out while writing the book.
The house remained an apartment building until 1978 when it was abandoned. In 1985, a group of preservationists came together to save and restore the house and formed what is officially known today as the Margaret Mitchell House. To keep it from demolition, Mayor Andrew Young designated the house as a city landmark in 1989, and the restoration efforts continued.
In 1994, the house was severely damaged by fire, and Daimler-Benz, the German industrial group, supported the purchase of the property and restoration of the landmark building. Fire struck the house again in 1996, just forty days before its scheduled completion, and the restoration process began anew. The house officially opened to the public on May 17, 1997 and has since become one of Atlanta’s most treasured landmarks, literary centers, special events venue, and tourist attraction.
Shuttle Bus
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - every hour on the hour 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
1. Bike Tours of ATL
2. Atlantic Station
3. Varsity
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - every hour on the hour 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
1. Bike Tours of ATL
2. Atlantic Station
3. Varsity
Thursday, November 3, 2011 - every hour on the hour 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
1. Bike Tours of ATL
2. Atlantic Station
3. Varsity
**Please tip the driver**
The shuttle will be available leaving the World Congress Center during dates and times listed below.
For further information, contact Karyl Clayton at 404-546-6809 or kcclayton@atlantaga.gov
To register for the Leisure Tours, please click on the link www.regonline.com/nrpaleisuretours
