Tour Stop Three: 702 Boulevard Southeast
Michael, Maggie, and children James and Knox Weeman
Transplants all the way from Midtown Atlanta, Michael, and Maggie were blown away with this 1907 Victorian Cottage – the first and only Grant Park home they toured – particularly by the deceptive scale and all the fun nooks and crannies. Original to the home are the five fireplaces – all but the one in the living room have their original tile; glass-pane doors in front of the living room and dining room; lead glass windows in the front of the house; hardwood floors; all the bedroom doors with keyholes; molding on the first floor; and the clawfoot tub in the main bathroom. Originally a single-story home, the owners in the early 2000s renovated the attic and made it into a 3B/2BA apartment.
Weeman family improvements include a kitchen renovation, a “speak-easy” addition to the attic (attached to the larger room upstairs), and replacing the former apartment kitchen with a wet bar. Around the fireplaces, they replaced the faux wood with concrete “cannon balls” as a nod to Lemuel Grant and Grant Park’s history. Just this year they completely renovated the backyard landscape and installed a sound and lighting system.
Their favorite thing about the home is the front porch that faces west. This home also shares a characteristic unique to this and other historic neighborhoods, and that’s the alley behind the house. The land on the other side of the alley housed stables for this block’s horses back in the day.