Poncey-Highland is a neighborhood on the east side of Atlanta, Georgia, located south of Virginia-Highland. It so named because it is near the intersection of east/west Ponce de Leon Avenue and north/southwest North Highland Avenue. This Atlanta neighborhood was established between 1905 and 1930, and is bordered by Little Five Points to the east, the Old Fourth Ward and Midtown Atlanta to the west, Inman Park to the south, and Virginia Highland to the north at Virginia Avenue.
Poncey-Highland is home of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, established in 1982. The Carter Center occupies an area of land that was planned as an interchange between eight-lane highways: Interstate 485 (now Stone Mountain Freeway) east and west, and Georgia 400 and Interstate 675 north and south. The development was successfully stopped by the surrounding neighborhoods, leaving Freedom Parkway in the area where GDOT had already demolished over 500 homes.
Poncey-Highland has several historic buildings including the Ford Motor Company factory (circa 1916), the Sears building (later Atlanta City Hall East), the Plaza Theater (circa 1930), and the DuPre Excelsior Mill (now The Masquerade music venue). The BeltLine is to be built on existing rail tracks that pass the Ford/Sears/DuPre buildings at Ponce, and a block south at North Avenue. Nearby is Manuel's Tavern, a local political hangout. Also located in Poncey-Highland is another Atlanta landmark, the Clermont Lounge, "Atlanta's oldest strip club", according to the Clermont Lounge website.
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