Meadow Nook is an antebellum house in Atlanta, Georgia. It is located at 2420 Alston Drive in the East Lake neighborhood, in DeKalb County. It is one of only three antebellum homes still standing in their original locations within the city limits.

Meadow Nook aka Robert A. Alston House
As seen from Alston Drive
Meadow Nook is located in Atlanta
Meadow Nook
Location in Atlanta
Meadow Nook is located in Georgia
Meadow Nook
Meadow Nook (Georgia)
Meadow Nook is located in the United States
Meadow Nook
Meadow Nook (the United States)
Location2420 Alston Dr., SE, Atlanta, Georgia
Coordinates33°44′44″N 84°18′27″W / 33.745587°N 84.30753°W / 33.745587; -84.30753
Area0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built1856
NRHP reference No.04000683[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 14, 2004

Meadow Nook was the country home of Lt. Col. Robert Augustus Alston (1832–1879) and Mrs. Alston, the former Mary Charlotte Magill (d. 1884) of Georgetown County, South Carolina. Robert Alston was a journalist and legislator who was murdered at the Georgia State Capitol in 1879, as a result of his ongoing exposés of the abusive convict labor leasing system.[2]

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  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ New York Times, May 1, 1879

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