
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, September 18, 1994                   TAG: 9409200062
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: ATLANTA                                LENGTH: Short

BLAZE DESTROYS MITCHELL HOUSE

The apartment house where Margaret Mitchell wrote most of ``Gone With the Wind'' went up in smoke early Saturday.

The fire engulfed the 95-year-old building and left only portions of the brick and stucco walls standing, said fire Capt. Floyd Wilson.

Mitchell lived with her husband in a rented first-floor apartment from 1926 to 1932 at what was then the Windsor House Apartments. The home was no Tara: Mitchell called it ``The Dump.''

The blaze ended a long battle to restore the house and provide Atlanta with a Mitchell tourist attraction in time for the 1996 Olympics.

The cause of the fire was not immediately known, but officials ruled out lightning from a thunderstorm that drenched Atlanta.

- Associated Press

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