LCN - History

The name "Lake Claire" derives from the intersection of Lakeshore Drive and Claire Drive. There never was a "Lake Claire," rather Lakeshore was named after the now-dry artificial "Lake Ponceana," formerly at the north intersection of Claire. The neighborhood was probably named after the Lake Claire Garden Club founded in the mid 1930s.

Streets now in the Lake Claire neighborhood were originally surveyed as a few separate developments. These became incorporated into Atlanta one-by-one around the 1910s. Today Lake Claire is a neighborhood unit recognized by the City of Atlanta. Although some developers built groups of houses, much of Lake Claire has been sold as empty lots with individuals constructing their own houses.

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