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Harrison Hill was platted in 1915 by Hilgeman & Schaaf, the firm that also built Southwood Park, on the City Beautiful principles of planner Charles Mulford Robinson: a grand residential boulevard entered from Calhoun Street and two concentric radial boulevards. The roughly 85-acre district's houses and institutions date chiefly from the 1910s and 1920s, with infill into the 1950s. Before the plat, the ground was William H. F. Moellering's brickyard and farm — about 40 acres that supplied brick to the growing city. The Moellering house, built in 1880, still stands on two acres near the Calhoun Street entrance and is among the oldest houses south of Rudisill Boulevard; the family sold the land to the Harrison Hill developers in 1915. The neighborhood association's own history notes the hill's rise above the downtown courthouse grounds.
Sources: Harrison Hill neighborhood association history; National Register nomination text via Living Places; ACGSI M-named-places file (Moellering house and brickyard).