The Spruill Center for the Arts

Spruill Center for the Arts was founded in 1975 as a part of DeKalb County Government. In 1982, it became a private nonprofit multi-disciplinary arts institution. The Spruill Center for the Arts provides high-quality fine arts programming for the community through classes in literary, performing, and visual arts. It is supported in part by grants from DeKalb Council for the Arts, Georgia Council for the Arts, and National Endowment for the Arts. Donations to the Spruill Center for the Arts are tax deductible.

The following information is from a brochure distributed by the Spruill Center for the Arts and written by Emily Pogue Henry.

The Spruill Center for the Arts Gallery & Historic Home is located at 4681 Ashford Dunwoody Road, Atlanta, GA 30338. They are open Wednesday through Saturday from 11 am until 5 pm. Admission and parking are free. They can be reached by phone at 770-394-4019 or by fax at 770-394-3987.



A History of the Spruill Homeplace

The Spruill Homeplace in Dunwoody, Georgia, was the center of a large working farm from the mid-19th century until 1965. Today, the main house and two outbuildings are still standing in good condition on the property. The house has undergone numerous additions and renovations since being built in the 1840s, and features a century's worth of phases and styles of Southern folk architecture.

Through the generosity of Onnie Mae Spruill, Stephen T. Spruill's daughter, and Ethel Warren Spruill, his second wife, the Spruill Homeplace and five surrounding acres have been donated to the Spruill Center for the Arts to serve as a place to foster the arts, and as a remembrance of one of Dunwoody's first families, the Spruills.

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