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Margaret Mitchell House opens to visitors in Atlanta
May 17, 1997Web posted at: 8:00 p.m. EDT
ATLANTA (CNN) -- The house where Margaret Mitchell wrote "Gone With the Wind" was officially opened Saturday after the completion of a multimillion-dollar restoration project.
When the doors opened to the house the author once referred to as "a dump," two tour groups were waiting -- one from Japan, the other from Britain.
Mitchell had an apartment in the house and it was there that her husband brought her a typewriter and urged her to write the great American novel.
Within six months of being published, the book had sold a million copies. It still sells 40,000 hardback and 250,000 paperback copies each year.
Restoring the house as a museum and gift shop was a 10-year project that suffered several setbacks, including arson last year that gutted it. Among those backing the restoration was the German auto manufacturer Daimler Benz, which donated several million dollars.
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