10/18/2026
Did you know this Philip Trammell Shutze-designed home burned while still under construction and was later linked to an unsolved jewelry theft?
In November 1929, a fire caused approximately $75,000 in damage to the nearly completed Atlanta residence. The house was rebuilt and finished about a year later. The first owners of the English-Chambers House, also known as Rosewood, were Harry and Florence English. Harry English, president of the Chattahoochee Brick Company, died in 1938, while Florence remained in the home until her death in 1964.
For more than two decades, Mrs. English spent her winters in Miami Beach, accompanied by her maid and chauffeur. In 1945, she made headlines when $50,000 worth of jewelry was stolen from the house she was renting there. While Mrs. English and her chauffeur were away at a dress-fitting appointment, and her maid briefly left for the post office, burglars forced a door and made off with the jewels. The FBI investigated the case, but no reports indicate that the jewelry was ever recovered.
The home later became the longtime residence of Anne Cox Chambers, the media executive, philanthropist, and former U.S. ambassador. Private residence. Photo from the archives.
