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Renown: 2

Description

The tudor style house is set on a large plot of land in a mostly commercial stretch of Buckhead’s nightlife area. The place was once a marvel of the Atlanta area, until the High became the place to go instead. Now, Callanwolde Fine Arts Center is left with the lingering remains of it’s once populous crowd and reduced to showing no-names in their gallery with little hope to even try and match the High’s ability and outreach.

While the caretaker of the gallery at night is still paid her old salary, her benefits have been cut back and she doesn’t get to see many new faces anymore. This, coupled with menopause, has made Harriet Boston not a happy person to be around in general. People that come to the Callanwolde are often struck by just how rude Boston is, especially for a failing establishment.

The paint on the house, up close, is starting to peel in places, and the shrubbery could use a good sculpting, rather than the shoddy hack-and-leave job that was given to it sometime earlier in the year. The front yard hasn’t been raked, so leaves from an indeterminate year’s fall-season blanket the yard and roof of the house, creating a crunching sound wherever one is to go.

Inside the gallery, which is much larger than it should be for the amount of art that’s displayed, it’s okay. The wooden floorboards creak a little with age and the whiteish paint on the wall starkly contrasts with the pieces of local art on the walls. The lights are too hot and too harsh for most exhibits, but weren’t bothered to be altered just for some silly local artist’s work, so viewing the pieces can often become less of an enjoyable experience and more of a headache-inducing one.

Size, Location and Security

Size 4, Location 2, Security 1

Benefits

Minor

Boston might be irritable for most to be around, but you don’t have that much of a problem with her. As it turns out, she’s a matriarch of a fairly successful line in Atlanta’s Society and she even offers to introduce you to some of them if you want, next time they’re around. Either way, that doesn’t help you right then. But what does help you is the extended donated equipment in the “hands-on” room for visitors, and the large and mostly updated equipment seems to be the joy of the location and it’s unknown treasure.

+3 Create Art

Sizable

Boston considers you more than just a regular, maybe you’ve donated to the center or are just likable company for the woman, but either way, you’re allowed to borrow pieces of local art, access to what individuals consider “professional” only grade equipment, or even to host a gathering one evening that isn’t paid as a rental.

+4 Create Art; Borrow pieces of local art for one week; Free rental of a space for a single event

Uncontested

Boston is comfortable and even gracious for your presence in “her” establishment. If you’re an artist, she will host pieces of art on your behalf under assumed names with no trouble and she will try her hardest to convince those who come by the gallery showing that they should purchase one of your pieces for their private collections. Boston can be very persuasive, as you’ve come to know. On top of that, you can utilize the area any night (so long as it’s noted in advance) for a couple nights a week for any sort of gathering.

+4 Create Art; Borrow pieces of local art for one week; Free rental space for up to two nights a week; Gain an extra 2% of base income every month for art sales; Fame 1 (Atlanta Society)