The home designs are reminiscent of the early 1900s and have period detailing such as cedar shake accents, decorative period windows and doors, tapered columns and wide, covered verandah porches. The interiors feature hardwood floors, crown molding, bead-board detailing, and simple, classic banisters.

The Hamptons exhibits elements of "new urbanism" with the best features of small town living in mind. Homes are located closer to the sidewalk than normal to encourage more social interaction among neighbors, and the community has a grand bandstand and a central lawn as a focal point and community gathering place.

Homeowners association dues cover lawn service for every home, as well as the park area and the entryway to the community.

The community is convenient to local schools, the town library, and Hampton City Park. A short drive from Interstate 75, Highway 19-41, and the Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton is only a half hour from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and 45 minutes south of downtown Atlanta.

The Housing Group Partners, an award-winning company which has Michael Ray and James MacDowell as its principals, celebrated its 25th anniversary last year. The company, which has produced nearly 4,000 homes in Metro Atlanta, already has a solid reputation for building communities reflecting the Traditional Neighborhood Design concept. These communities in other historic locations in the Metro Atlanta area received a tremendously positive reception from the home buying public.

The company, which has been active in downtown Atlanta, East Atlanta, Decatur, and in the North and West Metro counties, previously built in the late 1990s at the Heritage Lake community in Fayetteville and also built in Peachtree City and Tyrone.

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