In 1996, current owners, Carolyn Carr and Michael Gibson, purchased a forgotten old barn "Stable 1897" in Snake Nation a.k.a. Castleberry Hill. "The name Snake Nation is of unknown derivation that was used by the public press during the late-1840s and early 1850s to identify a settlement along Peters Street from the railroad crossing South Fair Street (that was) devoted almost entirely to the criminal and immoral element." Franklin Garrett confirms in his Atlanta and Environs. When the 'Orderly' party won the election for mayor, a large body of Atlantans raided Snake Nation and tried to burn it down." The building-Stable 1897, home to the studio, escaped the fire. Over the years they have rented studios to fellow creative Atlantans; Herman Howard, Marcia Wood, William Downs, Patrick Brennan, JD Walsh, John Otte, Paul Pendergrass, and Spencer Sloan.