In 1910, Asa Jr. moved from the fashionable Inman Park neighborhood where his father also had a mansion, to a "ramshackle" farmhouse on Briarcliff Farm, 42 acres (17 ha).

It was inaugurated in November 1925 in a recital by family friend Palmer Christian, which was broadcast over radio station WSB.

[6] Candler collected exotic birds and animals in a menagerie held at his estate with cages designed by architect Bodin.

A neighbor sued and won a $10,000 settlement because "a baboon jumped over the wall of the zoo and devoured $60 in currency out of her purse".

The planned veterans' hospital never emerged, and the estate was used to house the Georgian Clinic (later the DeKalb County Addiction Center), which opened in 1953 as the first alcohol treatment facility in Georgia.

[2] From 1965 to 1997, the estate housed the Georgia Mental Health Institute in a multi-story tower surrounded by multiple cottages connected by tunnels.

[10] The mansion is a location for the TV show Doom Patrol according to a making-of extra on the season one Blu-ray.