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Phipps Plaza, an upscale shopping mall in the Buckhead area of Atlanta, was built in 1969 by the architectural firm FABRAP. The mall was expanded and renovated in the early 1990s by the firm Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback, and Associates.
Courtesy of Georgia Department of Economic Development.
The food court at the Mall of Georgia, built in Buford during the late 1990s, was designed to recall the Union Station train depot in Atlanta. The largest shopping center in Georgia, the mall covers 1.7 million square feet on a 500-acre site.
Courtesy of Georgia Department of Economic Development.
The 634-acre campus of Georgia Southern University in Statesboro features landscaped lawns, pine forests, and two lakes. Walkways wind through the campus and connect the main academic buildings.
Courtesy of Georgia Southern University
An early sketch, circa 1850, of the University of Georgia in Athens depicts the Franklin College quadrangle as seen from the southwest across Broad Street. The architecture of the campus was modeled after that of Yale University in Connecticut, the alma mater of Abraham Baldwin, UGA's first president.
Georgia Normal and Industrial College in Milledgeville, circa 1913. The college, known today as Georgia College and State University, was founded in 1889. The campus employs a quadrangle design on land originally used for a state prison.
Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #bal001.
Spelman Seminary in Atlanta, pictured circa 1912-13, was founded in 1881 and became Spelman College in 1924. Five years later, the Atlanta University Center formed, joining the school with other African American institutions in the city.
Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, # ful0992c-86.
A public school building in Washington, the seat of Wilkes County, is pictured in the late 1800s.
Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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Noonday School in Cobb County was one of many one-room schoolhouses found throughout Georgia during the nineteenth century. The bank of side windows is a typical feature of such structures.
Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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A Pure Oil Company service station, pictured in 1937, sells tires, motor oil, and gasoline to motorists in Dalton. The Pure Oil Company built standardized gas stations, designed to look like English cottages, across Georgia during the 1920s and 1930s.
Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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The Rosier's Tourist Court in Midway, on U.S. Highway 17, is pictured in 1936.
Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, # lib021.
Fred's Famous Peanuts is a roadside stand in White County that sells a variety of peanuts--including boiled, roasted, and fried--to travelers headed to and from Helen. The store, open spring through autumn, also offers jams, honeys, mountain crafts, and a racquetball court.
Courtesy of Explore Georgia, Photograph by Geoff L. Johnson.
The Stuckey's restaurant and store chain began as a roadside pecan stand outside of Eastman in the early 1930s. By the 1960s, the stores, which catered to travelers, had spread across the country. This Stuckey's location, located in Altamont, Illinois, features the chain's distinctive teal roof.
Courtesy of Stuckey's Corporation
New automobiles are displayed at a Pontiac showroom in Fulton County in 1941. Such showrooms were often located in downtown areas until the 1950s, when dealerships began to open along major thoroughfares heading away from towns.
Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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A peanut sculpture, featuring a replica of U.S. president Jimmy Carter's famous smile, stands at the entrance of Plains, Carter's hometown. Before entering state politics in the early 1960s, Carter ran his family's peanut farm and warehousing business. He was elected president in 1976.
Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington
Built in the early 1840s by Andrew McSelland Couey and his sons, this single-pen log house is one of the earliest pioneer homes in Chattooga County. Because the original site in Tidings was needed for the widening of U.S. Highway 27, the house was moved in 1995 to Dowdy Park in Summerville.
Photograph by Shelia J. Cothran, City of Summerville
Springfield Baptist Church in Augusta, founded in 1773, is one of the oldest Black congregations in the United States. The cornerstone for the current church building was laid in 1897.
Courtesy of Augusta Convention and Visitors Bureau
Unrestored shotgun houses line a street in Macon. The shotgun, a rectangular house type that is one room wide and two to four rooms deep, may have developed from a West African architectural tradition.
Courtesy of Elizabeth Lyon
The Wrightsville railroad depot, located in the seat of Johnson County, was built in 1900 by the Wrightsville and Tennille Railroad. Pictured circa 1915, the depot was restored duringthe 1990s and today houses the Wrightsville–Johnson County Chamber of Commerce and the Johnson County Development Authority.
Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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Mill villages were a prevalent form of vernacular architecture in Georgia during the industrial era. King Mill appears in the background of this view of Augusta, ca. 1912 to 1915.
Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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The owners of this cabin appear in front of their home in Union Point, Greene County, ca. 1900. The timber for such cabins was usually cut and hewn on the building site.
Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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A family poses in front of its mill house, located in the Chattanooga Avenue area of Dalton, in 1919 after winning a contest sponsored by a textile mill for the most attractive yard.
Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #wtf260.
Jordan Cabin, located near Davisboro in Washington County, is an example of a dogtrot-type house. The dogtrot is a two-room house with an open center passage between the two rooms.
From The Georgia Catalog, Historic American Building Survey: A Guide to the Architecture of the State, by J. Linley
Rowhouses, a widely recognized historic house type found primarily in urban areas, are formed by contiguous houses of the type known as "side hallway." Side-hallway houses are two rooms deep with an interior stair hall along one side of the building.
Courtesy of Explore Georgia, Photograph by Ralph Daniel.
The Historic Columbus Foundation office is located at 708 Broadway, in what is still known as the Woodruff Farm House. The double-pen structure dates to the 1840s and was moved to Broadway in the 1980s.
Courtesy of Historic Columbus Foundation
The Nathan Van Boddie House (1836), located near LaGrange, represents the mature work of architect Collin Rogers. This Georgian-plan house is dominated by a two-story temple-front Ionic portico with a modillion cornice.
In 1969 Robert Griggs purchased and restored this Queen Anne-style house on Euclid Avenue, thereby launching the Inman Park restoration movement.
Photograph by Ted Bazemore
