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U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks in Atlanta at the dedication ceremony for Techwood Homes, the nation's first public housing project, on November 29, 1935.
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The original Southern Bell Telephone Building in Atlanta, pictured in 2008, was designed by architect P. Thornton Marye in the late 1920s. The art deco-style building was advertised as the city's "first modernistic skyscraper." The building's original six stories were extended to fourteen in the 1940s and topped with a tower in the 1960s.
Photograph by Mary Ann Sullivan
The Atlanta Terminal Station, pictured circa 1905, was designed in a Renaissance revival style by architect P. Thornton Marye. The structure, a pioneer work in reinforced concrete, was razed in 1971.
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St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Atlanta, pictured in 2005, was built in 1906. The church was designed in the Gothic revival style by architect P. Thornton Marye, in association with A. Ten Eyck Brown.
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The Fox Theatre in Atlanta, pictured from the south in 2002, was originally designed as the Yaraab Temple by the architectural firm Marye, Alger, and Vinour. The building opened as a theater in 1929.
Photograph by Mary Ann Sullivan
Atlanta City Hall, pictured in 1942, was designed by G. Lloyd Preacher in the neo-Gothic style. Completed in 1930, the building stands at the corner of Washington and Mitchell streets.
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University Hospital in Augusta, pictured in the 1920s, was designed by Atlanta architect G. Lloyd Preacher. The building was completed in 1915 and razed in 1991.
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Architect G. Lloyd Preacher's Briarcliff Hotel, also known as the "Seven Fifty," was built in Atlanta on the corner of Ponce de Leon and North Highland avenues in 1924-25.
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A. Ten Eyck Brown's finest work of the 1930s, and the largest construction project in the city at the lowest ebb of the depression, was the Federal Post Office Annex (1931-33; Alfredo Barili Jr. and W. Humphreys, associate architects), now the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Building.
Image from Warren LeMay
The Fulton County courthouse, located in Atlanta, was designed by A. Ten Eyck Brown, with Morgan and Dillon, and built in 1911-14. The courthouse is an example of neoclassical revival/Beaux-Arts classicism architecture.
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The Edward H. Inman (1925-28) House in Atlanta, also known as Swan House, is one of Philip Trammell Shutze's best-known works with the partnership Hentz, Adler and Shutze. Mrs. Inman chose the swan motif from which the house gets its name.
Philip Shutze designed this Rich's Department Store in Atlanta, which was built by the architect firm Hentz, Reid, and Adler in 1924.
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Pringle and Smith's eleven-story W. W. Orr Building (1930) was one of their five landmark Atlanta skyscrapers.
Photograph by Warren LeMay
Pringle and Smith's Beaux-Arts style W. W. Orr Building (1930) also incorporated more "modern" art deco elements.
Photograph by Jessica Higgins
Pringle and Smith's William-Oliver Building (1930) in Atlanta is an award-winning National Register Building.
Photograph by Warren LeMay
Francis Smith's career culminated in projects for the Cathedral of St. Philip on Peachtree Road, including the Mikell Memorial Chapel (1947), Hall of Bishops (1955), and the cathedral itself (1960-63), the latter two projects in association with Ayers and Godwin.
Photograph by John Phelan
The practice of Atlanta architect Leila Ross Wilburn emerged from and reflected the values of the Craftsman movement. Craftsman architecture promoted craftsmanship, solid construction, family life, and egalitarian values embodied in small houses for middle-class Americans.
Image from Cynthia Jennings
Burge and Stevens's Peachtree Hills Apartments (1938) is a complex of flat-roofed Modernist apartments with industrial wrap-around windows and balconies promising sunshine and fresh air in a housing unit that echoed European "International style" projects.
Photograph by Darby Carl Sanders, New Georgia Encyclopedia
Ivey and Crook's Druid Hills Methodist Church (1953) in Atlanta is a prime example of the firm's use of the two-story portico and classical steeple in their church designs.
Photograph by Darby Carl Sanders, New Georgia Encyclopedia
The architectural firm Ivey and Crook executed extensive school commissions, including major work at Emory University, where one of the firm's earliest projects was the Candler Library (1924).
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