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The Hard Rock Cafe Atlanta is located in the Hotel District. As its name suggests, the Hotel District is the home of many of Atlanta's signature hotels. [1] Tourists coming to Atlanta for conventions typically stay in the hotels located in this district. Some of those hotels include: Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel; Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Largest hotel in Atlanta. Part of Peachtree Center. [46] Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead: 1990 25-story hotel in Buckhead. Originally built as the Hotel Nikko Atlanta and owned by Nikko Hotels. [47] Purchased by Hyatt in 1997. [48] Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta: 1992 Rabun, Rasche, Rector & Reece, Architects Located in the GLG Grand.
The hotel was also notable for its Peachtree Ballroom, which was the largest in Atlanta when it opened, seating 3,500 people. [14] It has since been surpassed by the Georgia International Convention Center, which lays claim to having the largest ballroom in the state of Georgia. [15] Westin Peachtree, center, background, Atlanta skyline
The Briarcliff Hotel, now the Briarcliff Summit, is located at 1050 Ponce de Leon Ave. NE (original address: 750 Ponce de Leon Ave.) in the Virginia Highland neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. Asa G. Candler, Jr. , the eccentric son of Coca-Cola magnate Asa Candler Sr., owned the real estate firm that built the Briarcliff in 1924.
The Hyatt Regency Atlanta is a business hotel located on Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Opened in 1967 as the Regency Hyatt House , John C. Portman Jr. 's revolutionary 22-story atrium design for the hotel has influenced hotel design enormously in the years since. [ 4 ]
Intended to be the new downtown for Atlanta, Peachtree Center emerged as a distinct district in the early 1970s as a networked realm of convention hotels, shopping galleries, and office buildings a quarter-mile north of Five Points. Peachtree Center is notable for its uniform embodiment of the modern architectural style popular at the time. Yet ...
Prior to the arrival of white settlers, Five Points was the intersection of two Creek Indian trails, the Peachtree Trail and the Sandtown Trail. In 1845, George Washington Collier opened a grocery store at what is now Five Points, and the store later served as Atlanta's first post office in 1846.
The Atlanta Cabana Motel was a 200-room motor hotel located at the southwest corner of Peachtree Street and 7th Street in Midtown Atlanta.It opened in 1958 and was razed in 2002; the site is now occupied by the 28-floor Spire residential tower.