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Located on Central Campus, the Georgia Tech Student Center is dedicated to recreation and socialization for Georgia Tech students. Constructed in 1970, the building initially covered about 100,000 square feet and contained, among other features, a Post Office , cafeteria, ballroom, and one of the only on-campus bowling alleys in the Southeast .
The area is a Registered Historic Place and part of the central campus of Georgia Tech. Located in Midtown Atlanta , Georgia , United States , it is roughly bounded by North Avenue on the South, Bobby Dodd Stadium , a 55,000 seat football stadium on the East, Bobby Dodd Way on the North and Cherry Street on the West.
Atlanta during the Civil War, c. 1864 The idea of a technology school in Georgia was introduced in 1865 during the Reconstruction period. Two former Confederate officers, Major John Fletcher Hanson (an industrialist) and Nathaniel Edwin Harris (a politician and eventually Governor of Georgia), who had become prominent citizens in the town of Macon, Georgia, after the Civil War, believed that ...
In September 2015, the Georgia Institute of Technology received a $30 million grant from the Kendeda Fund for the purposes of building a green building on the institute's campus. [3] The grant was the single largest donation by the Kendeda Fund and one of the largest ever received by the institute. [ 4 ]
In 2000, the building was financed by a $15 million donation from successful internet entrepreneur and former Georgia Tech student Chris Klaus. [1] [2] Klaus was a founder of both Kaneva and Internet Security Systems. [3] At the time of Klaus' contribution, it was the fifth-largest contribution by an individual in Georgia Tech's history. [1]
Alpharetta is a city in northern Fulton County, Georgia, United States, and part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. As of the 2020 U.S. census , Alpharetta's population was 65,818; [ 4 ] [ 5 ] in 2010, the population had been 57,551.
In 2003, the playing surface was renamed "Cremins Court" in honor of Bobby Cremins, Georgia Tech's head coach from 1979 to 2000. On February 21, 2008, the men's basketball game between Georgia Tech and the University of Virginia was cancelled due to a leak in the roof that was caused by hard rainfall that had accumulated over the day.
In 1947, Georgia was a single numbering plan area (NPA) with area code 404. In 1954, 912 was assigned to its southern and central areas. The state operated with two area codes until May 3, 1992, when area code 706 was created for the two separate areas outside of the metro Atlanta area.