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The Atlanta Urban Design Commission was established by city ordinance in 1975. [1] In 1989, the city enacted its current historic preservation ordinance. [1] Since that time, the city has designated more than seventy individual properties and eighteen districts. [1] There are specific criteria for each type of designation. [2]
Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations (2006). Harvey, Bruce, and Lynn Watson-Powers. "The eyes of the world are upon us: A look at the Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895." Atlanta History 39#1 (1995): 5-11. Hanley, John. The Archdiocese of Atlanta. A History (2006), The Roman ...
The organization is free for all members of the community and gives feedback on zoning changes and other development throughout the neighborhood to the City Zoning Department. In the 1990s, major revitalization efforts coalesced into the Peoplestown Revitalization Corporation which has set up a neighborhood watch program and other safety ...
In 1882, Atlanta City Hall was relocated to the old chamber of commerce building, which was four stories tall and located on the northeast corner of Pryor and Hunter, across Hunter (now Martin Luther King Jr. Drive) from the site of the Fulton County Courthouse. It was the city hall from 1882 to 1911, leaving the same year that the Courthouse ...
Layout of Atlanta's five wards (1854–1871) The 1848 charter only specified election of six citywide councilmembers, but on January 9, 1854, an ordinance was adopted that divided the town into five wards and two councilmen from each ward would be elected to coincide with the completion of the first official city hall.
Atlanta History Center documents show references to the name Pearl Park, after the daughter of a developer who built houses directly to the east of the mill houses near modern-day Pearl Street. The mill, at its height, employed 2,600 people. A protracted strike in 1914-15 failed to unionize the factory's workforce. For over half a century ...
In May 1990, [9] the city of Atlanta bought the building for $12 million, with plans to place 2,000 police and fire employees there, and later rent space out to county, state, and federal agencies. The city subsequently moved the central offices of its police department and fire department into the building.
While the games experienced transportation and accommodation problems and, despite extra security precautions, there was the Centennial Olympic Park bombing, [66] the spectacle was a watershed event in Atlanta's history. For the first time in Olympic history, every one of the record 197 national Olympic committees invited to compete sent ...