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The Georgia State Capitol is an architecturally and historically significant building in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The building has been named a National Historic Landmark which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
The Equitable Building, completed in 1892, is generally regarded as the first high-rise in the city. [3] Atlanta went through a major building boom from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, during which the city saw the completion of 13 of its 40 tallest buildings, including the Bank of America Plaza, Truist Plaza, One Atlantic Center, and 191 Peachtree Tower.
The equestrian statue of John Brown Gordon is a monument on the grounds of the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.The monument, an equestrian statue, honors John Brown Gordon, a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War who later become a politician in post-Reconstruction era Georgia.
The current capitol building resides in the city of Atlanta. [1] Construction of the Atlanta capitol started on November 13, 1884. [1] The building took four and a half years and 250 men to complete. [1] The statue of Miss Freedom was installed in 1888. [2] Completion, and opening of the building, took place on March 20, 1889. [1]
Bank of America Plaza (colloquially called the pencil building [6]) is a supertall skyscraper between Midtown Atlanta and Downtown Atlanta.At 311.8 m (1,023 ft), as of February 2024 the tower is the 23rd tallest building in the United States, [7] the tallest building in the Southeastern region of the United States, [8] and the tallest building in any U.S. state capital, overtaking the 250 m ...
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 ...
Fulton County was established in 1853 from the western section of DeKalb, and in 1854, a combination Fulton County Court House and Atlanta City Hall was built– which would be razed 30 years later to make way for today's State Capitol building.
As the state capital, Atlanta is the site of most of Georgia's state government. The Georgia State Capitol building, located downtown, houses the offices of the governor, lieutenant governor and secretary of state, as well as the General Assembly. The Governor's Mansion is in a residential section of Buckhead.