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Housing for the poor in early 20th century Atlanta: Tanyard Bottom a.k.a. Tech Flats, site of Centennial Place today. The movement to construct public housing in Atlanta began during the early 1930s. Charles Palmer, a conservative real estate developer, became concerned with the threat to property values posed by shantytowns so close to ...
In the 1970s the company expanded by acquiring firms in Atlanta, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. The first international Coldwell Banker office opened in Toronto, Canada in 1996. [6] Coldwell Banker & Company became a corporation in 1961, and went public in 1968. In 1981 it was bought by Sears, Roebuck, and became part of the Sears Financial Network.
City of Atlanta designated landmark and historic buildings and sites Building/Site Name Street Address Date Designated Designation Type Also on NRHP? Academy of Medicine: 875 West Peachtree St., N.W. 1989-10-23 Landmark Yes Andrews-Dunn House 2801 Andrews Dr., NW 1992-12-2 Landmark Atlanta City Hall: 68 Mitchell St., SE 1989-10-23 Landmark Yes
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.
The Richard B. Russell Federal Building is a 26-story International style building in Atlanta, Georgia, housing U.S. government agency offices and federal courts. [4]The building was constructed in 1978, on the site of the former Terminal Station, [5] which was razed in 1972, except for one platform retained by Southern Railway for its use.
It was the family home of Sara Huff, the author of the memoir My 80 Years in Atlanta. Jeremiah Huff built the house of pine and brick in 1854 or 1855 over the remnants of an 1830s log cabin. It was razed in 1954 [5] to make way for the Rushton Toy Factory building. This was covered on the front page of the Atlanta paper at the time. [6]
Home Park is a neighborhood of Atlanta in Georgia, US. It is bordered on the south by Georgia Tech, on the west by the railroad yards adjacent to Marietta Street and Brady Avenue, on the north by 16th Street at Atlantic Station, and on the east by Techwood Drive at I-75/85 (the Downtown Connector).
Joel Chandler Harris House, also known as The Wren's Nest or Snap Bean Farm, is a Queen Anne style house at 1050 Ralph D. Abernathy Blvd. (formerly Gordon Street.), SW. [3] [2] in Atlanta, Georgia. Built in 1870, it was home to Joel Chandler Harris, editor of the Atlanta Constitution and author of the Uncle Remus Tales, from 1881 until his ...