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One Ninety One Peachtree Tower is a 235 m (771 ft) 50-story skyscraper in Atlanta, Georgia. Designed by Johnson / Burgee Architects and Kendall/Heaton Associates Inc, the building was completed in 1990 and is the fourth tallest in the city , winning the BOMA Building of the Year Awards the next year, repeating in 1998 and 2003.
It is located at 191 Peachtree Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia. [ 2 ] Unlike police forces, which are accountable to the public, Atlanta Police Foundation is accountable solely to its own board of directors. [ 3 ]
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.
Street level view of the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel. The first building on the site was the first official Georgia Governor's Mansion in Atlanta, a Victorian-style home purchased by the state in 1870 at the southwest corner of Peachtree Street and Cain Street (later International Boulevard, now Andrew Young International Boulevard).
Peachtree Center is a district located in Downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Most of the structures that make up the district were designed by Atlanta architect John C. Portman Jr. A defining feature of the Peachtree Center is a network of enclosed pedestrian sky bridges suspended above the street-level, which have garnered criticism for discouraging ...
It is the third-tallest in Atlanta, reaching a height of 820 feet (250 m) with 50 stories of office space with a total building area of 1,187,676 sq.ft. [5] When the slender concrete core was completed in October 1986, it was the tallest slipformed skyscraper in the country. [6]
In 1959, Whitehall Street SW, which meets Peachtree Street NE at Five Points, was renamed "Peachtree Street SW", and the Eastern Continental Divide follows this street, so a small portion of the story may be technically correct. Atlanta's primary water source is the Chattahoochee and much of the water is pumped over the watershed.
Immediately across Peachtree Street is the English-American Building, commonly referred to as the Flatiron Building. Rhodes–Haverty Building at lower left (dwarfed by the Equitable Building ), looking from north to south.