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The term building, as in outbuilding, can be used to refer to historically and functionally related units, such as a courthouse and a jail, or a barn and a house. [1] Buildings included on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP-listed buildings) must have all of their basic structural elements as parts of buildings, such as ells and ...
In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic district significant. Government agencies, at the state, national, and local level in the United States ...
Ten Park Place Building (Thornton Building) 10 Park Pl., NE 1989-10-23 Landmark The Castle: 87 15th St., NW 1989-12-22 Historic The Temple: 1589 Peachtree St., NE 1989-10-23 Landmark [4] Yes [5] Washington, Booker T., High School: 45 Whitehouse Dr., SW 1989-10-14 Landmark Yes Wimbish House (Atlanta Woman's Club) 1150 Peachtree Street, NE 2002 ...
A council house, corporation house or council flat is a form of British public housing built by local authorities. A council estate is a building complex containing a number of council houses and other amenities like schools and shops. Construction took place mainly from 1919 to 1980s, as a result of the Housing Act 1919. Though more council ...
The Decent Homes Standard is a technical standard for public housing introduced [when?] by the United Kingdom government. It underpinned the Decent Homes Programme brought in by the Blair ministry (Labour party) which aimed to provide a minimum standard of housing conditions for those housed in the public sector - i.e. in council housing or by housing associations.
Federal Correctional Institution, Atlanta; Fire Station 19 (Atlanta, Georgia) Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant (Atlanta) Forsyth-Walton Building; Fort Walker (Grant Park) Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills; Fulton County Airport (Georgia) Fulton County Courthouse (Georgia) Fulton County Jail
Home rule in the United States relates to the authority of a constituent part of a U.S. state to exercise powers of governance; i.e.: whether such powers must be specifically delegated to it by the state (typically by legislative action) or are generally implicitly allowed unless specifically denied by state-level action.
In 1911, the city hall moved to what once the U.S. Post Office and Customs House, located on the north side of Marietta Street between Forsyth and Fairlie. Purchased from the U.S. federal government by Atlanta mayor Robert Maddox for $70,000 (equivalent to $2.3 million in 2023), this imposing structure served as city hall for nearly twenty years.