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  2. Rhodes Hall - Wikipedia

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    Rhodes Hall is a Romanesque Revival 9,000-square-foot (840 m 2) house inspired by the Rhineland castles that Rhodes admired on a trip to Europe in the late 1890s. Architect Willis F. Denny designed the unique home with Stone Mountain granite, incorporating medieval Romanesque, Victorian, and Arts and Crafts designs as well as necessary adaptations for an early 20th-century home.

  3. Rhodes–Haverty Building - Wikipedia

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    The historic 21-story Rhodes–Haverty Building was, at the time of its construction in 1929, the tallest building in Atlanta, Georgia. Designed by Atlanta architects Pringle and Smith, the building was built by furniture magnates A. G. Rhodes of Rhodes Furniture and J. J. Haverty of Havertys. It remained the tallest building in Atlanta until ...

  4. Amos G. Rhodes - Wikipedia

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    Amos Giles Rhodes (1850–1928) was an Atlanta, Georgia furniture magnate. He was born in 1850 in Henderson, Kentucky. In 1875, he came to Atlanta as a laborer for the L & N Railroad. In 1879, he began a small furniture company which would grow into a large furniture business and make Rhodes a "pillar of the community".

  5. List of former Atlanta street names - Wikipedia

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    From its founding in 1847, Atlanta has had a penchant for frequent street renamings, even in the central business district, usually to honor the recently deceased.As early as 1903 (see section below), there were concerns about the confusion this caused, as "more than 225 streets of Atlanta have had from two to eight names" in the first decades of the city.

  6. Rhodes Center - Wikipedia

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    Remaining building of Rhodes Center in 2011 Back of remaining building of Rhodes Center showing developer's plans to market area as "Uptown Atlanta" Rhodes Center was Atlanta's first shopping center. It was built in 1937 by architects Ivey and Crook and was one of the largest real estate developments in Atlanta during the Depression. [1]

  7. List of oldest structures in Atlanta - Wikipedia

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    1883 Capital City Club - 7 John Portman Blvd NW, Atlanta, GA 30303; 1884 Central Presbyterian Church – 201 Washington St. SW; 1884 Georgia State Capitol building (begun), 206 Washington St. SW; 1885 Rockefeller Hall (Spelman College) – 350 Spelman Ln. SW; 1885 Wren's Nest, home of Joel Chandler Harris – 1050 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd ...

  8. Flatiron Building (Atlanta) - Wikipedia

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    Immediately across Peachtree is the historic Rhodes-Haverty Building, on the north corner with Williams Street. FlatironCity is now home to a Microsoft Innovation Center, Women's Entrepreneurship Institute and 20+ entrepreneurs and startups. In 2017, it was announced that a statue of Evander Holyfield would be installed in front of the building ...

  9. Boulevard (Atlanta) - Wikipedia

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    Atlanta Medical Center Shotgun houses on Auburn Avenue at Boulevard, part of the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site Federal Penitentiary on postcard from 1920 YoBoulevard! banner 2012 Boulevard is a street in and, as a corridor, a subdistrict, of the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood of Atlanta , Georgia .