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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]
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 ...
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.
BRICK - Atlanta Bread Bakery Cafe, which has had a restaurant at Brick Plaza for more than two decades, has closed its doors. Citing "unforeseen circumstances," the restaurant went out of business ...
The Atlanta headquarters outgrew their facility and moved to a larger six-story building in 1924. [2] Also during this period, J.J. Haverty and Amos Rhodes formed another partnership, this time to erect the Rhodes-Haverty Building, which would remain Atlanta's tallest structure until 1954. [4]
Rhodes Furniture had grown to 70 stores by 1990. [7] When bought by Heilig-Meyers in 1996, Rhodes was the fourth-largest furniture retailer in the United States with $430 million in revenue. Heilig-Meyers made the Rhodes stores more upscale, but the plan backfired and customers deserted the stores. Heilig-Meyers sold Rhodes in 1999.
In 1885, he started an emporium in downtown Atlanta with his brother, Charles. In 1889, he partnered with Amos G. Rhodes to start a law firm, which became known as Rhodes, Snook & Haverty after P. H. Snook joined it in 1894. In 1908, the Rhodes-Haverty partnership was dissolved, at which point Haverty founded the Havertys furniture company ...
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