Is Atlanta Losing Its

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• Is Atlanta Losing Its
• Early Modern Architectural Heritage?
• Robert Craig
• Atlanta History. XXXIX, 1, Spring 1995
• Photographs Amie Spinks

• Identifies 35 Modern Structures in 1995
• Art Deco
• Modern Classic
• Streamlined Moderne
• Modern

• Of those 35, as of early 2004
• 20 Razed
• 5 Parts Razed / Removed
• 7 Intact
• 3 Renovated

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Art Deco

• Troy Peerless Laundry Building
• 650 Glen Iris Drive, NE
• Isaac Moscovitz, 1929
• Extant - Lofts

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Modern Classic

• Techwood Homes
• Techwood Drive, N.W.
• Burge Stevens, 1934-35
• Razed

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Modern Classic

• Techwood Homes
• Techwood Drive, N.W.
• Burge Stevens, 1934-35
• Razed

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Modern Classic

• Olympia Building
• 23 Peachtree Street
• Ivey Crook, 1935
• Extant - Commercial Retail Space

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Modern Classic

• Rhodes Center
• 1490-1560 Peachtree Street
• Ivey Crook, 1937-39
• Parts Extant - Vacant

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Streamlined Moderne

• Firestone Building
• 1052 Peachtree St.
• Seward Legge, 1937
• Extant - Restaurant Bar

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Streamlined Moderne

• Greyhound Bus Terminal
• 81 International Boulevard, N.W.
• W.W. Arrasmith, 1940
• Parts Extant - garage

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Streamlined Moderne

• Irvingdale Farms Dairy
• 1130 Spring Street, N.W.
• Ivey Crook, 1945-1947
• Razed

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Streamlined Moderne

• Atlanta Constitution Building
• 149-153 Alabama Street, S.W. at Forsyth
• Robert Company, 1945-1947
• Slated for Demolition

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Streamlined Moderne

• Westinghouse Electric
• 1299 Northside Drive, N.W.
• Robert Company, 1954
• Extant - Renovated

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Modern

• Beck Gregg Hardware Company
• 217 Luckie Street, N.W.
• Burge Stevens, 1941
• Additions by Godwin Beckett, 1966, Stevens
  Wilkinson, 1968
• Razed

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Modern

• E. Rivers School
• 8 Peachtree Battle Avenue
• Stevens Wilkinson, 1949
• Extant - Renovated

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Modern

• R.K.O. Radio Pictures Building
• 195 Luckie Street
• Arthur Neil Robinson Sr. Jr., 1944-47
• Razed

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Modern

• Fire Station 23
• 1545 Howell Mill Road, N.W.
• Percy H. Perkins Jr., 1948
• Extant - Renovated

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Threatened Buildings

• Georgia State Archives Building
• 330 Capitol Ave., SE
• A. Thomas Bradbury Associates, Architects, 1965

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Threatened Buildings

• The Alcoa Building
• 1615 Peachtree Street
• Schell, Deeter Scott George A. Fuller,
  1955-1957