191 Peachtree Tower
191 Peachtree Tower is a 1991 downtown Atlanta skyscraper designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee in the postmodern style.
Photo: Connor.carey at en.wikipedia , CC BY-SA 3.0
City guide
architecture in Atlanta.
61 buildings worth a detour, each with what to look for. Open them on the map, or walk them with the iPhone app, which collects each one you photograph.
Landmarks
The buildings that define the city's architecture.
Atlanta City Hall
Atlanta City Hall is a Gothic Revival civic building in downtown Atlanta, designed by architect G. Lloyd Preacher. It serves as the seat of city government and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: Gabriel Benzur , Public domain
Atlanta Fulton County Central Library
The Atlanta Fulton County Central Library, completed in 1980, was designed by Marcel Breuer with Hamilton P. Smith, downtown Atlanta's only commission by Breuer in Georgia. Built in the Brutalist style, it is considered a textbook exemplar of the idiom and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: Marc Merlin , CC BY-SA 4.0
Bank of America Plaza
Bank of America Plaza, completed in 1992 in Midtown Atlanta, was designed by Kevin Roche, a Pritzker Prize-winning architect. Built in the postmodern style, it is the tallest building in Atlanta, topped by a distinctive spire that is highly visible from the street.
Photo: Connor.carey at English Wikipedia , CC BY-SA 3.0
Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a Romanesque church in downtown Atlanta, designed by architect Walter T. Downing. It holds basilica status and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: ZeWrestler , CC BY-SA 3.0
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Candler Building
The Candler Building is a Beaux-Arts tower in downtown Atlanta, completed in 1906, counted among the city's early skyscrapers and tied to a named benefactor's history.
Photo: Mike , CC BY 2.0
Edward C. Peters House
The Edward C. Peters House is a Shingle style residence in midtown Atlanta, designed by architect G. L. Norrman.
Photo: Ganeshk , CC BY-SA 3.0
Elbert P. Tuttle United States Court of Appeals Building
The Elbert P. Tuttle United States Court of Appeals Building is a federal courthouse in downtown Atlanta, designed in the Renaissance Revival style by James Knox Taylor, who served as Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury.
Photo: Eoghanacht , Public domain
Flatiron Building
The Flatiron Building in downtown Atlanta was completed in 1897 to a design by Bradford Gilbert, making it one of the city's earliest skyscrapers. Built in the Neoclassical style, its narrow, wedge-shaped footprint gives it a distinctive presence on the street, and it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: Eoghanacht , Public domain
Fountain Hall
Fountain Hall was completed in 1882 to a design by G. L. Norrman in the High Victorian Gothic style. A prominent campus landmark with a strong facade presence, it is designated a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Fox Theatre
The Fox Theatre in Midtown Atlanta is an elaborate atmospheric theatre built in the Moorish Revival style. It is designated a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with an ornate facade and marquee that remain highly visible from the street.
Photo: Frank Schulenburg , CC BY-SA 4.0
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Freeman Ford Building
The Freeman Ford Building is a downtown Atlanta structure in the Art Deco style, designed by G. Lloyd Preacher, a prominent Atlanta architect.
Photo: Geoff Bartlett , CC BY-SA 3.0
Fulton County Courthouse
The Fulton County Courthouse is a downtown Atlanta courthouse designed by A. Ten Eyck Brown in the Beaux-Arts style.
Georgia State Capitol
The Georgia State Capitol is a domed civic building in downtown Atlanta, built in the Renaissance style. It serves as the seat of Georgia's state government and is a National Historic Landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: Ken Lund , CC BY-SA 2.0
Grady Memorial Hospital
Grady Memorial Hospital is a downtown Atlanta building completed in 1892 in the Romanesque Revival style. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: Marc Merlin , CC BY-SA 4.0
Herndon Home
The Herndon Home was built in 1908 as the residence of Alonzo Herndon, designed by Adrienne McNeil Herndon in the Neoclassical style. It is a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: GreaterPonce665 , CC BY-SA 4.0
Landmark
Hyatt Regency Atlanta
The Hyatt Regency Atlanta, completed in 1967 in downtown Atlanta, was designed by John C. Portman Jr. The hotel pioneered the modern atrium-hotel typology, an origin story that has been widely retold, and its tower massing remains a distinctive presence on the street.
Photo: Connor.carey at English Wikipedia , CC BY-SA 3.0
Imperial Hotel (Atlanta)
The Imperial Hotel is a downtown Atlanta building completed in 1910, designed by architect Edward Bennett Dougherty in the Chicago School style. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: Ganeshk , CC BY-SA 3.0
J. Mack Robinson College of Business Administration Building
The J. Mack Robinson College of Business Administration Building, completed in 1901 in downtown Atlanta, was designed by Philip Trammell Shutze, a renowned classical architect. Built in the Beaux-Arts style, it is a campus building with a visible facade, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: Unknown pre-1923 , Public domain
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Medical Arts Building
The Medical Arts Building is a Beaux-Arts building in Atlanta's Midtown neighborhood, designed by architect G. Lloyd Preacher. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: Ildar Sagdejev (Specious) , CC BY-SA 4.0
Odd Fellows Building and Auditorium
The Odd Fellows Building and Auditorium was completed in 1912 in the Tudor Revival style, designed by William Augustus Edwards.
Photo: Historic American Buildings Survey, creator; David J. Kaminsky, photographer , Public domain
One Atlantic Center
One Atlantic Center, completed in 1987 in Midtown Atlanta, was designed by Philip Johnson, a Pritzker Prize-winning architect. Built in the postmodern style, the tower is capped by a distinctive Gothic-referencing spire that makes it a prominent Midtown landmark, highly visible from the street.
Photo: Atlantacitizen at English Wikipedia , CC BY-SA 3.0
Peachtree Station
Peachtree Station was built in 1918, designed by the Atlanta firm Hentz, Reid & Adler in the Renaissance Revival style. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: UW , CC BY-SA 3.0
Reid House
Reid House is a Neoclassical residence in Atlanta's Midtown neighborhood, designed by architect Philip Trammell Shutze. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: Clyn137 , CC BY-SA 3.0
Rhodes Hall
Rhodes Hall is a Romanesque Revival landmark on Peachtree Street in midtown Atlanta, designed by Atlanta architect Willis F. Denny, and it is known locally as a castle-like presence on the street.
Rhodes-Haverty Building
The Rhodes-Haverty Building is a downtown Atlanta tower designed by architect Francis Palmer Smith in the Romanesque Revival style. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: Ganeshk , CC BY-SA 3.0
Rio Shopping Center
The Rio Shopping Center is a 1987 retail development in Atlanta's Midtown neighborhood, designed by the architecture firm Arquitectonica in the postmodern style.
St. Mark Methodist Church (Atlanta, Georgia)
St. Mark Methodist Church was built in 1903 in Atlanta's Midtown neighborhood, designed by architect Willis F. Denny in the Gothic Revival style. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: Neonorange , CC BY-SA 3.0
Landmark
The Temple
The Temple is a synagogue in Atlanta's Midtown neighborhood, designed by architect Philip Trammell Shutze. It was the target of a 1958 bombing, and the building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: Edward Young Clarke , Public domain
Winecoff Hotel
The Winecoff Hotel was built in 1913 in downtown Atlanta, designed by architect William Lee Stoddart in the Neoclassical style. The hotel was the site of the deadliest hotel fire in United States history, and the building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: Eoghanacht , Public domain
Notable buildings
Worth a stop when you're nearby.
Landmark
Atlanta Biltmore Hotel and Biltmore Apartments
The Atlanta Biltmore Hotel and Biltmore Apartments in Midtown was designed by Schultze & Weaver, a firm known for its hotel work. The complex is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Landmark
Callanwolde Fine Arts Center
Callanwolde Fine Arts Center began as a grand estate house, designed by architect Henry Hornbostel and completed in 1917, before its later conversion into an arts center. It is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: Dawn DeLucia , CC BY-SA 3.0
Landmark
Dixie Coca-Cola Bottling Company Plant
The Dixie Coca-Cola Bottling Company Plant in downtown Atlanta was a bottling facility tied to the origins of the Coca-Cola business. It carries both National Historic Landmark and National Register of Historic Places designations.
Photo: Ganeshk , CC BY-SA 3.0
Georgian Terrace Hotel
The Georgian Terrace Hotel is a Moorish Revival hotel on Peachtree Street in midtown Atlanta, designed by architect William Lee Stoddart.
Healey Building
The Healey Building is a Gothic Revival office building in downtown Atlanta, designed by the architecture firm Morgan & Dillon. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: Eoghanacht , Public domain
Landmark
High Museum of Art
The High Museum of Art in midtown Atlanta traces to 1905 and was shaped by two Pritzker Prize-winning architects, Richard Meier and Renzo Piano, whose work gives the museum its street-facing facade.
Photo: w:User:Atlantacitizen , CC BY-SA 3.0
Landmark
Hurt Building
The Hurt Building is a flatiron-shaped office tower in downtown Atlanta, designed by architect J.E.R. Carpenter. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Loew's Grand Theatre
Loew's Grand Theatre in downtown Atlanta was built in 1893 in the Romanesque Revival style. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
The Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is a downtown Atlanta church built in the Gothic Revival style. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: dbking , CC BY 2.0
Southern Bell Telephone Company Building
The Southern Bell Telephone Company Building is a downtown Atlanta building completed in 1929 in the Art Deco style. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
SunTrust Plaza
SunTrust Plaza is a postmodern skyscraper on the downtown Atlanta skyline, completed in 1992 to a design by John C. Portman Jr.
Photo: Ckerr78 , CC BY-SA 4.0
Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel
The Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel is a modern-architecture hotel tower in downtown Atlanta, completed in 1976 to a design by John C. Portman Jr.
Photo: Michael Hohimer from Atlanta, GA, U.S.A , CC BY 2.0
Hidden gems
Fine buildings that fewer people seek out.
Academy of Medicine
The Academy of Medicine in Midtown is a Neoclassical institutional building listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Anne Wallace Branch-Carnegie Library of Atlanta
The Anne Wallace Branch-Carnegie Library of Atlanta is a Neoclassical library building designed by Whitfield & King. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, a small monument to the Carnegie-era push to build public libraries.
Atlanta First United Methodist Church
Atlanta First United Methodist Church, built in 1903 in downtown Atlanta, is a Gothic Revival church listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: Ganeshk , CC BY-SA 3.0
Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons
The Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons was completed in 2011, designed by the firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, and serves as a prominent contemporary academic building on its campus.
Photo: Gtlibrary , CC BY-SA 3.0
Empire Manufacturing Company Building
The Empire Manufacturing Company Building is a former manufacturing building done in the Art Deco style and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: Brogers784 , CC BY-SA 3.0
First Congregational Church
First Congregational Church in downtown Atlanta is a Renaissance Revival church listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: Ganeshk , CC BY-SA 3.0
First Universalist Church (Atlanta, Georgia)
The First Universalist Church in downtown Atlanta is an English Gothic building housing a Universalist congregation.
Photo: Unknown. Original image made 1900. , Public domain
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Hotel Indigo Atlanta Midtown
Hotel Indigo Atlanta Midtown occupies a 1925 Colonial Revival building designed by Francis Palmer Smith, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Kriegshaber House
The Kriegshaber House is a Beaux-Arts residence designed by Willis F. Denny, a notable Atlanta architect. It is a contributing property within a National Register of Historic Places listing.
Photo: Keizers , CC BY-SA 3.0
Leyden House
The Leyden House is a Greek Revival building in downtown Atlanta, its columned facade a small survivor of the style's popularity for houses of its period.
Landmark
Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Building
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Building in downtown Atlanta was designed by architect A. Ten Eyck Brown and completed in 1933. It is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places and carries the name of Atlanta's most famous native son.
Photo: Dreman1731 , CC BY-SA 3.0
North Avenue Presbyterian Church
North Avenue Presbyterian Church is a Romanesque Revival church in Midtown, home to a long-standing congregation, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Olympia Building
The Olympia Building is a 1936 downtown Atlanta building designed by Ivey and Crook in the Streamline Moderne style, notable Moderne styling for the city.
Photo: Keizers , CC BY-SA 3.0
Piedmont Park Apartments
Piedmont Park Apartments in Midtown was built in 1911 to designs by Leila Ross Wilburn, one of the notably rare early female architects working in Atlanta. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and shows American Craftsman styling.
Photo: Cynthia Jennings , CC BY-SA 3.0
Southern Dairies
Southern Dairies is a former dairy plant built in the Art Deco style, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: Brogers784 , CC BY-SA 3.0
Telephone Factory Lofts
Telephone Factory Lofts occupies a former telephone factory built in the Moderne style and now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: Keizers , CC BY-SA 3.0
W. W. Orr Building
The W. W. Orr Building is a 1930 Midtown building in the Art Deco style, designed by Pringle and Smith.
Photo: Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States , CC0
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William H. Crogman School
The William H. Crogman School is a named historic school building in the Romanesque Revival style, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: Ramsey Eden , CC BY-SA 3.0
William Perrin Nicolson House
The William Perrin Nicolson House is a Midtown residence in the Colonial Revival style, designed by Walter T. Downing and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: Juli Kearns , CC BY-SA 3.0
