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By the late 1960s, Peachtree Street between Eighth and Fourteenth Streets had become a center of hippie culture known as The Strip [19] [17] [20] Large-scale commercial development began with Colony Square, the first mixed-use development in the Southeast, which was built between 1969 and 1973. The MARTA subway line opened in 1981. In the 1980s ...
Joseph K. Orr, 933 Peachtree Street, Atlanta Georgia (home stood on the SE corner of Peachtree & 14th Street) Edward T. Brown Residence 968 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia Walter T. Downing (home was directly across the street from Colony Square Tower #2) Wilmer L. Moore Residence 964 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia. (home stood on NW ...
Colony Square is a mixed-use development and sub-district in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, located on Peachtree Street in between 14th and 15th Streets. The oldest high-rise development in Midtown, the sub-district was built between 1969 and 1975, with Henri Jova of Jova/Daniels/Busby serving as principal architect. [1]
The Whitehall Street Retail Historic District is a historic district in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The district is centered on Peachtree Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and includes Broad, Forsyth, and Mitchell Streets. [1] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
Aside from introducing Atlanta to the postmodern architectural idiom of the 80s, this tower is notable for essentially creating what is now the Midtown commercial district. Located at the then-remote corner of 14th and West Peachtree Street over a mile from Downtown , this building nevertheless opened nearly fully occupied and thus attracted ...
Peachtree Street, downtown Atlanta, 1974. In 2007, Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin unveiled a $1 billion, 20-year plan to transform Peachtree Street with streetscape upgrades, public parks, buried utilities, and the addition of a streetcar, based on a sixteen-month study by the Peachtree Corridor Partnership task force. [7] [8]
Downe St. (alternative name, 1890s, Piedmont to Peachtree); Stewart (between Crescent and West Peachtree) 13th St. Center St. (alternative name, 1890s, Piedmont to Peachtree); Cleveland Street (between Crescent and West Peachtree) 14th St. Wilson Ave. (alternative name, 1890s) Andrew J. Hairston Pl. (as of April 30, 2014) [1] Newport Street
By 1872 the Atlanta Constitution called it "a considerable little town outside the corporate limits of Atlanta" which had two grocery stores. [1] Blooming Hill is commemorated by a sculpture at the Hyatt Midtown hotel. [4] During this period 10th Street was also known as Bleckley Avenue. [5] By 1883 the area was rechristened "North Atlanta". [6]