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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.
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The five-story Atlanta Constitution Building was constructed in 1947 and designed by Robert and Company at a cost of $3 million. [1] [3] [4] The building housed the headquarters of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper during tenure of editor Ralph McGill until its consolidation with the Atlanta Journal only three years later, when James C. Cox of the Journal bought the Constitution.
The Georgia Tech Library is the academic library of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Located on Central Campus, the library consists of two connected main buildings: the S. Price Gilbert Memorial Library, which opened in 1953, and Crosland Tower, which opened in 1969 as the library's graduate addition.
One Georgia Center (formerly known as the Life of Georgia Building) is a skyscraper in SoNo, Atlanta, at the intersection of West Peachtree Street and North Avenue. Completed in 1968, the 24-story building is notable for its Georgia marble exterior.
Note: many unincorporated communities in DeKalb County and Cobb County, Georgia adjacent to Atlanta, including Druid Hills CDP and North Druid Hills, both in DeKalb County and Cumberland, Georgia and Vinings, Georgia, both in Cobb County use "Atlanta" in their postal address but are not part of the City of Atlanta.
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The home of Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter, president and first lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981, is located at 209 Woodland Drive in Plains, Georgia, United States. It is the only house that the Carters ever owned, and they occupied it from 1961 until Rosalynn's death in 2023 and Jimmy's the following year . [ 1 ]