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The Pappenheimer family lived in the house until the 1930s, after which the house was used as a fraternity house for Georgia Tech students. [1]By 1941 [3] it had become an ear, nose and throat hospital called the Ponce de Leon Infirmary, founded by Dr. Murdock Equen.
Southern Railway's 1918 facility, named Peachtree Station but known locally as Brookwood Station, has been Atlanta's only long-distance passenger rail stop since 1970. Amtrak took over Southern's Crescent route in the '70s, which (as of 2015) continues to operate between New Orleans and N.Y. City .
Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta is a non-profit hospital. [9] In 1956, St. Joseph's Infirmary was the first hospital in the southeastern United States to perform open-heart surgery. The surgery was conducted by Dr. William Hopkins, who utilized a heart-lung machine of his own invention. Dr.
Emory Crawford Long Hospital was renamed "Emory University Hospital Midtown", effective February 13, 2009, in order to more clearly identify it as part of the university. [5] However, as part of Emory's commitment to honor a more than 100-year history of the original name, 'Crawford W. Long Memorial Hospital' is retained on exterior monuments.
The building is the only one of 10 structures on Central Atlanta Progress's 2003 list of downtown "eyesores" that has not been renovated or repurposed. [11] Therefore, the building remains on the updated list released in December 2009. [12] The building is included on The Georgia Trust's list of 2011 Places in Peril. [13]
This list of museums in Atlanta is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing ...
In November 1994, the Atlanta Empowerment Zone was established, a 10-year, $250 million federal program to revitalize Atlanta's 34 poorest neighborhoods including the Bluff. Scathing reports from both the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Georgia Department of Community Affairs revealed corruption, waste, bureaucratic ...
Psilotum is a genus of fern-like vascular plants.It is one of two genera in the family Psilotaceae commonly known as whisk ferns, the other being Tmesipteris.Plants in these two genera were once thought to be descended from the earliest surviving vascular plants, but more recent phylogenies place them as basal ferns, as a sister group to Ophioglossales.