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Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center

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Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center, Atlanta, GA (47421881242)
Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center, Atlanta, GA (47421881242)

The Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center is the ninth largest federal building in the United States and the largest in the southeast. The building houses 5,000 employees for dozens of federal agencies and combines four distinct structural elements in central downtown, equaling 1,870,000 square feet (174,000 m2).The Center is a U-shaped complex consisting of several distinct parts: a 24-story Modernist tower completed in 1997, a ten-story building, and the former main building of Rich's (department store), which opened in 1924. It also includes an eight-story bridge, six stories above Forsyth Street. The 1948 "Crystal Bridge", which connected two Rich's buildings, was demolished during the converting of the site to the Federal building complex, and was replaced by a more substantial connector between the high-rise and the 1924 Rich's building. The architect for the 1996-8 construction was Kohn, Peterson, Fox and Associates. The building is named for Sam Nunn, U.S. senator from Georgia.

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Crawford, Frazer & Co.
Crawford, Frazer & Co.

Crawford, Frazer & Co. was a slave-trading business located in Atlanta, Georgia, in the 1860s. The principals of Crawford, Frazer & Co. were Robert Crawford, Addison D. Frazer, and Thomas Lafayette Frazer. In company with a man named Robert Clarke, Crawford, Frazer & Co. may have been among "the largest of the city's slave brokers." The business opened in January 1863, and was dissolved in April 1864. All parties continued separately as negro traders, at another location in Atlanta (Crawford), and in Montgomery, Alabama (Frazers), until forced to cease operations due to the defeat of the Confederacy, concluding the American Civil War.On May 26, 1863, they advertised their business as commission merchants, auctioneers, and dealers in negroes in the Southern Confederacy newspaper, adding "Our Negro Yard and Lock Up, at No. 8, [is] both safe and comfortable. Dealers and other parties will find us prepared to feed and lodge well, and from experiences in the business since our boyhood, to handle the negro properly." The Crawford, Frazer & Co. auction room and, to the rear, slave pen, was located at 8 Whitehall Street, between Alabama and Hunter Streets, immediately adjacent to the Macon & Western Railroad line. The site is now the Five Points station of the MARTA transit system. The Crawford, Frazer & Co. stand was across from the offices of the Atlanta Intelligencer newspaper, which talked up their slave business, claiming in 1863 that Atlanta had overtaken Macon, Georgia, as a regional market for slaves and that it was fast approaching the scale of Richmond, Virginia.The Atlanta History Center holds a Crawford, Frazer & Co. receipt dated May 2, 1863, for the sale of "Harry about 34 & Hannah 30" to John P. Hulst. The sale price was $3,600 for the pair, likely paid in Confederate currency. Another such receipt is for Ben, a 21-year-old who sold for $3,200. In September 1863, Crawford, Frazer & Co. donated $1,000 to a fund for the care of the Confederate wounded from the Battle of Chickamauga.George N. Barnard photographed several business buildings along Whitehall, including the Crawford, Frazer & Co. storefront, in autumn 1864, after General William T. Sherman had captured the city, but before it burned. Stephen Berry in Lens of War argues that the famous photograph of a corporal in the U.S. Colored Troops reading in front of the building was most likely posed, as there were no USCT units with Sherman (he didn't much like "Negroes" and wrote a letter to Henry Halleck to that effect the week the photo was taken), and Berry argues that the figure visible just inside the door was likely told to move out of frame for the sake of the image. Berry notes that there are a great deal more questions than answers about the photo, including the identity of the reading man, and what was Barnard's intent (if he indeed posed the image), but also argues that even without these factual certainties, the image draws its power from juxtaposition of the reading man and the visibly derelict business, now deprived of its original purpose as a depot for buying and selling people: "Those days are over."33.754°N 84.392°W / 33.754; -84.392

M. Rich Building
M. Rich Building

The M. Rich Building, also known as the M. Rich and Brothers and Company Building and the W. T. Grant Building at 82 Peachtree Street SW (formerly 52-54-56 Whitehall), Atlanta, is a landmark building significant for both architectural and commercial reasons. It housed Rich's department store from the time it was completed in 1907 until it moved into its much larger premises at Broad and Alabama streets in 1924.In September 1882 Rich's moved to 54-56 Whitehall and in 1906, the adjacent M. Kutz & Co. building at 52 Whitehall was acquired. Both it and the Rich store at 54-56 Whitehall were torn down. Rich's closed its furniture annex and moved its dry goods to that building temporarily, while a new building was built on the site of 52-54-56 Whitehall designed by noted local architectural firm Bruce & Morgan. In April 1907 the new emporium opened for business.In 1924, Rich's moved to new, much larger Palazzo-style quarters at Broad and Alabama streets. From 1925 to 1974 the W. T. Grant discount department store operated here. Later owners and occupants of the building were: 1978–1986 Patrick Swindall , Atlanta Furniture Company 1986–1990 Trion-Winter-MLK Joint Venture 1990–? Patrick Swindall, The Great Five Points Flea Market 1998–present The Mall at 82 Peachtree occupies the bottom two floors of the buildingToday, most of the building operates as the M. Rich Center for Creative Arts, Media and Technology.In 2020, the building and surrounding area were added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Whitehall Street Retail Historic District.

Hotel Row
Hotel Row

Hotel Row is a both National Register and locally listed historic district consisting of one block of early 20th-century commercial buildings, three to four stories high, located on Mitchell Street west of Forsyth Street in the South Downtown district of Atlanta. The buildings were originally hotels with ground level retail shops built to serve the needs of passengers from Terminal Station, opened in 1905. The buildings are the most intact row of early 20th-century commercial structures in Atlanta's original business district. The decline of Hotel Row began in the 1920s due to the increased availability of automobile transportation and the construction of the Spring Street viaduct, which made getting to hotels in the northern part of the city easier. In the 1950s and 1960s, the increase in air travel led ultimately to the demolition of Terminal Station in 1971.The district is architecturally significant because the structures that make up the block retain most of their original historic architectural character. Several structures were developed by Samuel Inman and Walker Inman, two of Atlanta's most prominent businessmen, and the majority of the structures were designed by the leading architects of the period. They typify the early 20th-century commercial structures once common in Atlanta but now rare because of extensive redevelopment. With Atlanta's massive gentrification, plans were underway to convert some of the buildings into lofts, however these plans ultimately stalled as a result of the Late-2000s recession.