Tag: downtown Atlanta
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Photo Pick: Margaret Mitchell House by Chad Carlson
From Chad Carlson: Margaret Mitchell House, 1989. Margaret Mitchell and her husband, John Marsh, lived in the basement apartment. She wrote Gone With the Wind in that apartment. Daimler Benz Mercedes saved the house in 1996. Numerous attempts were made to burn it down by arsonists during the rehabilitation. It was used as a reception […]
Posted inMain Slider, Stories of Atlanta
For Underground Atlanta the beginning was almost the end
Looking at photographs of downtown Atlanta in the late 1800’s one cannot help but be impressed with the number of railroad tracks that populated the area we now call The Gulch. By some accounts, at the height of Atlanta’s railroad history there were over 350 trains a day that traveled through the city. Atlanta was […]
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Photo Pick: Flatiron Restoration by Ian Michael Rogers
Restoration of the historic 1897 Flatiron building continues in Downtown Atlanta. The Flatiron is Atlanta’s oldest standing skyscraper.
