A 120-year-old Victorian mansion that is a long-endangered historic gem of Downtown Atlanta may have a new owner who is pledging to restore it for future glory. The Rufus M. Rose House at 537 Peachtree St. is under contract to be bought for $1.65 million by UC Asset LP (also known as UCASU), a Chamblee-based […]
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Emory graduate student housing plan raises traffic, historic preservation concerns
An Emory University proposal for a three-building graduate student housing complex on its Druid Hills campus is raising concerns from traffic to historic preservation — including the impact on one of the oldest houses in DeKalb County, which the university may demolish or move down the street. Sketched out as housing 1,000 students and a […]
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Historic gas station’s pending demolition fuels concerns about weak preservation tactics
Nearly 70 years after it began serving drivers headed to Stone Mountain, a historic, long-shuttered gas station in Cabbagetown is facing city-ordered demolition. That’s welcome news for residents unhappy with an eyesore condition that includes a tree growing out of the missing roof. But for preservationists, the station’s fate is fueling concerns about why the […]
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Atlanta’s Design Awards honor preservation efforts as city diversifies its idea of ‘historic’
Historic preservation and reuse projects took home a majority of the City of Atlanta’s 43rd annual Design Awards in a May 18 virtual ceremony. Meanwhile, city planners teased their intention to diversify their definition of historic sites, as they seek a grant to study LGBTQ history and may landmark more icons of Atlanta’s Black culture […]
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Former Masonic lodge and union hall in Atlanta’s Capitol View could gain historic landmark status
A former Masonic lodge in the Capitol View neighborhood that once housed a Black-founded union has been recommended for historic landmark designation as a preservation-minded owner plans a renovation. The nearly century-old Masonic building stands at 1331 Metropolitan Parkway at the intersection with Dill Avenue, across the street from the Metropolitan Branch Library. It is […]
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Slice of Americana, an engineering marvel, to be replicated across Chattahoochee River
An engineering marvel of a bygone era will be retained in Rogers Bridge as its replacement is built across the Chattahoochee River to connect parks in Fulton and Gwinnett counties.
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Atlanta Eagle could become Atlanta’s fourth landmark to the LGBTQ community
The Atlanta Eagle could become Atlanta’s fourth monument to the LGBTQ community, following steps Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced Thursday to preserve the building that housed the now-shuttered nightclub.
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Westside’s historic Roosevelt Hall bound for adaptive reuse revival
An aging, vacant building in the Atlanta University Center is headed for a nearly $10 million restoration that’s slated to provide amenities for a mixed-income community being developed nearby.
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Housing authority aims to convert historic Westside building into affordable residences
Atlanta Housing officials took steps on Wednesday that are expected to pave the way for a historic Westside building to be reimagined as an affordable housing complex for people experiencing homelessness, military veterans, and young people aging out of foster care.
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Renovation of historic Fountain Hall gets major boost with grant for a new roof
Morris Brown’s Fountain Hall will get a new roof, thanks to a $500,000 grant from the National Park Service African American Civil Rights Grant.
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Why save it? Just pave it – Conservation becoming tool of choice in Morgan County
By Guest Columnist CHRISTINE MCCAULEY WATTS, executive director of Madison-Morgan Conservancy
Would you like fries with that? Or fruit salad? We don’t always choose the healthier option, do we? It is our right. But at least the option exists these days: a sign that healthy choices are trending. Could it be that protecting a sense of place is beginning to trend, too?
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Deal will save historic Westside Atlanta building linked to Kings, Jackson
A historic building on Atlanta’s Westside will be preserved thanks to a deal between the King Center and Westside Future Fund.
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Preserving lives and buildings along MLK corridor can revive ‘Main Street’
It’s a story of rebirth – the human kind and the physical kind.
A benefit concert for the Westside Singing Ambassadors on Nov. 29 at 960 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard provided a symbolic spark of what once was and what could be again.
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Fountain Hall and elementary school designed by John Portman make 2020 ‘Places in Peril’ list
The historic Fountain Hall on the Atlanta University Center campus made the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation’s 2020 “Places in Peril” list.
It was one of 10 sites that the Georgia Trust is highlighting as places in Georgia most worthy in being preserved and those that are most threatened to being demolished.
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We really did this for a Margaritaville?
On Thursday, Aug. 8, the demolition of 152 Nassau Street has ceased thanks to Fulton County Superior Court Judge Ellen LaGura who ordered developers to stop demolition until an Aug. 29 hearing.
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Don’t turn Grady High’s green front lawn into a parking lot
Forget about NIMBY. My protest is NIMFY (Not In My Front Yard).
Grady High School is planning to turn its beautiful front lawn into a parking lot.
The plans are part of the Atlanta Public School’s efforts to improve its schools and accommodate increased student demand.
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Preservationists urge Atlanta to stop demolition of two downtown buildings
Historic preservationists are urging the city to issue a “stop-work order” of the proposed Wyndham/Margaritaville Atlanta project in the Fairlie-Poplar district in downtown Atlanta.
The proposed development would result in the demolition of two historic buildings – 141 Walton Street. and 152 Nassau Street.
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National Trust helps improve Herndon Home in Vine City
A targeted initiative by the National Trust for Historic Preservation to preserve African American history is taking hold in Atlanta. The historic Alonzo Herndon Home Museum in Vine City is the most recent example.
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Preserving both Maynard Jackson’s and MLK’s legacy on Sunset Ave.
My life was transformed at 234 Sunset Ave. – the home of Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King and their four children.As I have written before, my closest friend in 1966 to 1968 was the oldest of the King children – the late Yolanda King. I had the incredible good fortune to spend the night in the home, to get to know Martin Luther King Jr., and the entire family
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Vine City residents are upset over plans to tear down Maynard Jackson’s residence on Sunset Ave.
Plans to tear down the family home of Atlanta’s first black mayor – Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr. – is causing an uproar in the historic Vine City community.The three-story apartment building at 220 Sunset Ave. is adjacent to the home at 234 Sunset Ave. where Martin Luther King Jr. lived until he was assassinated.
