Rhodes–Haverty Building

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{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Rhodes–Haverty Building

| image = Atlanta Rhodes-Haverty Building 2012 09 15 02 6131.JPG

| caption = Rhodes–Haverty Building in 2012

| location = 134 Peachtree Street NW
Atlanta, Georgia

| locmapin = USA Atlanta Downtown#Atlanta, Georgia#Georgia (U.S. state)#USA

| built = 1929

| architect = Pringle & Smith; Southern Ferro Concrete Co.

| architecture = Romanesque, Skyscraper

| added = January 19, 1979

| refnum = 79000725

| designated_other1_name = Atlanta Landmark Building

| designated_other1_date = October 23, 1989

| designated_other1_abbr = ALB

| designated_other1_link = List of historic buildings and districts designated by the City of Atlanta

| designated_other1_color = #aaccff

}}

The historic 21-story Rhodes–Haverty Building was, at the time of its construction in 1929, the tallest building in Atlanta, Georgia. Designed by Atlanta architects Pringle and Smith, the building was built by furniture magnates A. G. Rhodes of Rhodes Furniture and J. J. Haverty of Havertys. It remained the tallest building in Atlanta until 1954.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NEYiQhuyJR8C&pg=PA33|title=AIA Guide to the Architecture of Atlanta|last=Gournay|first=Isbaelle|publisher=University of Georgia Press|year=1993|isbn=978-0-8203-1450-1|editor-last=Sams|editor-first=Gerald W.|pages=33|language=en|via=Google Books}}

The National Register of Historic Places listed the building in 1979.{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/ga/Fulton/state4.html|title=National Register Information System|date=April 15, 2008|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=October 14, 2010}} The building was converted from office use in 1995-1996{{Cite web|url=https://media.bizj.us/view/img/4860461/report-gwcc-draft-from-pkf-hr-at-82013.pdf|title=Proposed Hotel at the GWCC Atlanta, Georgia|last=PKF International|author-link=PKF International|date=August 19, 2013|access-date=December 14, 2019}} to become a Marriott Residence Inn, the Residence Inn Atlanta Downtown.

Origin of name

The building was constructed for the Rhodes Haverty Investment Company, a partnership of furniture magnates Amos G. Rhodes of Rhodes Furniture and J. J. Haverty of Haverty's. It was not named for the Rhodes–Haverty Furniture Company (1889-1908), which had already been dissolved.{{Cite web|url=http://atlantaga.gov/government/urbandesign_rhodeshav.aspx|title=Rhodes-Haverty Building|website=AtlantaGA.gov|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120094309/http://atlantaga.gov/government/urbandesign_rhodeshav.aspx|archive-date=November 20, 2010|access-date=December 14, 2019}}

Immediately across Peachtree Street is the English-American Building, commonly referred to as the Flatiron Building.

File:Equitablebuildingatlanta.jpg|Rhodes–Haverty Building at lower left (dwarfed by the Equitable Building), looking from north to south.

See also

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