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Flatiron Building — Bradford Gilbert, Atlanta

The narrow triangular tip of Atlanta's Flatiron Building, a pale stone office building, at a street corner with taller towers behind
Artwork FileAtlanta, USA

Flatiron Building

SeenMar 2019

Bradford L. Gilbert · 1897 · 84 Peachtree Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia

Photo: Ganeshk / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0), as published in World Art Utopia.

Completed in 1897 on a wedge-shaped downtown block between Peachtree, Broad and Poplar Streets, Bradford Gilbert’s 11-story Flatiron Building, originally the English-American Building, was finished five years before New York’s Flatiron. The National Park Service nomination calls it Atlanta’s oldest standing skyscraper, and the city designated it a landmark building in 1991. Source Source Source Checked

Seen Mar 2019: a Wikimedia Commons photo by Warren LeMay dated 23 March 2019 shows the building. Source Checked

More photos

Black-and-white 1921 photograph of Atlanta's Flatiron Building at Broad and Peachtree Streets
1921 As published in Collier’s New EncyclopediaPhoto: Ewing Galloway / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

💡 4 things to know

  1. Five years older than New York’s FlatironCompleted in 1897, Atlanta’s wedge-shaped Flatiron Building was finished five years before New York’s. Source Reported
  2. Atlanta’s oldest standing skyscraperIts National Register nomination calls the 11-story building, originally the English-American Building, Atlanta’s oldest standing skyscraper. Source Checked
  3. Tiers of bay windowsVertical tiers of bay windows project from the Peachtree and Broad Street facades of the narrow triangular building. Source Checked
  4. Designated an Atlanta Landmark in 1991On December 23, 1991, the City of Atlanta designated the building’s exterior a Landmark Building. Source Checked

📍 Where it is

84 Peachtree Street NW, on the wedge between Peachtree, Broad and Poplar Streets, downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Source Reported

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🗓️ Sightings

  1. 1897

    Completed as the 11-story English-American Building · National Park Service

  2. 1921

    Photo: published in Collier’s New Encyclopedia

  3. 199123 Dec

    Designated a City of Atlanta Landmark Building

  4. 201215 Sep

    Photographed by Ganeshk for Wiki Loves Monuments 2012

  5. 201923 Mar

    Photo: the Flatiron Building in March 2019

Green stamps mark dated photographs; amber stamps mark records, events and reports; red stamps mark loss. Publication dates are not camera dates.

✅ The facts

Architect
Bradford L. Gilbert Source Checked
Built
1897 (as the English-American Building) Source Checked
Height
11 stories Source Checked
Distinction
Called Atlanta’s oldest standing skyscraper in its 1975 National Register nomination Source Reported
City landmark
Designated 1991 by the City of Atlanta Source Checked
Address
84 Peachtree Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia Source Reported

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