Crum & Forster Building
| Crum & Forster Building | |
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| File:Crum & Forster.jpg Crum & Forster Building (2019) | |
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| Location | 771 Spring Street NW Atlanta, Georgia 30308 |
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| Opened | 1927 |
The Crum & Forster Building is a 1928 three-story building with a Renaissance façade with columns and arches located at 771 Spring Street at Tech Square in Midtown Atlanta.
History
[edit | edit source]The building was designed in 1926 by a team of New York and Atlanta architects, Ed Ivey and Lewis Crook, who were both Georgia Tech graduates and helped establish the Architecture program at Georgia Tech in 1908,[1] and opened in 1928 as a regional office for a national insurance firm.[2]
In 2007, the Georgia Tech Foundation purchased the building, and sought permits to demolish the building as part of a plan to expand Technology Square.[1] Preservationists fought the demolition and in August 2009, the Atlanta City Council and Mayor Shirley Franklin granted the building protective status as a historic landmark.[3] The Georgia Tech Foundation appealed this decision. They instead purchased an adjoining property where a SunTrust Banks branch was previously located. In September 2013, the Georgia Tech Foundation demolished two-thirds of the Crum & Forster Building, leaving only part of its facade, to clear space for a High Performance Computing Center mid-rise.[4]
As of late 2017, there are plans to build an 8,000-square-foot (740 m2) restaurant in the remaining portion of the building, adjacent to a new 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m2) food hall at the adjacent new CODA mixed-use development.[5]
References
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- ^ Fight to save historic Crum & Forster continues; Georgia Tech has big plans for block, Saporta Report, November 14, 2011
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
