The M. Rich Building
Imagine a brick maze of interlocked buildings from before 1907, smack in the middle of downtown Atlanta. In short, that’s…
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Southern Bell Telephone Company Building
From afar it appears to be a giant blank ice cube with a brown toothpick-like tower oddly sticking out of…
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APC Alert: The Phoenix Flies Celebration 2014
Each year the Atlanta Preservation Center coordinates a series of unique events dedicated to Atlanta history and historic preservation collectively…
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The Murder of John Garris
“We were down at the station at a little before midnight,” said William Fisher, a chorus member of the New…
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Endangered: Memorial Corridor
Since the early history of the Gate City, Memorial Drive has been a beating artery of Atlanta, pulsating traffic and…
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The Martin Luther King, Jr. Birth Home
Pictured is the birth home of Atlanta’s greatest citizen, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was born in an upstairs…
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Hammonds House Museum
Hammonds House Museum touches upon so many categories of Atlanta history, it provides the perfect first story of 2014. It…
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Woody Willow
He was there when Atlanta’s first television station turned on the transmitter in September of 1948, reaching an estimated 500…
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The Wren’s Nest
Was Joel Chandler Harris a progressive that cleverly subverted white power and racism or an anthropological thief that profited from…
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The Manuscript, Archives & Rare Book Library
MARBL stands for the Manuscript, Archives & Rare Book Library located primarily on the 10th floor of the Robert W….