Flatiron Building (Atlanta)

English-American Building

Alternative names	English-American Building Flatiron Building Georgia Savings Bank Building Empire Life Insurance Building
General information
Type	Commercial offices
Location	84 Peachtree Street NW Atlanta, Georgia
Coordinates	33°45′22″N 84°23′19″W / 33.7562°N 84.3885°W / 33.7562; -84.3885Coordinates: 33°45′22″N 84°23′19″W / 33.7562°N 84.3885°W / 33.7562; -84.3885
Completed	1897
Height
Roof	c. 50 m (160 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	11
Design and construction
Architect	Bradford Gilbert


English-American Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Architectural style	Neo-Classical Neo-Renaissance
NRHP Reference #	76000626
Designated	March 26, 1976
References
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The English-American Building, commonly referenced as the Flatiron Building, is a building completed in 1897 located at 84 Peachtree Street NW in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, on the wedge-shaped block between Peachtree Street NE, Poplar Street NW, and Broad Street NW, also creating a one-block break in Williams Street. It was completed five years before New York's Flatiron Building, and shares a similar prominent flatiron shape as its counterpart. It was designed by Bradford Gilbert, a Chicago school contemporary of Daniel Burnham, the designer of the New York building. The building has 11 stories, and is the city's second and oldest standing skyscraper. The Flatiron building is protected by the city as a historic building in the Fairlie-Poplar district of downtown, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.^[5]

Immediately across Peachtree is the historic Rhodes-Haverty Building, on the north corner with Williams Street.

References

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Timeline of the tallest buildings in Atlanta

Equitable Building (1892) Flatiron Building (c.50 m) (1897) Empire Building (1901) Candler Building (1906) Rhodes-Haverty Building (75 m) (1929) Fulton National Bank Building (90 m) (1921) One Park Tower (134 m) (1961) State of Georgia Building (173 m) (1966) Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel (220 m) (1976) One Atlantic Center (250 m) (1987) Bank of America Plaza (312 m) (1992)

Atlanta landmarks

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Governmental

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wildlife

Performing
arts

Residential
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Historic (pre-WWII)	Candler (1906) Flatiron (1897) Healey (1914) Hurt (1926) J. Mack Robinson (Empire) (1901) The Metropolitan (1911) Rhodes-Haverty (1929) Southern Bell (1929) William-Oliver (1930) Winecoff Hotel (1913)

Downtown	25 Park Place (Trust Company of Georgia) 55 Marietta Street (Fulton National Bank) 191 Peachtree Tower Centennial Tower Equitable Five Points Plaza Fourth National Bank building Georgia Power Georgia-Pacific Tower Hyatt Regency Atlanta Marriott Marquis One Park Tower (IBM Tower) Peachtree Center Peachtree Summit State of Georgia Building SunTrust Plaza TWELVE Centennial Park Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel

Midtown	12th & Midtown (1010 Midtown 10 Sixty Five Midtown 1075 Peachtree) 1100 Peachtree 1180 Peachtree 1280 West AT&T Midtown Center Atlantic Center Plaza Atlantic Station (171 17th Street The Atlantic) Bank of America Plaza The Campanile Coca-Cola Colony Square CNN Center Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta/GLG Grand Georgian Terrace Hotel Mayfair Condominiums One Atlantic Center Promenade II Spire ViewPoint

Buckhead	2828 Peachtree 3344 Peachtree 3630 Peachtree Atlanta Plaza Buckhead Grand Mandarin Oriental Paramount at Buckhead Park Avenue Condominiums Park Place The Pinnacle Realm Resurgens Plaza Terminus Tower Place

Perimeter Center	Concourse Corporate Center V & VI (King & Queen towers) Park Towers I & II Three Ravinia Drive

Sports venues

Former

Planned

Atlanta Multi-Modal Passenger Terminal Atlanta Symphony Center Mercedes-Benz Stadium SunTrust Park

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