- Collection:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation Presentation Slide Collection, 1968-2000
- Title:
- W. W. Orr Building
- Creator:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Contributor to Resource:
- Smith, Francis Palmer, 1886-1971
- Date of Original:
- 1998
- Subject:
- Architecture
Historic sites--Georgia--Fulton County
Historic buildings--Georgia--Fulton County
Commercial buildings--Georgia--Fulton County
Art deco (Architecture)
Cultural property--Protection
Historic preservation--Georgia
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
Pringle and Smith, Architects - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- color slides
medical buildings
historic preservation
historic buildings - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- The Art Deco style building was designed by architect Francis Palmer Smith of the firm of Pringle and Smith.[1] While the firm had designed many Beaux-Arts buildings in Atlanta, the Orr Building was one of the first two buildings designed by Pringle and Smith in the Art Deco style (alongside the William–Oliver Building, finished the same year). The building's namesake, W. W. (Wayman W.) Orr, was the president of the Atlanta Retail Merchants' Association for several years in the 1910s.[1] It is currently part of the Emory University Hospital Midtown complex. The building is decorated with serpents and staffs (caduceus) alluding to its past and current function as a medical building. Variant names include: W. W. Orr Building, W. W. Orr Doctors Building. See https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/francis-palmer-smith-1886-1971/m-647/
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_412
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_412#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_412/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Rights:
-
