- Collection:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation Presentation Slide Collection, 1968-2000
- Title:
- Cox Carlton (Days Inn)
- Creator:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Contributor to Resource:
- Smith, Francis Palmer, 1886-1971
Pringle, Robert Smith, 1883-1937
Foundation Company
Cox, Russell Carlton
Cox, Charles H. - Date of Original:
- 1998
- Subject:
- Architecture
Historic sites--Georgia--Fulton County
Historic buildings--Georgia--Fulton County
Commercial buildings--Georgia--Fulton County
Architecture, Georgian
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
Historic hotels--Conservation and restoration
Taverns (Inns)
Cultural property--Protection
Historic preservation--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- color slides
georgian revival
historic buildings
hotels (built public accommodations)
historic preservation - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- From the National Register of Historic Places nomination form prepared in 1976 by H. Lee Dunagan, consultant, Atlanta Urban Design Commission, and Elizabeth A. Lyon, consultant, Historic Preservation Section, Department of Natural Resources: A three-part commercial building, the Carlton was designed in the Georgian Revival style, popular in the 1920s "The Carlton" is inscribed in a terra cotta frieze separating the lower two floors from the brick façade above, with ornamentation on the exterior of the top and bottom two floors. It is a 12-story, brick veneer building, built of steel-reinforced concrete, with details in limestone and terra-cotta. A first design in 1923 by architects Pringle and Smith, It was built during 1924–1925 by the Foundation Company of New York. Originally built to serve as a "bachelor hotel" (an apartment hotel/boarding establishment for men) and was known as the "Carlton Bachelor Apartments." Its top three floors were designed specifically for the "Bell House Boys," a social fraternity for unmarried men only. These floors included a dining room for 75, a lounge, a card room, a kitchen and a "radio room." The fraternity also enjoyed a roof garden. These floors were converted to hotel rooms eventually after the Bell House fraternity moved away in 1929.In 1929, the hotel was taken over by Colonel Charles H. Cox, one of the hotel's original investors, who had been a colonel of the Georgia National Guard 122nd Infantry. He changed the name to the Cox-Carlton Hotel and adapted the building to be solely a hotel, removing the bachelor apartments. From 1930-1981, the hotel was known as the Cox-Carlton, despite being sold to various other owners. In the 1970s both the Southern Railway System and the Family Lines System leased the hotel to supply housing for railroad employees and their families. For more than a decade, it was closed to the general public, and did not allow alcohol on the premises. This similar situation happened in other cities with large railroad communities. Confusingly, the hotel's next owner was Russell Carlton Cox (no relation to Colonel Cox or to the Carlton previously), the owner of the Hotel York in San Francisco, who purchased the building in 1981. He renovated and reopened as the Hotel York of Atlanta in October 1981. It became a franchise of Days Inn, and was operated as Days Inn-Peachtree, from 1985 to approximately 1999. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.In October 2004, the building reopened after an extensive renovation as the Hotel Indigo Atlanta Midtown. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 1, 2006, and later inducted into Historic Hotels of America, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in 2021. The hotel is a contributing building in the Fox Theatre Historic District. "The Carlton" in Atlanta has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2006, and, in 2022, became a member of Historic Hotels of America. Variant names include: Cox Carlton (Days Inn), Cox-Carlton Hotel, The Carlton, The Carlton Apartments, Carlton Bachelor Apartments, Hotel Indigo Atlanta Midtown, Cox Carlton, Days Inn Hotel-Peachtree. See ref # 06000960 (Cox-Carlton Hotel) https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/national-register-listed-20240710.xlsx
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_416
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_416#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_416/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:
-
