- Collection:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation Presentation Slide Collection, 1968-2000
- Title:
- Reid House
- Creator:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Contributor to Resource:
- Hentz, Adler, and Shutze (Atlanta, Ga.)
Shutze, Philip Trammell
Reid, Neel, 1885-1926
Lowry, Eugene I. - Date of Original:
- 1960/2000
- Subject:
- Architecture
Historic sites--Georgia--Fulton County
Historic buildings--Georgia--Fulton County
Architecture, Domestic--Georgia--Fulton County
Cultural property--Protection
Historic preservation--Georgia
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- color slides
historic preservation
historic buildings - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- From the form prepared in 1978 by Hal Wyche Greer, III, College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Martha F. Norwood, Consultant, Historic Preservation Section, and certified by Elizabeth A. Lyon, State Historic Preservation Officer: The Garrison Apartments is a luxury apartment building built in 1924 on a one-acre site. In 1975, it was converted into luxury condominiums. It stands on the comer site with a garage building that has a tennis court on top. It is a nine-story building that is approximately 143 feet by 49 feet. The front facade facing Peachtree Street is divided into five bays by stone quoins. The middle bay is the widest, having six windows that are three lights by four lights double-hung. The other four bays have four windows of this same type. The middle bay is capped by a pediment which has at its apex and ends stone balls that rest on pedestals. In the face of the pediment is a large disc containing the spiked crowned head of Liberty facing to the left. Immediately below the pediment is a rectangular block decorated with a motif of bulls' skulls (six) and swag. The rectangle is flanked by stone scrolls. The Reid House, originally the Garrison Apartments, is significant for its classical architectural style designed by the noted classical architect Philip Trammell Shutze. Its history provides insight into the development of Atlanta in the 1920s. The Garrison Apartments was the third luxury apartment building constructed in the city of Atlanta and was, at the time of its construction in 1924-25, the one most removed from the core of the city. Its presence then and now shows the movement of the prestigious residents of the city from their domain in the Five Points area to this northwest point some three miles distant as downtown residential property gave way to commercial interest. This building is an excellent example of the work of the architectural firm of Hentz, Reid and Adler, and in particular, of their associate and later partner, Philip T. Shutze. Shutze was born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1890. He graduated in 1912 from the Georgia Institute of Technology and in 1914 from Columbia School of Architecture. Other works of Shutze in Atlanta include the renovation of the Citizens and Southern Bank Building and design of the Villa Apartments, the Swan House, Academy of Medicine, Glenn Memorial Chapel, Emory Hospital annex, and numerous fine residences. H. H. Reed, in an article on Shutze, calls him America's greatest living classical architect. The building from its beginning housed the wealthier citizens of Atlanta and retained that distinction even as older luxury apartments declined. In 1974, the Garrison Apartments were renovated at a cost of $2 million. The work was directed by architect Eugene I. Lowry and was done in a sensitive manner that allowed for modernization but retained original yellow pine floors, mouldings, fireplaces and cherry paneling of the lobby on the interior. The exterior is unchanged. Today, the building retains its original purpose for which it was designed in 1924--a luxury apartment dwelling. Variant names include: Reid House, Garrison Apartments. See ref# 79000721 (Garrison Apartments) https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/national-register-listed-20240710.xlsx
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_452
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_452#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_452/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:
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