- Collection:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation Presentation Slide Collection, 1968-2000
- Title:
- Crum and Forster Building
- Creator:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Contributor to Resource:
- Helmle, Frank J.
Corbett, Harvey Wiley, 1873-1954
Crook, Lewis Edmund, 1898-1967
Harrison, Wallace K. (Wallace Kirkman), 1895-1981
Ivey, Ed, 1887-1956
Smith, Francis Palmer, 1886-1971 - Date of Original:
- 1960/2000
- Subject:
- Architecture
Historic sites--Georgia--Fulton County
Historic buildings--Georgia--Fulton County
Commercial buildings--Georgia--Fulton County
Renaissance revival (Architecture)
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
Cultural property--Protection
Historic preservation--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- color slides
historic buildings
beaux-arts (style)
renaissance revival
historic preservation - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- [Detail, Atlanta's Crum &Forster building, three large stone arches surrounded with carved stone motifs]. Crum &Forster, a New York-based insurance firm formed in 1896 and incorporated in 1907, sought to expand and build a new Southern headquarters in Atlanta. They looked to a combination of architects nationwide, and ultimately hired the Atlanta firm Ivey &Crook to work with the New York firm Helmle, Corbett &Harrison. Their collaboration, the Crum &Forster Building (1926), is a Renaissance revival palazzo reminiscent of the Beaux-Arts projects and student exercises of Georgia Tech's architecture program led by Francis Smith, of which Ivey and Crook were both students. In 2007, Georgia Tech purchased the Crum &Forster building, with plans to demolish and build a parking lot. Local preservationists fought and managed to save its five-bayed façade centered on an entry loggia (an exterior covered space) of three sweeping arches. The rear two-thirds of the building, however, were demolished to make room for Georgia Tech's Center for High Performance Computing in 2013. Variant names include: Crum and Forster Building
Crum &Forster Building. See https://historyatlanta.com/crum-forster-building/ , https://www.smithdalia.com/crum-forster-building/ , https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ggpd_i-ga-bn200-ph5-bp1-bp7-b2009-saug-p-b22-h28-belec-p-btext , and https://nique.net/news/2011/02/25/fate-of-crum-forster-to-be-determined/ - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_458
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_458#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_458/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:
-
