United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018Craig, Robert2006-09-30Encyclopedia article about Late Victorian architecture in Georgia. Across Georgia, the period from 1895 to 1920 was an era of expansion and growth. In Atlanta, for instance, the "New South" center was transforming itself from a Victorian town that aspired to become the "Gate City" and leading metropolis of the region to a burgeoning metropolitan area whose downtown was connected by streetcar and then automobile to emerging suburbs and neighborhood commercial districts well beyond the limits of the nineteenth-century city. The growth was reflected both vertically, with new skyscrapers, and horizontally, with new suburbs. In Savannah, the tower of William Aiken's Renaissance revival post office (1898) and tall building blocks, such as Hyman Witcover's Masonic Building and Mowbray and Uffinger's Savannah Bank and Trust Company (both 1912), began to alter the pedestrian scale of the historic district.engForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia EncyclopediaArchitecture--Georgia--19th centuryBuildings--GeorgiaArchitectural design--GeorgiaArchitecture--Georgia--20th centuryLate Victorian Architecture: OverviewText