- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Southern Bell Telephone Building
- Date of Original:
- 2008
- Subject:
- Buildings--Georgia--Atlanta
Tall buildings--Georgia--Atlanta
Skyscrapers--Georgia--Atlanta
Towers--Georgia--Atlanta
Art deco (Architecture)--Georgia--Atlanta
Architecture--Georgia--Atlanta
Atlanta (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Marye, P. Thornton (Philip Thornton), 1872-1935 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- color photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The original Southern Bell Telephone Building in Atlanta, pictured in 2008, was designed by architect P. Thornton Marye in the late 1920s. The art deco-style building was advertised as the city's "first modernistic skyscraper." The building's original six stories were extended to fourteen in the 1940s and topped with a tower in the 1960s.
Photograph of the original Southern Bell Telephone Building in Atlanta, Georgia. This structure was designed by architect P. Thornton Marye in the late 1920s. The art deco building was advertised as the city's "first modernistic skyscraper." The building's original six stories were extended to fourteen in the 1940s and topped with a tower in the 1960s. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/people/p-thornton-marye-1872-1935/m-10867/
- Rights Holder:
- Photograph by Mary Ann Sullivan
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/p-thornton-marye-1872-1935
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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