- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Equitable Building
- Date of Original:
- 1933/2022
- Subject:
- Counties--Georgia
Cities and towns--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Considered to be Atlanta's first skyscraper, the eight-story Equitable Building (1892, razed in 1971) was designed by John Wellborn Root in the Chicago School style. It was the first fireproof office building in the Southeast, and is the only building Root designed in Georgia.
Significance: Early skyscraper by the Chicago firm of Burnham and Root, pioneers in the development of skyscraper design. Was the first example of this new architectural form to be built in Georgia. Root, a native Georgian, was chief designer.
Survey number: HABS GA-2107 - Local Identifier:
- Call Number/Physical Location: HABS GA,61-ATLA,13-
Control Number: ga0118 - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/atlanta/m-4417/
- Original Collection:
- Historic American Buildings Survey
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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