Prominent Teardown/Poptop on North Highland -Part 2

It should be better than than "a place you just want to get through."

This is an important neighborhood intersection with a traffic light. The renovation of the house on the NE corner will make a difference. (Continued from "Part 1.)

This place has been a constant in my life for more than 30 years. I feel sentimental about it though my brain mostly tunes it out.

Here is the corner house scorecard. Each is a terminal vista.


Here is the SE house from the western approach facing east in the right turn lane.


A close look reveals some seriously good detailing. It's a busy place. I understand the excess bushiness.


If we're going straight or turning left, we see the poptop on the NE corner.


It's looking blue.


From the eastern approach on Morningside (facing west) we see the belle of the ball, Anshi S'fard. It's on the SW corner. This was converted from residential in the late 40's / ealy 50's. It "honors" the corner by being kitty-cornered, facing smack into the center of the intersection. That makes a difference.


What columns, what a porch, it's sturdy and solid; it faces out; it welcomes in.


The northern approach looking south on Highland also features Anshi S'fard and the side of the next house.


Pretty good even in the rain.


This is the southern approach on Highland looking north. The NW terminal vista is a line of 1-story jobs.


This is such a familiar sight, not a landmark view but interesting. With hips, gables, bricks, chimneys, stucco, and paneling there is genuine variety, far more than we'd find in similar houses built lately. It keeps me interested.


I think the corner house is multi-family. The hedge, always neatly trimmed, offers a bit of privacy.

This is very early in the story. I'll get back to you.

Let's have another look at Anshi S'fard before we go.

Great Atlanta Corners - Peachtree Street at 14th Street

It's relatively flat; it has a few of Atlanta best new buildings; two of the buildings acknowledge the corner. Colony Square, remarkably, welcomes folks inside. It's somewhat comfortable for humans. It's all so squeaky clean these days.

Here are a few lunch time walkers and First Church of Christ, Scientist (Edward E. Dougherty and Arthur Neal Robinson Sr.)



The Capanile faces the corner and has a little garden. It's not a pedestrian destination, but it feels good from street level.


1170 Peachtree Street building on the southwest corner. The entrance doesn't make me feel welcome.


1180 Peachtree Street building Here we get a breathtaking building if not a warm welcome.





1170 Peachtree Street building kind-of acknowledges the corner.






Colony Square is the people attacter for the corner. There are things to eat and do inside. It has a great atrium. Outside, it's the most human friendly.






A relic but these days it a breath of fresh air.

Road Trip 16: Riddleville Georgia's 1917 Corner Beauty

Riddleville is a crossroads between Bartow and Sandersville where Highway 242 crosses 231.


I think it's "J Y Bryan & Sons 1917." It has one of those dogeared corner entrances I like so much, lot's of fine brick detailing too. The diagonal "honors" and "activates the corner by facing in. You'll find this in our best feeling corners.



Apart from the visual appeal the cut corner is a gift to the street. It lets you see around the corner a bit, makes you feel a bit safer.

We've seen these before.


Midville City Hall.

And were still seeing these. And it's a fine thing.


Kevin Gillespie's restaurant, Gunshow in Glenwood Park has a massive corner column in keeping with its bulky building. It's a good look.

Dogs and metal chairs improve street scenes and make stop lights tolerable.

Architecture tourists enjoy red lights if the street looks like this.


It's the old Fleemans, now Belly, at the corner of North Highland and St. Charles.

I visit the wonderful Wigwam building and neighborhood in Atlanta's Old 4th Ward

Lucky day for me yesterday: Chad Mason, local musician and good guy, invited me to visit his Wigwam home. Built in 1940, it's an international style chunk of Miami Beach planted at the east end of the MLK historic district. Here is some more Wigwam info from another fan.

Here is the wonderful Indian Brave keeping watch over the Wigwam and neighborhood.


Architecture tourists will find more than a cool building. It's at a great but an unsung Atlanta 5-points corner: Old Wheat Street, Auburn Avenue, and Randolph Street. Where else can you find the Martin Luther Home, Ebenezer Baptist Church and this strawberry door?


A Greek revival townhouse


The fountain, the palm tree, the pastels:




The 4th ward tower:


A couple of churches:




We architecture tourists have a gold mine on Auburn Avenue which deserves many more blog entries. Get over there and enjoy!

There are more Wigwam neighborhood pictures in my Flickr slide show.

Glenn Memorial UMC steeple looking good in the winter light

Glenn Church gives architecture tourists a buzz when they are fortunate enough to drive by. To me it's the most pleasing Philip Shutze public building. Have you been inside? The "Little Chapel" in the education building is certainly one the the great interiors in Atlanta.


My children went to kindergarten here. I had the occasional pleasure of slowly circling the buildings in the car pool line. Inside and out, this place makes you feel good. It makes the 5-points intersection of North Decatur, Oxford, and Dowman one of the best corners in Atlanta.


Glenn church is at the entrance to the Emory University which is a campus of light colored buildings, many of classic design. It's another architecture tourist favorite worthy of more posts.

C&S Bank Headquarters Renovation by Philip Shutze

In it's day this was the financial center of Atlanta and the building looked it. Built in 1901 as the Empire Building. Hentz, Adler and Shutze renovated it in 1929 to the headquarters of Citizens and Southern National Bank.


I have a personal connection to all the Shutze buildings I'm blogging about. Perhaps this one most of all. Mrs. Architecture Tourist worked here as a teller while in grad school. Later she was kicked upstairs. We were young married folks. Both of us worked in a company headquarters, in beautiful historic buildings just three blocks from each other, when downtown Atlanta was at it's peak.


All the major banks were within a block but C&S seemed the city's favorite. It's president Mills B. Lane Jr. was an important Atlanta booster and remarkable personality.

This is the Broad and Walton corner, the most comfortable intersection in downtown Atlanta. How can such formal architecture produce human comfort? I don't know but that's why classic architecture will never go out of style.


It's elaborate on the outside. The banking floor itself is beyond words.


Today Bank of America runs the banking floor. The building is home to Georgia State's Robinson College of Business. Important things still happen here. But very few Atlantans have any occasion to visit here anymore.

Our lives have changed a bit since our newlywed days. But I still visit this block at least once a week to see a client whose office has this view.


Mrs. Tourist has fond memories as a teller there. I hope you'll have an opportunity to visit the banking floor yourself to see why.


No pro photography or pro architecture was committed in this post.

Thanks,
Terry
terry @ surf303.com