Hotel Row facts for kids
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Hotel Row Historic District
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Mitchell St., early 20th
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 Location in Downtown Atlanta
Location in Georgia (U.S. state)
Location in the United States
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| Location | 205--235 Mitchell St., Atlanta, Georgia |
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| Area | 2 acres (0.81 ha) |
| Built | 1892–1908 |
| Architect | Bruce & Morgan Willis F. Denny George W. Laine |
| Architectural style | Early commercial |
| NRHP reference No. | 89000802 |
| Added to NRHP | July 20, 1989 |
Hotel Row is a special area in Atlanta, Georgia. It's listed on both the National Register of Historic Places and local lists. This means its buildings are important to history. It's a block of old commercial buildings, about three or four stories tall. You can find it on Mitchell Street, west of Forsyth Street, in the South Downtown part of Atlanta.
These buildings were first built as hotels. They also had shops on the ground floor. They were made to serve people traveling by train. These travelers arrived at Terminal Station, which opened in 1905. The buildings on Hotel Row are some of the best-preserved old commercial buildings in Atlanta's original business area.
Why Hotel Row Changed
Hotel Row started to decline in the 1920s. More people began using cars to travel. Also, the Spring Street viaduct was built. This made it easier to reach newer hotels in the northern part of the city. By the 1950s and 1960s, air travel became very popular. This led to the old Terminal Station being torn down in 1971.
Important Buildings and Architects
Hotel Row is important for its architecture. The buildings still look much like they did when they were first built. Some buildings were developed by Samuel Inman and Walker Inman. They were very important businessmen in Atlanta. Most of the buildings were designed by leading architects of that time. These buildings show what early 20th-century commercial structures looked like in Atlanta. Many similar buildings have been torn down, making Hotel Row quite rare.
There were plans to turn some of these old buildings into modern apartments, called lofts. However, these plans stopped because of a big economic downturn around 2008, known as the Late-2000s recession.
Buildings of Hotel Row
Here are some of the buildings you can find in Hotel Row:
| Building | Year built | Address Mitchell St. (current) |
Address Mitchell St. (pre-1926) |
Architects | Notes |
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| Concordia Hall | 1892 | 201-209 | 35-43 | Bruce & Morgan | Concordia Assn. would become the Standard Club |
| Gordon Hotel (form. Child's Hotel, Princeton Hotel) |
211-215 | 45-49 | Willis F. Denny | #215 Gordon Lofts | |
| Commercial building | 1908 | 217-221 | 51-53 | ||
| Scoville Hotel (form. Marion Hotel) |
1908 | 223-225 | 55-57 | George W. Laine | |
| The Factory Building | 1908 | 227-231 | 59-63 | George W. Laine | #227, Factory Lofts; #231 houses Lunacy Black Market restaurant |
| Sylvan Hotel (orig. known as "Terminal Hotel Annex"; also housed the Williams Hotel c. 1910) |
1908 (permit issued) | 233-235 | 65-67 | #233 houses Sylvan Factory Partners |
