{"nrhp_refnum":"01000644","name":"Building at 161 Spring St.","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"161 Spring St., NW","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.76052169500008,"lon":-84.38960352999999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-06-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An eight-story Neoclassical Revival office building at 161 Spring Street N.W. in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia. The first three floors were built in 1928 for the Massell Realty Company and floors four through eight were added in 1948.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an excellent example of Neoclassical Revival architecture in Atlanta, with an ornate exterior that is virtually unaltered and one of the few dozen early-to-mid 20th-century tall office buildings surviving downtown. It is also significant in religion as the organizational center for domestic evangelical work of the Southern Baptist Convention's Home Mission Board after World War II.","narrative":"Located at the corner of Spring and Williams streets in downtown Atlanta, this eight-story building was built in two phases. Real-estate developer Ben Massell hired the Raymond C. Snow Company to design a speculative office building in 1928, but only three of the planned eight stories were completed. In 1946 the Southern Baptist Home Mission Board bought the property and commissioned Barili and Humphreys to add the remaining five floors, finished in 1948. The board used the lower floors and leased the upper ones until 1967. The Neoclassical Revival exterior features terra-cotta ornament on the lower and top floors and Flemish bond brick in between, and it remains virtually unaltered. The building is valued as a surviving early-to-mid 20th-century office tower and as the headquarters of the board's home evangelism work after World War II. Rehabilitated in 1997, it now operates as a hotel, with a larger lobby and a glazed light court.","period_of_significance":"1928-1950","architect_builder":"Raymond C. Snow Company (architect); Barili & Humphreys (architect)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Classical Revival (Neoclassical Revival)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Rehabilitated in 1997 as a hotel; the upper floors hold guest rooms and retain little historic fabric apart from the elevator and stairwell locations, while the exterior facades remain largely intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.32263-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/01000644.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000644/2e27efc0e7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000644/2e27efc0e7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Geoff Bartlett","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:161_Spring_Street.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Geoff Bartlett</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:161_Spring_Street.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100002207","name":"Peachtree Center Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/peachtree-center-historic-district-100002207/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208108","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134305725"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/building-at-161-spring-st-01000644/"}