{"nrhp_refnum":"04001182","name":"Palmer House and Phelan House Apartments","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"952 Peachtree St. and 81 and 93 Peachtree Place","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.78250217900006,"lon":-84.38450968299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-10-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two adjacent brick apartment buildings at 952 Peachtree Street and 81 and 93 Peachtree Place in Atlanta's Midtown neighborhood: the Palmer House (built 1907-1908) and the Phelan House (completed 1915).","why_significant":"The nomination argues the buildings are excellent examples of early 20th-century apartments built for the city's middle and upper classes. The Palmer House was among the first luxury apartment buildings in Atlanta, and the Phelan House is described as a precursor to the garden apartment. Both were designed by prominent Atlanta architects, including Gottfried L. Norrman, J. Neel Reid and Philip Trammell Shutze.","narrative":"Two brick apartment buildings stand side by side on Peachtree Street and Peachtree Place in Atlanta's Midtown, now surrounded by commercial buildings and office towers. The Palmer House, built in 1907-1908 to designs by Gottfried L. Norrman, is a five-story, U-shaped building combining Queen Anne massing with Tudor details such as Flemish bond brick and segmented arches. It was among the city's first luxury rental apartments and used fireproof construction. The Phelan House, completed in 1915, is a three-story Tudor-style building around a courtyard, designed by J. Neel Reid and Philip Trammell Shutze, with ornate entrance surrounds featuring broken pediments. Its roomy flats anticipated the garden apartments popular in Atlanta in the 1920s and 1930s. Together they show how Peachtree Street shifted from large private residences to apartment living as streetcars and new building technologies opened the area to middle- and upper-class renters. Both still serve as housing and keep many original interior features.","period_of_significance":"1908-1915","architect_builder":"Norrman, Gottfried L. (architect); Reid, J. Neel (architect); Shutze, Philip Trammel (architect); Donaldson and Pearson (contractor)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne; Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Tudor Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Both buildings remain in use as multiple dwellings and are described as largely unchanged since their completion.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.174798-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/04001182.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001182/88c3190a48-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001182/88c3190a48-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Neonorange","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palmer_House_and_Phelan_House_Apartments_(view_of_81_Peachtree_Place_frontage)_Atlanta_Georgia.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Neonorange</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:Palmer_House_and_Phelan_House_Apartments_(view_of_81_Peachtree_Place_frontage)_Atlanta_Georgia.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208286","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134314732"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/palmer-house-and-phelan-house-apartments-04001182/"}