{"nrhp_refnum":"09000185","name":"Winecoff Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"179 Peachtree St., N.W.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.76102574200007,"lon":-84.38786114999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-03-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national","state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 15-story luxury hotel at 176 Peachtree Street, N.W., in downtown Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, designed by architect William L. Stoddart and completed in 1913.","why_significant":"The hotel was the site of the 1946 Winecoff fire, which killed 119 people and was the deadliest hotel fire in American history. The disaster, along with other 1946 hotel fires, led to new fire-safety codes across the United States, Georgia and Atlanta. It is also significant locally as a Neoclassical Revival design and as one of the few early 20th-century hotels surviving downtown.","narrative":"Rising fifteen stories above Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, the Winecoff Hotel opened in 1913 as a luxury hotel designed by New York architect William L. Stoddart. Its steel frame, reinforced-concrete floors and brick and terra-cotta exterior reflect Neoclassical Revival styling, with a rusticated base, dark red brick midsection and white terra-cotta details near the top. The building was promoted as fireproof, yet it had only one open stair. On December 7, 1946, a fire spread up that stair and killed 119 people, making it the deadliest hotel fire in American history. The disaster, together with other hotel fires that year, prompted stricter fire codes requiring enclosed stairs, multiple exits and sprinklers, adopted in Atlanta, Georgia and nationwide. The hotel reopened in 1951, later served as housing for seniors, stood largely vacant from 1981 to 2006, and was then rehabilitated as a hotel. It is also valued as one of few surviving early downtown Atlanta hotels.","period_of_significance":"1913-1959","architect_builder":"Stoddart, William L. (architect); George A. Fuller Company (builder)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Classical Revival (Neoclassical Revival)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Rehabilitated in 2006 as The Ellis on Peachtree hotel; the current function is listed as hotel. The building was vacant from 1981 to 2006 apart from intermittent ground-floor retail leases.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.079493-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/09000185.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000185/1ae763200f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000185/1ae763200f-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Eoghanacht","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winecoff-Hotel-Atlanta-01.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Eoghanacht</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winecoff-Hotel-Atlanta-01.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/93208404","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8024952"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/winecoff-hotel-09000185/"}