{"nrhp_refnum":"77000424","name":"Candler Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"127 Peachtree St., NE","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.757414923000056,"lon":-84.38764692199999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-08-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 17-story commercial office high-rise at 127 Peachtree Street, N.E., in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, built 1903-1906 for Asa G. Candler and designed by architects George E. Murphy and George Stewart.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an excellent example of the early twentieth-century approach of building as a monument, significant in architecture for its completeness as a business structure and in art and sculpture for its elaborate detail. It was meant to honor Asa G. Candler as much as to serve as an office building, and it is described as one of the most functionally complete high-rises extant.","narrative":"Rising 17 stories at the corner of Peachtree, Houston and Pryor Streets in downtown Atlanta, the Candler Building was constructed between 1903 and 1906 as an office and commercial tower for Asa G. Candler, the Coca-Cola entrepreneur. Architects George E. Murphy and George Stewart designed it on the former site of Atlanta's First Methodist Church. Its steel skeleton was sheathed in white marble from Cherokee County, and its facade is divided into a base, shaft and bracketed cornice. Carved panels depict the arts and sciences, and sculpture adorns the entrances. Inside, it offered a banking hall, floors for doctors and dentists, hydraulic elevators, a barbershop and baths. The nomination values the building as an example of early twentieth-century monumental design, notable for its architecture, art and sculpture and for how completely it met the needs of a high-rise. The original interior has been heavily altered, though the exterior remains largely intact.","period_of_significance":"1903-1906","architect_builder":"George E. Murphy & George Stewart","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Exterior in excellent condition but altered; the interior has been extensively altered, with the original elevators replaced and the Houston Street entrance enclosed in glass. Listed as occupied and unoccupied.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.423492-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/77000424.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000424/5201fec832-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000424/5201fec832-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"Mike","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Candler_Building_Atlanta.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Candler_Building_Atlanta.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208120","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candler_Building_(Atlanta)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5031977"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/candler-building-77000424/"}