{"nrhp_refnum":"79000719","name":"Bass Furniture Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"142--150 Mitchell St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.75196513000003,"lon":-84.39212958099995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-01-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A commercial building at 142-150 Mitchell Street in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, made up of two joined buildings: a west section built in the late 1890s and an east section built in 1924, unified by one facade.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant to both the architectural and historic development of Atlanta. Architect A. Ten Eyck Brown designed the unified Commercial Style facade and the east section in 1924. The site lies in the old Terminal District, once the city's social and commercial center, and its ownership history reflects the area's rise and decline.","narrative":"Two buildings joined behind one facade make up this commercial block on Mitchell Street in downtown Atlanta. The west section dates to the late 1890s, when A. K. Hawkes built it and ran a feed and grain store there. The east section was added in 1924 for the Sterchi Furniture Company, which hired architect A. Ten Eyck Brown to design it and to give both halves a matching Commercial Style front. That front features vertical pilasters linked by terra cotta arches, a brick cornice with lion-head gargoyles, and an angled northwest corner rising the full height. Fire in 1913 forced rebuilding of the first and second floors, and the ground level was modernized with aluminum and glass in the 1950s. The building sits in the former Old Terminal District, a major retail area that declined after the early twentieth century. It is described as one of the few surviving nineteenth-century structures in that part of the city.","period_of_significance":"1898-1899","architect_builder":"A. Ten Eyck Brown","architectural_style":"Commercial Style of the early 1900's","criteria":[],"status_note":"Marked occupied and in good condition; facade details are in fair condition. The ground floor was remodeled in the early 1950s with aluminum siding and large glass panes.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.382377-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/79000719.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000719/76cedd9f7c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000719/76cedd9f7c-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bass_Furniture_Building,_Atlanta,_GA_(33598210008).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bass_Furniture_Building,_Atlanta,_GA_(33598210008).jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100005409","name":"Whitehall Street Retail Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/whitehall-street-retail-historic-district-100005409/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208092","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134330649"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/bass-furniture-building-79000719/"}