{"nrhp_refnum":"79000725","name":"Rhodes-Haverty Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"134 Peachtree St., NW","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.75724158000003,"lon":-84.38797599899993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-01-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A twenty-one-story steel-frame office building at 134 Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, designed by Pringle & Smith and completed around October 1929.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building marks a transition in Atlanta skyscraper design from Beaux Arts eclecticism toward later modern forms. It was Atlanta's tallest skyscraper from 1929 until 1954. It is also significant for its architects, Pringle & Smith, and its developers, A.G. Rhodes and J.J. Haverty, who were prominent Atlanta citizens.","narrative":"Rising twenty-one stories at 134 Peachtree Street in Atlanta, this steel-frame office building was completed around October 1929 to designs by Pringle & Smith, with Southern Ferro Concrete Company as builder. Its buff brick walls sit on a granite base and carry geometric terra cotta trim. The top three floors form a Romanesque temple front with corbeled arches, a projecting pediment and a heavy egg-and-dart cornice. The building was developed by furniture merchants A.G. Rhodes and J.J. Haverty through the Rhodes-Haverty Investment Company. It was Atlanta's tallest skyscraper until the Fulton National Bank was completed in 1954. The nomination presents it as a transition between Beaux Arts eclecticism and later modern skyscraper forms, and as an important work by a prominent architectural firm. Later changes include air-conditioning added after 1946, a lobby remodeled in 1967, and stone veneer on the lower three floors in the 1960s.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Architect: Pringle & Smith; Builder: Southern Ferro Concrete Co.","architectural_style":"Romanesque temple-style crown on a tri-part skyscraper design with geometric terra cotta trim; described as a transition from Beaux Arts eclecticism to modern forms","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied at the time of nomination; the lower three floors were altered with a 1960s stone veneer and the 1967 lobby remodeling, and the owners planned to modernize systems and restore some original interior features.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.415174-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/79000725.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000725/e0f5c5452e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000725/e0f5c5452e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ganeshk","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlanta_Rhodes-Haverty_Building_2012_09_15_02_6131.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ganeshk</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:Atlanta_Rhodes-Haverty_Building_2012_09_15_02_6131.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208316","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes%E2%80%93Haverty_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7320997"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/rhodes-haverty-building-79000725/"}