{"nrhp_refnum":"80001071","name":"Atlanta Biltmore Hotel and Biltmore Apartments","other_names":["The Biltmore"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"817 W. Peachtree St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.77686028900007,"lon":-84.38630070999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-01-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A hotel and a separate apartment building, both completed in 1924, on a city block at 817 West Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia. The eleven-story hotel and ten-story apartment building were designed by Leonard Schultze and built by Starrett Brothers.","why_significant":"The nomination holds that the complex is significant in Atlanta urban and commercial history and Georgia architectural history. It is an excellent example of the grand hotels built across America in the 1920s, and its size and location mark Atlanta's commercial progress. Its neo-Georgian design was meant to reflect the refined grace of the New South.","narrative":"Two red brick buildings on West Peachtree Street in Atlanta make up the Biltmore: an eleven-story hotel and a ten-story apartment building, both completed in 1924. Leonard Schultze of the New York firm Schultze and Weaver designed them, and Starrett Brothers built them. Both have reinforced-concrete frames faced in brick laid in English bond, with neo-Georgian detailing such as pedimented windows, limestone corner pilasters and two-story porticoes with paired columns. Financing came largely from William Candler, a son of Coca-Cola's Asa G. Candler, working with hotelier John McEntee Bowman. The $6 million hotel opened in April 1924 and became a gathering place for civic groups, the first home of the Atlanta Historical Society, and the studio home of WSB radio for over thirty years. It was listed as an excellent example of the grand 1920s hotel and a marker of Atlanta's commercial growth. The 1969 lobby remodeling altered some original character, and the rear garden terrace is gone, but the main dining room and ballroom are largely intact.","period_of_significance":"1923-Present","architect_builder":"Leonard Schultze, architect; Starrett Brothers, builders","architectural_style":"Neo-Georgian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as a convention hotel; the former apartment building has been reserved for hotel accommodations since 1969. Condition is marked good.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.363183-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001071.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001071/b13cd5696f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001071/b13cd5696f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Jeff Clemmons","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biltmore_Hotel.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeff Clemmons</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biltmore_Hotel.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208070","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Biltmore_Hotel_and_Biltmore_Apartments","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4816011"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/atlanta-biltmore-hotel-and-biltmore-apartments-80001071/"}