{"nrhp_refnum":"82002416","name":"Fairlie-Poplar Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Peachtree, Luckie, Cone, and Marietta Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.755282238000035,"lon":-84.38985815604883,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-09-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A commercial historic district of about 10 acres in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, just northwest of the Five Points intersection, made up of late nineteenth and early twentieth century commercial and office buildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is the largest and most concentrated intact part of Atlanta's late nineteenth and early twentieth century central business district. It holds the city's largest collection of commercial and office buildings from the period, including almost all of its early skyscrapers. It also shows the shift in building technology and the commercial growth of Atlanta as the center of Georgia and the Southeast.","narrative":"Fairlie-Poplar is a roughly 10-acre commercial district in downtown Atlanta, just northwest of Five Points. Its narrow streets follow a rigid grid, and brick, stone, cast iron, terra cotta and plate glass buildings rise two to sixteen stories, built to the sidewalk line and sharing party walls. The district holds Atlanta's oldest skyscrapers alongside Victorian storefronts, early twentieth century office buildings and loft structures, in styles ranging from Victorian Eclectic and Chicago to Renaissance Revival, Neoclassical and Art Deco. It was listed because it is the largest and most concentrated intact remnant of the city's late nineteenth and early twentieth century business center. Once billed as Atlanta's new modern fire-proof business district, it grew northward from the older railroad-centered downtown as Atlanta became the commercial hub of Georgia and the Southeast. The buildings also illustrate the move from loadbearing masonry and timber to steel and concrete framing, and early elevators and air conditioning. Six buildings in the district were already individually listed.","period_of_significance":"late 19th - early 20th century","architect_builder":"Numerous","architectural_style":"Victorian Eclectic, Chicago, Renaissance Revival, Neoclassical, Commercial, Georgian Revival, and Art Deco","criteria":[],"status_note":"Marked occupied, in good condition and partly altered; street improvements were under way as part of a revitalization program. Few non-contributing buildings.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.152568-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/82002416.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002416/8b138fd341-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002416/8b138fd341-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Atlantacitizen at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corner_of_Poplar_and_Fairlie,_Atlanta,_GA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlantacitizen at English Wikipedia</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corner_of_Poplar_and_Fairlie,_Atlanta,_GA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208166","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairlie%E2%80%93Poplar,_Atlanta","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5430540"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/fairlie-poplar-historic-district-82002416/"}