{"nrhp_refnum":"97001123","name":"Davis, H.B., Building-Hotel Roxy","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"764-772 Marietta St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.77561687700006,"lon":-84.40426014899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-09-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story yellow and red brick commercial building at 764-772 Marietta Street in northwest Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, built in 1921 by H.B. Davis as a store and office building and later used as the Hotel Roxy.","why_significant":"It is presented as an excellent, intact example of an early 20th-century commercial building with Stripped Classical features that dominated a developing commercial street. It also reflects the commercial growth of Marietta Street, first as a shopping street and later through the Hotel Roxy, which housed transient guests and long-term workers.","narrative":"Built in 1921 at 764-772 Marietta Street in northwest Atlanta, this three-story brick building was constructed by dry goods merchant H.B. Davis. Its yellow brick front has brick pilasters, a wide frieze and a cast stone cornice, and it rose above the mostly one- and two-story buildings nearby. The ground floor held seven stores serving a blue-collar neighborhood, while the upper floors were planned as offices. Rentals on the second floor proved hard to keep, and the Depression closed some stores. In 1939 the upper floors were converted into the Hotel Roxy, with a regular hotel on the second floor and rooms for long-term renters such as railroad workers on the third. The hotel was busy during World War II and operated until 1954. Marietta Street later declined as streetcars ended and neighborhoods changed. In 1995 the building became loft apartments with shops. It was listed for its commercial history and its Stripped Classical design.","period_of_significance":"1921-1947","architect_builder":"unknown (built by H.B. Davis in 1921)","architectural_style":"OTHER/Stripped Classical","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Converted in 1995 through a certified rehabilitation into loft apartments with ground-floor retail stores.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.794356-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/97001123.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001123/50b42bb8bd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001123/50b42bb8bd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_Roxy,_Atlanta_GA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</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:Hotel_Roxy,_Atlanta_GA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208150","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Roxy","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16892472"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/davis-h-b-building-hotel-roxy-97001123/"}