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Atlanta is the capital of the state of Georgia, and as an urban area, Atlanta is one of the largest cities in the United States. The city’s history dates back to 1837, when it was founded as the terminus of one of the many railroads built in the U.S. states in the 19th century.
It was Georgia’s politicians who decided the construction of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, which got a railway station in the settlement of Terminus. Over the years Terminus became Atlanta. The beginning started slowly, and from 6 buildings and 30 inhabitants in 1842, about 6 million people live in Greater Atlanta today.
Atlanta is known for several things. Coca-Cola and CNN are two of the city’s companies, and this is also where one of the world’s largest airports is located. The city is in constant development and with many modern buildings that provide a characteristic, American metropolitan skyline.
From Atlanta, you can easily reach attractions in the surrounding area and neighboring states that include Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. If you want in nature, Providence Canyon State Park and Lake Lanier are good choices, while Athens, Macon and Nashville are some of the many exciting cities close by.
Georgia State Capitol is the government building for the state of Georgia, of which Atlanta is the capital. It is here that the governor has offices and it is here that the Parliament of Georgia holds its sessions. The parliament consists of two chambers, the Georgia State Senate and the Georgia House of Representatives.
Atlanta’s first city hall was located on this site in the growing city of the 1800s. At the time, Milledgeville was the capital of Georgia, and the city government of Atlanta donated the area to the state in order to attract the government and a relocation of the capital. Their venture succeeded, and Atlanta was chosen as the state’s new and, by the way, fifth capital.
Like many other Capitol buildings in the United States, the Georgia State Capitol was built in neoclassicism with inspiration from the United States Government Building in Washington. Architects Willoughby J. Edbrooke and Franklin Pierce Burnham were responsible for the design of the building, which was completed in 1889. The Capitol was modernly equipped with elevators, central heating and electric lighting. Among the details of the decoration is the dome, which is gilded with Georgia gold, and you can notice the statue of Miss Freedom at the top.
The same year as the opening of the building itself, the Georgia Capitol Museum was established. It is a museum that has natural and cultural history collections from the state. They consist of stones, minerals and fossils and various effects from Georgia’s Native American population. Portraits of governors, statues of celebrities from Georgia’s development, and historic flags can be seen in the Capitol.
Swan House is a beautiful mansion that was built 1925-1928 as a residence for the wealthy Edward and Emily Inman. The house is called the Swan House because of the swans that recur in several places in the decoration. Today, the mansion is open as a museum, where you get a fine impression of the 1920s-1930s interior design of Atlanta’s upper class.
It was the architect Philip T. Shutze who designed the Swan House, who used different styles in the design, mainly kept in Neo-Renaissance with elements of Italian Classicism and English-Palladian style. The western facade with the cascade system facing the garden is a beautiful example from Renaissance Italy.
World of Coca-Cola is a museum that tells the story of the popular soft drink, Coca-Cola. The museum is a few blocks from where John Pemberton invented the original recipe for the soda. In addition to learning about the history of the drink, you can taste different colas and other soft drinks on a visit to the site.
The first Coca-Cola Museum in Atlanta opened in 1990, and the current World of Coca-Cola opened its doors in 2007. At the popular museum, of course, there is an exhibition about the secret recipe of the soft drink, and you can watch various films, look at pop culture and much else that deals with Coca-Cola, including a visit to the vault where the Coca-Cola recipe is kept.
The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum is a complex that was established for Jimmy Carter, who in the years 1977-1981 was the 39th president of the United States. Carter came from Georgia, and today you can visit this library and museum in Atlanta that chronicles the Carter administration and Jimmy Carter’s presidency.
The library and museum are operated by The National Archives and Records Administration as part of the Presidential Library System of the United States. Among the highlights for visitors is a replica of the Oval Office of the White House as it appeared in Carter’s time.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta in 1929, and he became known as a leading figure in the American civil rights movement. Today, a number of buildings such as his birthplace and church are parts of a national historical park, where you can learn the story of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park contains the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where both Martin Luther King, Jr. and his father was a priest. It was also from this church that Martin Luther King, Jr. was buried on April 9, 1968, which was five days after he had been killed.
In the national historical park, you can also get good insights into the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement at the site’s visitor center. And you can see King’s childhood home, located near Ebenezer Baptist Church at 501 Auburn Avenue. King was born here in 1929, and the family lived in the house until 1941. In the center of the area is Martin Luther King, Jr. buried with his wife and their grave can be visited next to the Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Fox Theatre is a beautiful building that opened in 1929 as one of Atlanta’s premier movie theaters. The building was originally intended as part of a temple, and that is the reason for the Moorish architecture. There is also an Egyptian style in the interior design of the theatre, whose auditorium was built for 4,665 spectators.
The old cinema building is at the center of the so-called Fox Theatre Historic District, which consists of four contemporary buildings that together form an historic area in Atlanta.
In addition to the Fox Theatre, the historic area consists of the Cox-Carlton Hotel from 1925, architect William Lee Stoddart’s Ponce de Leon Apartments from 1913, and the same Stoddart’s Georgian Terrace Hotel from 1911, which became famous in 1939 for holding the gala event at the premiere of the film Gone with the Wind. The premiere itself was shown at Loew’s Grand Theatre, located in downtown Atlanta.
High Museum of Art is one of the southeastern United States’ leading art museums. It was founded in 1905 as the Atlanta Art Association, and the collections have since grown to include thousands of works of art from many parts of the world. Many well-known artists are represented in the collections.
Known simply as The High, the museum is particularly known for American decorative arts from the 1800s and 1900s, modern and contemporary art, but also has collections of European and African art. The name High comes from the High family, who in 1926 donated their home on Peachtree Street to house art exhibits.
Atlanta City Hall is a large office and meeting building that was inaugurated in 1930. The building is Atlanta’s fourth city hall, and the architectural style can best be described as neo-gothic with touches of the art deco of the time. One detail is the Green Roof, which forms a small garden on the roof of the city hall.
Atlanta City Hall is typical of many larger city hall buildings in the United States. It was the architect Geoffrey Lloyd Preacher who designed the house at a height of 65 meters. Incidentally, it was in this very place that the Northern general William Tecumseh Sherman used a house as his headquarters after his invasion of Georgia in 1864.
Many are probably familiar with the Flatiron Building in New York City, but this version in Atlanta was built in 1897 and thus several years before the more well-known version to the north. The 11-storey building stands as the city’s oldest preserved high-rise building.
The Flatiron Building is officially called the English-American Building, but got its nickname because of the pointed and iron-shaped ground on which the house was built. It was the architect Bradford Gilbert who designed the characteristic high-rise building.
The Rhodes-Haverty Building is a high-rise building that was built in 1929, and at the time it was Atlanta’s tallest building. The builders were the furniture manufacturers Amos Giles Rhodes and James Joseph Haverty. In terms of design, the building was inspired by the art deco of the time, and this is visible in the beautiful lobby.
It was Atlanta architects Pringle and Smith who designed the building, which stood as the city’s tallest skyscraper at 21 stories and 75 meters high until 1958, when it was surpassed by 15 meters by the Fulton National Bank.
Underground Atlanta is an interesting area with shops and activities located in an old setting that dates to the years after the American Civil War in the 1860s. The area was once covered in connection with traffic facilities, and the old house facades were rediscovered in the 1960s and then developed.
At the entrance stands the 1869 Georgia Railroad Freight Depot, the oldest structure in Atlanta’s downtown. The building was the main warehouse building for The Georgia Railroad and Banking Company.
The railways in the area were the reason that the street level in the center was raised during new construction, and on that occasion the streets Pryor, Alabama, Ponder’s Alley and Kenny’s Alley were, so to speak, hidden under the new level of the city’s streets, and the same happened to the old house facades.
Today, you can therefore see the old and renovated house facades below the street level of the area’s modern buildings. You can also experience an atmospheric urban space above ground, where a number of old houses stand in the streets.
The Fulton County Courthouse is one of Atlanta’s courthouses. The monumental structure was built in the years 1911-1914 and stands alongside other institutional buildings in the Government Quarter, where you will also find the Atlanta City Hall and the Georgia State Capitol.
The courthouse was designed by the New York architect Albert Ten Eyck Brown, who was the creator of several buildings in contemporary Atlanta. His works ranged from the courthouse and other public structures to houses, markets and a church, and he was one of the city’s leading architects.
The Atlanta Marriott Marquis is a hotel and also one of Atlanta’s many modern buildings. Due to its exterior design, the hotel has been nicknamed ‘the pregnant building’. It was architect John C. Portman Jr. who designed the hotel, which was completed in 1985.
The hotel high-rise is famous for its interior atrium, which is a fantastic space that is open throughout the building’s height of 143 meters. It creates special perspectives, and the place has also been used as a location in various film productions.
The Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel is a modern hotel that stands on the site of the first official residence of the governor of the State of Georgia in Atlanta. The 220 meter high hotel was the city’s tallest building in the years 1976-1987, and in the first year it was also the world’s tallest hotel.
With its cylindrical shape, the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel stands as one of Atlanta’s most characteristic high-rises, and at the top there is a revolving restaurant with a beautiful view of the city. There are two floors that rotate and they do so in 30 and 60 minutes respectively.
Bank of America Plaza opened in 1992 as Atlanta’s and Georgia’s tallest building. The height is 311 metres, and there are 55 office floors in the high-rise. The building with the pointed top naturally forms a significant part of the city’s skyline.
Bank of America Plaza was designed by the architectural firm Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates LLC, and they used art deco as inspiration for the chosen postmodern architectural style. At the top of the building, there is an open pyramid shape with an obelisk on top, and the entire top is beautifully illuminated in the evening.
Atlanta hosted the Olympic Games in 1996, and the Centennial Olympic Park was built for the games. It is a recreational area in the city center with large lawns and lots of activities such as concerts, festivals and celebrations of American Independence Day.
Centennial Olympic Park was constructed in two phases just before and after the the games in 1996. It was done in an area with abandoned and dilapidated buildings, and thereby this part of Atlanta was revitalized into a great asset for the city. From here you can also enjoy the view of the city’s skyscrapers and visit popular places such as the World of Coca-Cola and the Georgia Aquarium.
Lake Lanier is a reservoir that was created with the construction of Buford Dam in 1956 across the Chattahoochee River. The reservoir or lake’s long and winding coastline, islands and forests form a large and popular recreational area close to the big city of Atlanta, and in the beautiful area there are many accommodation options and various activities on and by the lake.
Lake Lanier attracts many visitors who swim, boat, jet ski and otherwise enjoy the waters of Georgia’s largest lake. At the 1996 Olympic Games, the rowing competitions during the Games were held in Lake Lanier, where you will also find several marinas. There are also resorts, golf courses and much more to do on the Lake Lanier Islands.
Athens is a cozy university town in Georgia. It offers a number of attractions such as the city’s beautiful town hall and the university’s State Botanical Garden of Georgia. With around 125,000 inhabitants, Athens is also an interesting contrast to the big city of Atlanta.
The town’s history began in the late 1700s, when a trading post was established on the banks of the Oconee River. Soon after, a university was established in the city, and since then it has left its mark on Athens, which is a distinctly cultural and educated city. The first students graduated in 1804, and at that time there were only a few buildings along the main street, which is now named Broad Street.
In addition to the city’s beautiful town hall and botanical garden, there are several things to see in Athens, whose central streets are pleasant for a stroll. Here, for example, you can go to the corner of College Avenue and E Hancock Avenue, where you can see a double-barrelled cannon from the American Civil War. You can also walk to the corner of S Finley Street and Dearing Street where ‘The Tree That Owns Itself’ stands. It is a tree that legally owns the land under and around it.
Macon is a city that is close to the center of Georgia and is also called The Heart of Georgia. Macon was founded in 1823 along the banks of the Ocmulgee River, and the city’s expansion took place in accordance with James Webb’s town plan, whose center today forms what is known as the Macon Historic District. It is a neighborhood in the city where you can enjoy many houses from the 19th-century Victorian architecture. From that time you can also see the Johnston–Felton–Hay House, called the Palace of the South.
There are quite a few interesting things to see in Macon, both in the Macon Historic District and in other neighborhoods. For example, you can see Terminal Station from 1916, which was designed by the architect Alfred T. Fellheimer, who also designed Grand Central Terminal in New York. You can also go to Macon City Hall, which is a classicist building that was built in 1837. The city hall was temporarily Georgia’s Capitol during the American Civil War.
East of the Ocmulgee River you can see Fort Benjamin Hawkins, which was built as a military outpost in the years 1806-1810. In the same area is the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park, where there are preserved remains of large earthworks created by the Native American culture of the 9th and 10th centuries.
The Blue Ridge Scenic Railway is a vintage railroad that runs between Blue Ridge and McCaysville in northern Georgia. The train follows the Toccoa River and it runs through forests and over old bridges with wagons from the railroads of yesteryear. A trip on the track is therefore like going back in time to the golden age of railways in the USA.
The tracks in the area were laid from the city of Marietta, reaching the Blue Ridge area in 1886. The tracks were expanded over the following decades, and in 1905 a station was built at Blue Ridge. The last passenger train left the station in 1951, while freight trains ran until 1987. Three years later, work began on the establishment of the vintage railway, which opened in 1998.
Chattanooga is a city in the state of Tennessee, located on the Tennessee River. It is a city that was strategically important in the American Civil War in the 1860s due to its status as a railroad hub. Since the war, Chattanooga also grew as a transportation center, and in this way it became an important industrial city. The city also became known from the song Chattanooga Choo Choo, which describes a train journey from New York to Terminal Station in Chattanooga.
There are several things to see and do in Chattanooga today, including many museums and activities for the whole family as well as several architectural sights. These include, for example, the attractions Tennessee Aquarium and the Creative Discovery Museum, and the James Building from 1907 and the Walnut Street Bridge from 1890 as architectural sights.
In addition to the Walnut Street Bridge, the Market Street Bridge, Olgiati Bridge and Veterans Memorial Bridge span the Tennessee River, providing access to beautiful walks along the Tennessee Riverwalk and in Coolidge Park. Also worth seeing is the Chattanooga Choo-Choo Hotel, which opened as Terminal Station in 1909 and hosts more activities today. You can also choose to see the city from above on a trip to Lookout Mountain just south of Chattanooga, where you get more than 400 meters above the surrounding terrain.
Providence Canyon State Park is a state park in Georgia with a beautiful landscape around the gorge Providence Canyon. The gorge is also called Georgia’s little Grand Canyon and offers beautiful scenery. However, unlike the Grand Canyon, Providence Canyon was created through human activity, more specifically due to agriculture in the 1800s. Today you can enjoy the fine landscape on several hiking trails in and around the gorge.
The state park’s 400-hectare area is on marine sediments that are clayey with small areas of sand. The contrasts and the gorge were created by partial erosion of the area, and the gorge was formed thereby. The unusual geological formations were created by erosion of the coastal plain after years of poor farming practices, and this has made it possible to walk for miles along sandy nature trails.
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Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Overview of Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital of the state of Georgia, and as an urban area, Atlanta is one of the largest cities in the United States. The city’s history dates back to 1837, when it was founded as the terminus of one of the many railroads built in the U.S. states in the 19th century.
It was Georgia’s politicians who decided the construction of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, which got a railway station in the settlement of Terminus. Over the years Terminus became Atlanta. The beginning started slowly, and from 6 buildings and 30 inhabitants in 1842, about 6 million people live in Greater Atlanta today.
Atlanta is known for several things. Coca-Cola and CNN are two of the city’s companies, and this is also where one of the world’s largest airports is located. The city is in constant development and with many modern buildings that provide a characteristic, American metropolitan skyline.
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High Museum of Art is one of the southeastern United States’ leading art museums. It was founded in 1905 as the Atlanta Art Association, and the collections have since grown to include thousands of works of art from many parts of the world. Many well-known artists are represented in the collections.
Known simply as The High, the museum is particularly known for American decorative arts from the 1800s and 1900s, modern and contemporary art, but also has collections of European and African art. The name High comes from the High family, who in 1926 donated their home on Peachtree Street to house art exhibits.
Atlanta City Hall is a large office and meeting building that was inaugurated in 1930. The building is Atlanta’s fourth city hall, and the architectural style can best be described as neo-gothic with touches of the art deco of the time. One detail is the Green Roof, which forms a small garden on the roof of the city hall.
Atlanta City Hall is typical of many larger city hall buildings in the United States. It was the architect Geoffrey Lloyd Preacher who designed the house at a height of 65 meters. Incidentally, it was in this very place that the Northern general William Tecumseh Sherman used a house as his headquarters after his invasion of Georgia in 1864.
Many are probably familiar with the Flatiron Building in New York City, but this version in Atlanta was built in 1897 and thus several years before the more well-known version to the north. The 11-storey building stands as the city’s oldest preserved high-rise building.
The Flatiron Building is officially called the English-American Building, but got its nickname because of the pointed and iron-shaped ground on which the house was built. It was the architect Bradford Gilbert who designed the characteristic high-rise building.
The Rhodes-Haverty Building is a high-rise building that was built in 1929, and at the time it was Atlanta’s tallest building. The builders were the furniture manufacturers Amos Giles Rhodes and James Joseph Haverty. In terms of design, the building was inspired by the art deco of the time, and this is visible in the beautiful lobby.
It was Atlanta architects Pringle and Smith who designed the building, which stood as the city’s tallest skyscraper at 21 stories and 75 meters high until 1958, when it was surpassed by 15 meters by the Fulton National Bank.
Underground Atlanta is an interesting area with shops and activities located in an old setting that dates to the years after the American Civil War in the 1860s. The area was once covered in connection with traffic facilities, and the old house facades were rediscovered in the 1960s and then developed.
At the entrance stands the 1869 Georgia Railroad Freight Depot, the oldest structure in Atlanta’s downtown. The building was the main warehouse building for The Georgia Railroad and Banking Company.
The railways in the area were the reason that the street level in the center was raised during new construction, and on that occasion the streets Pryor, Alabama, Ponder’s Alley and Kenny’s Alley were, so to speak, hidden under the new level of the city’s streets, and the same happened to the old house facades.
Today, you can therefore see the old and renovated house facades below the street level of the area’s modern buildings. You can also experience an atmospheric urban space above ground, where a number of old houses stand in the streets.
The Fulton County Courthouse is one of Atlanta’s courthouses. The monumental structure was built in the years 1911-1914 and stands alongside other institutional buildings in the Government Quarter, where you will also find the Atlanta City Hall and the Georgia State Capitol.
The courthouse was designed by the New York architect Albert Ten Eyck Brown, who was the creator of several buildings in contemporary Atlanta. His works ranged from the courthouse and other public structures to houses, markets and a church, and he was one of the city’s leading architects.
The Atlanta Marriott Marquis is a hotel and also one of Atlanta’s many modern buildings. Due to its exterior design, the hotel has been nicknamed ‘the pregnant building’. It was architect John C. Portman Jr. who designed the hotel, which was completed in 1985.
The hotel high-rise is famous for its interior atrium, which is a fantastic space that is open throughout the building’s height of 143 meters. It creates special perspectives, and the place has also been used as a location in various film productions.
The Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel is a modern hotel that stands on the site of the first official residence of the governor of the State of Georgia in Atlanta. The 220 meter high hotel was the city’s tallest building in the years 1976-1987, and in the first year it was also the world’s tallest hotel.
With its cylindrical shape, the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel stands as one of Atlanta’s most characteristic high-rises, and at the top there is a revolving restaurant with a beautiful view of the city. There are two floors that rotate and they do so in 30 and 60 minutes respectively.
Bank of America Plaza opened in 1992 as Atlanta’s and Georgia’s tallest building. The height is 311 metres, and there are 55 office floors in the high-rise. The building with the pointed top naturally forms a significant part of the city’s skyline.
Bank of America Plaza was designed by the architectural firm Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates LLC, and they used art deco as inspiration for the chosen postmodern architectural style. At the top of the building, there is an open pyramid shape with an obelisk on top, and the entire top is beautifully illuminated in the evening.
Atlanta hosted the Olympic Games in 1996, and the Centennial Olympic Park was built for the games. It is a recreational area in the city center with large lawns and lots of activities such as concerts, festivals and celebrations of American Independence Day.
Centennial Olympic Park was constructed in two phases just before and after the the games in 1996. It was done in an area with abandoned and dilapidated buildings, and thereby this part of Atlanta was revitalized into a great asset for the city. From here you can also enjoy the view of the city’s skyscrapers and visit popular places such as the World of Coca-Cola and the Georgia Aquarium.
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