Fairlie-Poplar

Infobox_nrhp | name =Fairlie-Poplar Historic District
nrhp_type =hd


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location= Atlanta, GA
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architect= Multiple
architecture= Chicago, Art Deco, Other
added = September 9, 1982
governing_body = Local
refnum=82002416cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service] The Fairlie-Poplar Historic District is part of the central business district in central Atlanta. It is named for the two streets that cross its center, Fairlie and Poplar. Fairlie-Poplar is just northwest of Five Points, the longtime commercial heart of Atlanta. Roughly, it is bounded on the southwest by Marietta Street, on the southeast by Peachtree Street, on the northeast by Luckie Street, and on the northwest by Cone Street.

Fairlie-Poplar contains many commercial and office buildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Local interpretations of prevailing national architectural styles, including Chicago, Renaissance Revival, Neoclassical, Commercial, Art Deco, Georgian Revival, and Victorian styles, are found here. The buildings of the district also represent the shift in building technology from loadbearing masonry and timber walls to steel and concrete framing. Individual buildings listed in the National Register of Historic Places that lie within the Fairlie-Poplar Historic District include the Flatiron Building, the Empire/C & S Building, the Prudential/W.D. Grant Building, the Retail Credit Company Home Office Building, the Elbert P. Tuttle U.S. Court of Appeals Building, and the U.S. Post Office and Customshouse.

Fairlie-Poplar developed during the late 1800s, when Atlanta emerged as the commercial center of Georgia and the Southeast. At the time, the area was promoted as "Atlanta's new modern fireproof business district." It constituted a major northward expansion of Atlanta's post-Civil War business district, which was largely concentrated along Peachtree and Alabama Street (now Underground Atlanta) and along Marietta Street. The new business district contained a wide variety of wholesale and retail operations, which marketed a broad spectrum of consumer goods and services. Public agencies and many of Atlanta's business offices were also located here. Building materials included brick, stone, cast iron, wood, pressed metal, glazed terra-cotta, and plate glass. The buildings in this district range in height from two to 16 stories, the taller constructed with steel or concrete frames, while the smaller buildings were built with loadbearing masonry and timber structural systems.

Georgia State University

A few of the buildings that make up the Georgia State University campus are woven into the Fairlie-Poplar district. The first building that was acquired in Fairlie-Poplar was the former C&S Bank Building on Marietta Street in 1993, which became Robinson College of Business. The Rialto Theater and the Haas-Howell Building followed in 1996 on the corner of Forsyth St. and Luckie St. The Helen M. Aderhold Learning Center is also located on Luckie Street and is one of the most modern lecture buildings on the campus. The Aderhold Center also provides retail and restaurant space on the street level surrounding it causing it to further blend into the district.

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External links

* [http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/atlanta/ Atlanta, Georgia, a National Park Service "Discover Our Shared Heritage" Travel Itinerary]