Parrott Insurance Building - Athens, GA
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member ChapterhouseInc
N 33° 57.475 W 083° 22.475
17S E 280580 N 3760030
Located in Historic Downtown Athens, faces UGA campus. Currently home to the 283 Bar.
Waymark Code: WMNKK
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 08/27/2006
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member silverquill
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The Parrott Insurance Building, previously the Athens Savings Bank, is located at 283 East Broad Street (Tax Parcel No. 17-1-B5-D-017).

This three-story commercial building bears a Richardsonian Romanesque style front facade. A large round-arched entrance frames the deeply recessed doorway, which features rough hewn stone, a flat lintel, a radiating voussoir segmental arch, and flanking windows. Two string courses divide the second and third stories. Three Italinate stone-arch windows form the bays separated by Doric brickwork pilasters. A double-triangulated, pediment dormer caps the four stone brackets of the projecting cornice. Pyramidal turrets accent the mansard roof. The original interior floor plan, still intact, has two rooms with a side wall stairwell.

In 1858 William T. Stark purchased the site, which then contained a brick store, from John I. Huggins. In 1862 Thomas Bishop acquired the property. A value increase in the tax records for 1886 suggest that the present facade was added that year. The Atlanta National Building and Loan Association bought the property in 1891 and subsequently sold it in 1928 to the National Bank of Athens. Charles Parrott & Associates occupied the building in the 1930s and eventually purchased it in 1950. In 1975 the third floor was adaptively restored as a townhouse apartment.

Street address:
283 E. Broad St.
Athens, GA


County / Borough / Parish: Clarke

Year listed: 1977

Historic (Areas of) Significance: Architecture/Engineering, Event

Periods of significance: 1850-1874, 1875-1899

Historic function: Commerce/Trade: Financial Institution

Current function: Commerce/Trade, Domestic: Business, Multiple Dwelling

Privately owned?: yes

Primary Web Site: [Web Link]

Secondary Website 1: [Web Link]

Season start / Season finish: Not listed

Hours of operation: Not listed

Secondary Website 2: Not listed

National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed

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