Fulton County Courthouse - Atlanta, GA
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The Fulton County Courthouse was completed in 1914 at a cost of $1,250,000, Fulton County had Georgia's first million-dollar courthouse. It was also the largest, surpassing in square footage even the Georgia state capitol.
Waymark Code: WM5FPQ
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 01/01/2009
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14. The FULTON COUNTY COURTHOUSE, corner of Pryor and Hunter streets, is a nine-story and basement building, completed in 1914, and originally intended primarily to accommodate the county superior, civil, and criminal courts, and their associated offices. In the classical style, the exterior is of granite up to the second story and of glazed terra cotta beyond. As the county grew, its enlarged and also increasing services, such as Taxes, Welfare, Education, Civil Service, Purchasing, Farm Promotion, etc., functions not pertinent to the courts, required office space which had to be found in the Courthouse. The recent $20,000,000 Fulton County bond issue provided $2 million to build the New County Administration Building adjacent to the Courthouse.
Today
The building still functions as a courthouse. The name has been changed to the Lewis R. Slaton Courthouse, but the building still appears the same as it did in the 1940’s.
The courthouse was designed by A. Ten Eyck Brown (Morgan & Dillion, associate architects) and built in the Neoclassical Revival/Beaux Arts Classicism style. Due to Fulton County's growing population by the 1960s additional facilities were needed for the county's government. The courthouse occupied half of a square block, so a new six-story Fulton County Administration Building was built behind it to house county agencies, officials, and the Fulton County Commission. By the 1980s, however, county government had outgrown existing facilities, so in 1986 work began on a new Fulton County Government Center -- a large complex across the street from the entrance of the courthouse. Completed in 1989, this became the home for Fulton County administrative and legislative offices. In the mid-1990s, the old Administration Building was torn down and replaced by the nine-story Fulton County Justice Center Tower.
Georgia A Guide To Its Towns And Countryside (1940)
Author: Federal Writers Project Georgia
Publisher: Tupper And Love Atlanta
Language: English
Call number: 8333
Book: Georgia
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 39-40
Year Originally Published: 1940
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