Location:
GTVA-OVZ-800

Title:
[Administration Building]

Date:
Unknown

Content:
Writing on back of print: Drury '83.

History:
From the 1899-1903 Announcements: The Academic building is a splendid edifice of brick, trimmed with granite and terra cotta, slate roof. It has one hundred and thirty feet front, is one hundred and twenty deep and is four stories high above basement story. It contains ample accommodations in halls, offices, apparatus rooms, recitations and lecture rooms, free hand and mechanical drawing rooms, library and chapel. From Warren Drury's thesis: The original two buildings at Georgia Tech, the Academic Building (now Administration Building or "Tech Tower") and the Shop Building (now destroyed), were designed during the end of the Victorian Age. American architecture of this time was strongly influenced by the English "High Victorian" Movement of the third quarter of this century. Designed by the architectural firm of Bruce and Morgan, a firm considered the most prestigious civic architecture firm in Atlanta and the Southeast region at the time.