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GT ID Number: gtanno189899-139
Location:
T171 .G42 G49x 1888-1899
Title:
Ground plan of the first and second floor of Academic Building and Blacksmith Shop, School of Technology]
Date: 1899?
Content:
Floor plans of the Academic Building and Blacksmith Shop.
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History:
From the 1888-99 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.
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