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}} The Georgian Terrace Hotel in Midtown Atlanta, part of the Fox Theatre Historic District, was designed by architect William Lee Stoddart in a Beaux-Arts style that was intended to evoke the architecture of Paris. Construction commenced on July 21, 1910, and ended on September 8, 1911, and the hotel opened on October 2, 1911. The George C. Fuller Construction Company was contractor, and the developer was Joseph F. Gatins, Jr.〔 A 19-story wing, designed by Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart and Associates, was added in 1991.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Georgian Terrace Apartments )〕 A major renovation was completed in 2009. The Georgian Terrace is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. ==Architecture== The original 10-story Georgian Terrace Hotel was designed to conform to Atlanta’s early trolley rail lines that met at the corner of Peachtree Street and Ponce de Leon Avenue. It was one of the first hotels built outside of the city’s downtown business district in a then residential neighborhood, which had been land originally owned by Richard Peters. At a cost of $500,000, the hotel was built of butter-colored brick, marble, and limestone in the Beaux-Arts style as a Southern interpretation of the Parisian hotel. The hotel features classical architectural details, such as turreted corners, floor-to-ceiling Palladian-styled windows, and wide wrap-around columned terraces. The hotel is largely unadorned until its cornice line, which is embellished by highly-decorative terracotta. The Peachtree Street façade is composed of a two-story high window arcade set under a wide cornice supported on narrow pilasters and has a centered portico. The Ponce de Leon Avenue façade features a portico held up by four columns that rest on a rusticated, arcaded base. This portico was used as the Ladies Carriage entrance and provided access to the main hotel; the café terrace, which held exotic plants, tables, and chairs to resemble cafes in Europe; and a lower level of the hotel, which at one time housed the WAKE 1340AM radio station. Originally, the hotel had a prominent, tile-buttressed, shed roof cornice that was supported by ornamented, paired brackets, but this element was removed in 1945. The inside of the hotel was decorated with crystal and Italian-bronze chandeliers, white marble columns, ornate pilasters, paneled walls, elliptical staircases, and Italian-tiled floors. In addition to guest rooms, the hotel housed the Winter Garden, the Terrace Garden Lounging Room, which was almost entirely enclosed in glass, the Terrace Restaurant Grill Room, general management offices, an elevator, telephone booths, a curio booth, an “oak-mission” decorated Rathskeller, barber shops, a manicure parlor, and an ornate ballroom that was the setting for the 1939 ''Gone with the Wind'' Gala. All of the hotel's original furniture and interior furnishings were from M. Rich and Brothers Co., later Rich's.〔''Atlanta Historic Resources Workbook'' by the Atlanta Urban Design Commission, September 1981〕〔''AIA Guide to the Architecture of Atlanta'': University of Georgia Press, 1993〕〔Atlanta Preservation Center’s ''SoNo/Midtown Commercial District Tour Guide'': APC, 2009〕〔City of Atlanta Online: http://www.atlantaga.gov/government/urbandesign_georgianterr.aspx/〕〔''The Ponce Lobby'' by Richard Flinn, Director of Restoration for The Fox Theatre; 1981?, (), Ga.: n.p.〕〔''Rich's of Atlanta: The Story of a Store since 1867'' by Henry Givens Baker, 1953, Foote and Davies〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Georgian Terrace Hotel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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