State of Georgia Building | |
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Former names | First National Bank Building Wachovia Bank of Georgia Building |
Alternative names | 2 Peachtree Street |
General information | |
Type | Government offices |
Location | 2 Peachtree Street Atlanta, Georgia United States |
Coordinates | 33°45′15″N 84°23′26″W / 33.754158°N 84.390589°W |
Completed | 1966 |
Owner | State of Georgia |
Height | |
Antenna spire | 182.6 m (599 ft) |
Roof | 169.47 m (556.0 ft) |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 44 |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) |
Cecil Alexander
[1] FABRAP Emery Roth & Sons |
References | |
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The State of Georgia Building (also known as 2 Peachtree Street and previously known as the First National Bank Building [6]) is a 44-story, 566 feet (173 m) skyscraper located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Built in 1966, the building was the tallest building in the Southeast at the time. [2] It was Atlanta's tallest until 1976, when the Westin Peachtree Plaza surpassed it. [2] It was built on the site of the Peachtree Arcade, A. Ten Eyck Brown's 1917 covered shopping arcade which connected Peachtree and Broad streets. [7] 2 Peachtree Street was originally constructed as the new headquarters building for First National Bank of Atlanta, also known as First Atlanta, [8] replacing its older (1905) headquarters building next door (the lower half of which remains today as Georgia State's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies). It was designed by a partnership of Atlanta architectural firm FABRAP and New York firm Emery Roth & Sons. [9] First Atlanta was acquired by the holding company for Wachovia Bank in 1985, but continued to operate under its own charter until 1991. [8] In 1991, under new liberalized banking laws, First Atlanta was merged into the charter of Wachovia Bank of Georgia. Shortly thereafter, Wachovia moved its Georgia offices to 191 Peachtree and 2 Peachtree Street was acquired by the state of Georgia for government offices. [2]