Whitehall Property Shows City's Growth
A historical look at Atlanta’s Whitehall Street development begins with William Markham selling early parcels to fund his cash reserves. The piece traces profits and foreseen value leaps from Jacobs’ Corner to the Stewarts site, noting dramatic increases from $15,900 to multi-thousand-per-front-foot valuations, and concluding Markham’s era anticipated growth proved prescient amid later price surges.
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Buck's Shoe
William Markham
E C. Jones
Bijou
Atlanta
American National Bank
Whitehall
Forsyth
First Presbyterian cl
Maier & Berkele
Marietta Street
Whitehall Tota
Alabama Street
Markham
Senatehall
Jacobs’ Corner
Whitehall and
Jaama
Ohe Jones
Nershoorne Bales
Welham Markham
TC Jones
Buck Brothers
Albany
E . Jones
D C Jones
Maler & Berkele
Jis Whitehall
Primus W Jones
Stewarts On Whitehall
Primus Jones
Steete
Old First Presbyterian Church Nears Historic Replacement
The Old First Presbyterian Church on Marietta Street faces demolition as a new office building rises at Sixteenth and Peachtree. Listed at 180000, two bids failed at 135000 and 150000. The 90 by 206 foot lot backs to railroad tracks, once donated by Judge Reuben Cone around 1830, with roots dating to a 1832 brick edifice. The surrounding business district grew, making preservation unlikely, and the church plans were finalized to sell and clear the site as Atlanta modernizes.
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First Presbyterian Church
Marietta Street
Sixteenth and
Peucitrer Streets
Reupen Cone
Cock & Stuart
J Wo Angish
Whchh
Cone
Atlanta
Incomplete Property Sale Sparks Cotton Jones Remark
A fragmentary report notes a past property sale involving John Morris and Cotton Jones. The text references a plot on Hunter Trail with a 80 by 80 foot frontage, a discussion of costliness, and Cotton Jones’s remark about potential uses and not purchasing.
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Cotton
Jones
John Morris Isis
Yaya
Hunter
Keely
Millions Invested in Atlanta Theaters
An estimate places total Atlanta theater investment at 2,150,600 dollars including the Grand Forsyth Lyric and Bijou with Armory excluded as city property. Values rise with Forsyth and Grand theaters near Peachtree and Pryor, while Bijou and Lyric offer varied prospects and family focus.
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Atlanta
Grand
Tia Forsyth
Lyric
Bijou
Auditorium Armory
Orpheum
Forsyth
Forsyth Street
Ansley
Forsyth and
Luckie
Ahouse
Pryor
Peachtree
Lse
Marietta
Exchange Place
Wll
Vate
Davison-Paxon-Stokes Building to Model Future Stores
Julian J. Jones of Jones & Barge says the Davison-Paxon-Stokes building will serve as a department store model for Whitehall and nearby streets. He notes the structure follows fire resistant design, includes ample sunlight, and showcases improvements over older narrow-windowed stores. The building is praised as a credit to its designers.
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Davison-Paxon-Stokes
Whitehall
Julian J. Jones
Jones & Barge
Cmpire
Jones
Davison-Paxt on-Stokes
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Marietta Streets
Hillyer
American Smhional Bank
Manta
Athough
Jona
Grand Oper
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