Flatiron Building (Atlanta)

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Note: There are several buildings referred to as the Flatiron Building.

Atlanta has a Flatiron Building, completed five years before New York's in 1897, located at 74 Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, on the wedge-shaped block between Peachtree Street NE, Poplar Street NW, and Broad Street NW. Officially known as the English-American Building, it was designed by Burnham's Chicago school contemporary Bradford Gilbert. The building has 11 stories, and the same unique and prominent flatiron shape as its New York counterpart. It is the city's second and oldest standing skyscraper, and is protected by the city as a historic building in the Fairlie-Poplar district of downtown.

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• The English-American Building from National Park Service: Atlanta
• Photography of Atlanta's Flatiron Building
• Other buildings in the Fairlie-Poplar District