Antoine Graves was a senior citizen highrise in Atlanta, Georgia built in 1965. Located at 126 SE Hilliard St. SE, Downtown. Demolished 2009 including annex.
Antoine Graves was designed by architect John C. Portman, Jr. and was one of his earliest and most influential projects, his first atrium building and only public housing project. He adapted its atrium design in 1967 for the Hyatt Regency Atlanta, a building which brough Portman international fame. Portman pleaded to save the building to no avail. The building had been damaged in the 2008 tornado and according to the Atlanta Housing Authority was "functionally obsolete" with "tiny rooms" and containing asbestos.[1]
The highrise was named after Antoine Graves (1862-1941), a prominent realtor, first principal of Gate City Public School (1884-1886), and principal at the Storrs School, the first school in Atlanta for blacks.[2] His is the only mausoleum in the black section of Oakland Cemetery.[3][4]