Peachtree Arcade

July 1917 Atlanta Constitution article about the arcade's construction

The Peachtree Arcade was a shopping arcade in Downtown Atlanta which stood from 1917 to 1964 on the site of what is now the State of Georgia Building on Peachtree Street just south of Marietta Street. The architect was A. Ten Eyck Brown and the developer was R.R. Otis of the real estate firm Otis & Holliday. It featured Beaux-Arts style façades that opened onto both Peachtree and Broad streets. Inside, the building had marble and brass finish, three levels of shop corridors and an iron and glass ceiling.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

It was modeled after the Cleveland Arcade.^[1]

It had a frontage of 111 feet (34 m) on Peachtree Street, and extended back 316 feet (96 m) to Broad Street, on which it had 146 feet (45 m) of frontage. It specialized in ladies', men's, children's and home furnishings.^[1]

The building was demolished in 1964 to make way for the new headquarters of what was then the First National Bank of Atlanta; at the same time the top half of First National's then-existing headquarters building, adjacent to the north at the corner of Peachtree and Marietta streets, was removed. The remains of that building are now Georgia State's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.

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Coordinates: 33°45′15″N 84°23′26″W / 33.7542°N 84.3906°W / 33.7542; -84.3906