Historical Marker

U.S. Courthouse, Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta · Fulton County

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Designed by Treasury architect James Knox Taylor and finished in 1911, this Renaissance Revival building served as Atlanta's main post office before becoming a federal courthouse, a survivor of the Fairlie-Poplar district's early skyscraper boom.

About this site

U.S. Courthouse, Atlanta, Georgia is a historical marker in Atlanta, Fulton County. It is one of 357 historical markers documented in Fulton County, among 643 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 33.7561, -84.3903 near Atlanta. The nearest cataloged historic site is Grant, W. D., Building (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Healey Building, Retail Credit Company Home Office Building, and Citizen's and Southern Bank Building.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

📍 33.7561, -84.3903 · Atlanta, Fulton County
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