State of Georgia Building

The State of Georgia Building (also known as 2 Peachtree Street and previously known as the First National Bank Building<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>) is a 44-story, Template:Convert skyscraper located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Built in 1966, the building was the tallest building in the Southeast at the time.<ref name=emporis/> It was Atlanta's tallest until 1976, when the Westin Peachtree Plaza surpassed it.<ref name=emporis/> It was built on the site of the Peachtree Arcade, A. Ten Eyck Brown's 1917 covered shopping arcade which connected Peachtree and Broad streets.<ref>Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 1940s-1970s, Harold H. Martin, p.394</ref> 2 Peachtree Street was originally constructed as the new headquarters building for First National Bank of Atlanta, also known as First Atlanta,<ref name=NGE>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> replacing its older (1905) headquarters building next door (the lower half of which remains today as Georgia State's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies). It was designed by a partnership of Atlanta architectural firm FABRAP and New York firm Emery Roth & Sons.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> First Atlanta was acquired by the holding company for Wachovia Bank in 1985, but continued to operate under its own charter until 1991.<ref name=NGE/> In 1991, under new liberalized banking laws, First Atlanta was merged into the charter of Wachovia Bank of Georgia. Shortly thereafter, Wachovia moved its Georgia offices to 191 Peachtree and 2 Peachtree Street was acquired by the state of Georgia for government offices.<ref name=emporis/>

See also

• List of tallest buildings in Atlanta

External links

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