AJC Flashback Photos: Atlanta’s Mitchell Street through the years

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Flashback Photos: Atlanta’s Mitchell Street through the years

Take a trip back in time along one of Atlanta’s major thoroughfares via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s photo archives and the GSU Digital Collections website.

Atlanta, GA: An old photo showing the hotels on historic hotel row on Mitchell Street. Three land owners are working together to build more than 1,000 condos in the old bank headquarters at 222 Mitchell Street and in the old Northern Southern Railway Co. office on Spring Street. (COPY PHOTO BY FRANK NIEMEIR / AJC Staff)

The Terminal Hotel at the corner of Spring and Mitchell streets in downtown Atlanta caught fire May 16, 1938. A reported 35 people perished making it one of the deadliest fires in Atlanta history. Credit: Atlanta Journal staff

Atlanta, Ga: State buildings on Mitchell Street. (1952)

March 22, 1982 - Atlanta, Ga.: 'Hotel Row' on Mitchell Street consists of small, lower class hotels containing the Sylvan Hotel, Scoville Hotel and Hotel Gordon.

May 8, 1908 - Atlanta, Ga.: The Terminal District fire consumed buildings a square block area bordered by Spring (then Madison Ave.), Mitchell, Nelson and South Forsyth Streets.

May 8, 1908 - Atlanta, Ga.: Crowds stare at the ruins of buildings from one of Atlanta's great fires. Note: all vehicles are horsedrawn. The Terminal District fire consumed building a square block boardered by Spring (then Madison Ave.), Mitchell, Nelson and South Forsyth Streets. Photo taken from roof of Terminal Station.

ATLANTA, GA - Aug. 10, 1965 - Standard Gas station at the corner of Mitchell Street and Central Avenue. Georgia Capitol building in background. (Guy Hayes/AJC staff) 1965

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