Atlanta's most endangered historic buildings

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These buildings represent just a sample from the Atlanta Preservation Center's 2014 list of endangered places.

Which of Atlanta's historic buildings are most at risk of being lost? These buildings represent just a sample from the Atlanta Preservation Center's 2014 list of endangered places (read the full list here). Seen here: The Rufus M. Rose House (537 Peachtree Street NE). Significance: The oldest remaining house on Peachtree Street. In recent years, the building's owner has been rehabilitating the structure and gradually restoring its splendor. Read more here. (Atlanta Preservation Center)

JUDGE WILLIAM WILSON HOUSE (501 Fairburn Road SW). Significance: Until its demolition in January 2016, it was one of only three remaining antebellum homes in Atlanta in its original site. It had suffered decades of neglect and became an unsafe structure. This photo is from the 1960s, before the structure was sold by Wilson's descendants. Read the APC's report here, and the AJC's full story on the demolition here. (Atlanta Preservation Center)

This is what the home looks like now, just a pile of rubble. The house had been listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but that recognition offered it no protection from local demolition laws. (MARK DAVIS / mdavis@ajc.com)

BELL BUILDING (25-27 Auburn Avenue). Significance: Originally built in 1907 for Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, with a classical theme at street level. The current owner GSU would like to raze the building but city officials say that they would deny any demolition request, according to the GSU Signal. Read more here. (PETE CORSON / pcorson@ajc.com)

MORRIS BROWN CAMPUS (643 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive NW): Significnace: Founded in 1881, this HBCU occupies the oldest individual campus in the Atlanta University complex, with Gaines Hall its oldest building (1869). The campus has fallen into disrepair since the loss of the school's accreditation in 2002 and three years of bankruptcy. The school has emerged from bankruptcy and is working to restore its accreditation. A fire in 2015 further damaged Gaines Hall (seen here in 2012), which led Mayor Kasim Reed to declare that the city would try to save the building. Read the APC's report here and learn more about the school's future plans here. (BOB ANDRES / AJC file)

FORSYTH-WALTON BUILDING (52 Walton Street). Significance: One of few early commercial buildings remaining in the Fairlie Poplar District. Owners Westplan Investors plan to replace the building with a cooling station for a next-door data center, while possibly recreating the building's Art Deco facade on the first two floors. Read the APC's report here and learn more about the building's famous Pipe Corner sign here. (PETE CORSON / pcorson@ajc.com)

GEORGIA ARCHIVES (330 Capitol Avenue SE). Significance: Modernist structure served as state archives building from 1965-2003. The Georgia Building Authority plans to raze the building and use the site as part of a large complex of judicial buildings. Read more here. (BRANT SANDERLIN / AJC file)

TRIO LAUNDRY DRY CLEANING BUILDING (20 Hilliard Street NE). Significance: Built in 1910, survived the Great Atlanta Fire of 1917, and represents the industrial roots of the neighborhood before the area became known as "Sweet Auburn." The building, which has its own preservationist Facebook page, is now owned by the Atlanta Housing Authority, which almost demolished it in 2014. This month, the AHA announced that it would look into possible new uses for the building. Read more here. (PETE CORSON / pcorson@ajc.com)

ATLANTA CONSTITUTION BUILDING (143 Alabama Street SW). Significance: Home of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper from 1947-53, an example of Art Moderne architecture. Development plans for the downtown "Gulch" continue to put this building at risk. Read the APC's report here, and learn more about the AJC's many homes over the years here. (PETE CORSON / pcorson@ajc.com)

PASCHAL'S RESTAURANT (830 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SW). Significance: Known informally as the "black city hall," this restaurant was a meeting place for Civil Rights Movement leaders throughout the 1960s. Now owned by Clark Atlanta University, the building has not been used in years. Read more here. (PETE CORSON / pcorson@ajc.com)

CONCORDIA HALL (201 Mitchell Street SW). Significance: One of six remaining buildings on historic Hotel Row, with a high Victorian facade, originally built for the Concordia Association, a 19th century Jewish cultural heritage organization. Read more here. The alligator mural on its side was painted in 2011 for the Living Walls arts festival, by the Belgian artist ROA. (PETE CORSON / pcorson@ajc.com)

CRUM & FORSTER BUILDING (771 Spring Street). Significance: Built in 1926 in the Italian Renaissance Revival style, designed in part by Ed Ivey, one of Georgia Tech's founding students of its architecture school. In 2013, the Georgia Tech Foundation demolished two-thirds of the building but kept the part that faces Spring Street, despite efforts by preservationists to keep the building intact. Read more here. (BITA HONARVAR / AJC file)

INTERLOCKING TOWER (in the downtown railroad gulch). Significance: The tower controlled all the switches into the Terminal Station (demolished in 1971) train yard. There is some worry that future development could cover this part of the Gulch with more overpasses. Read more here. (Atlanta Preservation Center)

JOHN WESLEY DOBBS HOUSE (540 John Wesley Dobbs Avenue NE). Significance: Home of John Wesley Dobbs, Grand Master of the Prince Hall Masons, community leader called the "mayor" of Auburn Avenue and grandfather of Maynard Jackson. Still used as a private residence. Read more here. (PETE CORSON / pcorson@ajc.com)

SPRING HILL MORTUARY (1020 Spring Street NW). Significance: Designed in an English manor style by Philip Shutze, one of Georgia's most acclaimed architects. The building sits on very valuable Midtown land, which makes it a natural target for possible redevelopment. Read more here. (PHIL SKINNER / AJC file)

UNDERGROUND ATLANTA (Alabama Street): Significance: Preserves early downtown commercial strip, including several 19th century buildings. (This photo is from 1975.) The potential buyer of Underground, South Carolina-based developer WRS Inc., hasn't outlined its full development plan for the site yet. Read the APC's report here and read the latest on the complicated Underground sale here. (AJC file)

MEDICAL ARTS BUILDING (384 Peachtree Street NE). Significance: Was one of the most state-of-the-art medical buildings when it was built in 1927, and its architect also built Atlanta's City Hall. The building has been vacant and sits deteriorating since since a fire in 1995. Read more here. (JASON GETZ / AJC file)

TRUST COMPANY BUILDING (2160 Monroe Drive). Significance: With an award-winning design by Atlanta architect Henri Jova, the bank branch is one of Atlanta's most acclaimed buildings from the 1960s (seen here in its heyday). It has served as a number of restaurants since a successful restoration in 2005. Since 2014, the APC had been considering moving the building to its "Formerly Endangered" list. However, in 2016 the building's owners indicated their intention to demolish the building and replace it with a 5-story self-storage facility. (Special to the AJC)

FIRE STATION #11 (30 North Avenue). Significance: One of the city's oldest fire stations, placed in service in 1907. Restored, adapted and currently in use as a restaurant. The APC is considering moving the building to its "Formerly Endangered" list. Read more here. (PETE CORSON / pcorson@ajc.com)

181 RALPH DAVID ABERNATHY BOULEVARD. Significance: First built in 1898 as St. John's Methodist Church in Mechanicsville. The building suffered damage from a 2014 wreck that destabilized one of its towers, but was repaired by its owner and continues to be used as an events space and bar. The APC is considering moving the building to its "Formerly Endangered" list. Read more here. (PETE CORSON / pcorson@ajc.com)

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Which of Atlanta's historic buildings are most at risk of being lost? These buildings represent just a sample from the Atlanta Preservation Center's 2014 list of endangered places (read the full list here). Seen here: The Rufus M. Rose House (537 Peachtree Street NE). Significance: The oldest remaining house on Peachtree Street. In recent years, the building's owner has been rehabilitating the structure and gradually restoring its splendor. Read more here. (Atlanta Preservation Center)

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