#ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION WINDOWS#
It has a flat terraced roof deck, typical of many structures of the modern movement, curved corners, a "prow-like" end and windows on all floors exude horizontal significance. Its exterior is composed of Flemish bond brick, marble and limestone.
The building is typical of the art moderne movement. The building was placed on the 2003 List of Endangered Buildings by the Buildings Worth Saving Committee of the Atlanta Preservation Center. The downtown building has been vacant since 1972. Georgia Power moved to its new location on 241 Ralph McGill Boulevard when the building was finished in 1981. Georgia Power moved into the building in 1955 until 1960, and many Atlantans paid their electricity bills at this downtown location. There was construction or remodeling undertaken the same year. The newspaper subsequently outgrew its building and moved in 1953.
Upon moving in, Editor Ralph McGill expressed his desire that the Constitution's prestige should grow to match its new home. Retail space occupied the building's sloping base level. Cox of the Journal bought the Constitution.Įxpenses for the modern plant included “new presses, steel desks, marble corridors and every mechanical contrivance for publishing a modern newspaper in the shortest possible time.” Additionally, WCON, the Constitution's new radio station, was located on the top floor of the building. The building housed the headquarters of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper during tenure of editor Ralph McGill until its consolidation with the Atlanta Journal only three years later, when James C. The five-story Atlanta Constitution Building was constructed in 1947 and designed by Robert and Company at a cost of $3 million.
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