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[caption id="attachment_42119" align="alignright" width="396" caption="Collapsed building at 6 Ivy Street (Peachtree Center) with the Hurt Building across the street. (LBGPNS6-034a)"][/caption] In 1949, the Atlanta Division…

Continue reading Moment in GSU History: “Building Jarred,” 1949

[caption id="attachment_41201" align="alignleft" width="639" caption="Murphy Building, 18 Auburn Ave, 1950s; Same view, 2013"][/caption] Director George Sparks' earliest memory of what is now Georgia State University…

Continue reading Photo of Overlooked GSU Landmark Rediscovered

[caption id="attachment_32519" align="alignleft" width="375" caption="Peachtree Arcade (Peachtree St. at Wall St.), 1957"][/caption] In 1917, at the beginning of U.S. involvement in World War I, the…

Continue reading Bazaar Education: Night School in the Peachtree Arcade

[caption id="attachment_31673" align="alignleft" width="373" caption="Walton Building (Walton Street, NW at Cone Street), 1973"][/caption] The Georgia School of Technology's Evening School of Commerce (now Georgia State…

Continue reading Blank Slate: GSU’s First Downtown Location

[caption id="attachment_31553" align="alignleft" width="435" caption="Lyman Hall Chemistry Laboratory, Georgia School of Technology, ca. 1913. Photograph courtesy of the Georgia Tech Archives"][/caption]  In 1913, the Georgia…

Continue reading Good Chemistry: GSU’s First Location