State of Georgia Building | |
Alternate Names: | 2 Peachtree Street |
Former Names: | First National Bank Building Wachovia Bank of Georgia Building |
Location: | 2 Peachtree Street Atlanta, Georgia United States |
Coordinates: | 33.7542°N -84.3906°W |
Completion Date: | 1966 |
Building Type: | Government offices |
Antenna Spire: | 182.6m (599.1feet) |
Roof: | 169.47m (556feet) |
Floor Count: | 44 |
Architect: | Cecil Alexander[1] FABRAP Emery Roth & Sons |
Owner: | State of Georgia |
References: | [2] |
The State of Georgia Building (also known as 2 Peachtree Street and previously known as the First National Bank Building[3]) is a 44-story, 566feet skyscraper located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Built in 1966, the building was the tallest building in the Southeast at the time.[2] It was Atlanta's tallest until 1976, when the Westin Peachtree Plaza surpassed it.[2] 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.[4] 2 Peachtree Street was originally constructed as the new headquarters building for First National Bank of Atlanta, also known as First Atlanta,[5] 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.[6] First Atlanta was acquired by the holding company for Wachovia Bank in 1985, but continued to operate under its own charter until 1991.[5] 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.[2]