Hotel Hospitality - Atlanta
100 Year Anniversary of
Built in 1923 and located at the intersection of Marietta Street and Ted Turner Drive (formerly Spring Street), this site was originally the home of Major Hamilton Goode of the Confederate Army, and one of the few structures that survived Union General Sherman’s burning of Atlanta on his March to the Sea. The property was purchased in 1888 by John Thomas Glenn, son of Luther Glenn, Atlanta’s mayor from 1858 to 1860. John T. Glenn, a lawyer who led Atlanta Steel for years and sat on the board of Coca-Cola, became mayor of Atlanta in 1889, a year after acquiring the property where the Glenn Build-
ing would be built more than three decades later. When he died in 1899, his estate included the land on which the 10-story Glenn Building was to be erected in 1923 and subsequently named after him. Waddy B. Wood, a well-known Washington, D.C. architect, de-
signed the Glenn Building. Considered an excellent example of the Neoclassical Revival style, Wood reinterpreted classical motifs from earlier his-torical styles in the first decades of the 20th century. Featuring a smooth, limestone facing and terra cotta detailing, the Glenn Building’s
