Healey Building, Gothic Revival skyscraper in Fairlie-Poplar District, Atlanta, US
The Healey Building is a 16-story Gothic Revival tower on Forsyth Street NW in Atlanta's Fairlie-Poplar District. The ground floor holds retail spaces, while the upper floors are used as residential units.
Built between 1913 and 1914 to designs by Morgan & Dillon with Walter T. Downing, the Healey Building was Atlanta's last major skyscraper of the pre-World War I boom. It was planned as two facing towers joined by an atrium across a full city block. The east tower on Broad Street was never built, halted by the war and by the 1920 death of owner William T. Healey.
The building's name comes from developer Thomas G. Healey, whose son William T. Healey owned it until his death in 1920. The Healey family retained the property until 1972. Today the lower floors hold galleries, shops and restaurants, while the upper floors have been condominiums since 2001.
The building is easy to reach on foot from several nearby transit stops in downtown Atlanta. The ground-floor shops are open to the public, but the residential floors above are private and cannot be visited.
The east tower along Broad Street was abandoned after World War I and the 1920 death of owner William T. Healey, son of developer Thomas G. Healey. Steelworker Billy Newburn fell to his death during construction in 1913.
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