Bona Allen Office Building, Office building in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States
The Bona Allen Building is a nine-story office building in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, built in 1917 and designed by architect John F. Downing. It later became known as the Turner Building.
Built in 1917, the nine-story Bona Allen Building was designed by architect John F. Downing for leather industrialist Bona Allen. It later became known as the Turner Building. The sources record no police headquarters use; the building stands in downtown Atlanta, Georgia.
The building's name recalls Bona Allen, the leather industrialist whose company commissioned it in 1917; it was later renamed the Turner Building. Its nine stories made it a tall presence in downtown Atlanta's early-20th-century commercial district, and the renaming marks the change of ownership and use over the decades.
The building stands in downtown Atlanta at the corner of Spring Street and Ted Turner Drive, a few blocks from the Peachtree Center and Five Points MARTA stations. The ground floor is not a public attraction, so the 1917 facade and nine-story massing are best seen from the sidewalk on the surrounding streets.
The building was designed by architect John F. Downing and later became known as the Turner Building, a name tied to media mogul Ted Turner, after whom the adjacent street is also named.
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