Crum & Forster Building, Renaissance office building in Midtown Atlanta, United States.
The Crum & Forster Building is a three-story structure at 771 Spring Street in Midtown Atlanta, with a Renaissance-style facade of columns and arches. Only part of that facade remains: in September 2013 two-thirds of the building was demolished for a High Performance Computing Center mid-rise.
Built in 1928 as a regional office for the Crum & Forster insurance company, the structure was designed by two Georgia Tech graduates. In 2013, two-thirds of the building were removed to make room for Georgia Tech's High Performance Computing Center.
The building's name comes from the Crum & Forster insurance firm, which opened it in 1928 as its regional office. Its architects, Ed Ivey and Lewis Crook, were Georgia Tech graduates who helped establish the university's architecture program in 1908. Preservationists' campaign led to landmark status in 2009, and part of the facade survives beside the CODA development.
Only part of the facade remains after the September 2013 demolition, so what stands at 771 Spring Street is a fragment facing Tech Square, not a whole building. The site sits beside the CODA development, where a food hall and restaurant were planned as of late 2017. The interior is not open to the public.
Only part of the Crum & Forster Building still stands: in September 2013 the Georgia Tech Foundation demolished two-thirds of it for a High Performance Computing Center, leaving a section of facade. Late-2017 plans called for an 8,000-square-foot restaurant in the remaining portion, beside a 20,000-square-foot food hall in the adjacent CODA development.
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