Techwood Homes (Atlanta, Ga.)
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Atlanta Real Estate Board photographs and plat maps
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS431
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographic prints, plat maps, and building plans of properties in Atlanta and Fulton County created for real estate business purposes. Most photographs depict residential and commercial buildings that were torn down to make way for two public housing projects, Techwood Homes and University Homes in 1934. Highlights include appraisal photographs and supporting documents for the Grant Building, the J.M. High Estate, and the Atlanta King Plow Company building.
Dates:
1922-1935, undated
Harry J. Baldwin landscape architectural drawings
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS188
Scope and Content
The collection includes drawings that document Baldwin's landscape architecture career from university course work in 1947 through projects executed in 2003. The projects include country clubs, hospitals, medical facilities, marinas, multi-family residential, parks, public housing, religious, schools, single-family residential, urban development and urban renewal. Projects of special interest to Atlanta and the Southeast include Atlanta Athletic Country Club, Falcon Training Center, MARTA...
Dates:
1947-2003, undated
Harry J. Baldwin papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS999
Scope and Content
The collection includes files that document Baldwin's landscape architecture career. The Project Records contain correspondence and other materials related to projects completed by Baldwin and Associates and show Baldwin's collaboration with such practitioners as African American architect Leon G. Allain and female landscape architect Edith Harrison Henderson. The Professional Papers contain Baldwin's coursework at the University of Georgia, professional correspondence, registration...
Dates:
1947-2001, undated
Roy LeCraw papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS504
Scope and Content
This collection consists of materials removed from a group of scrapbooks and includes pamphlets, programs, invitations, political ephemera, periodicals, posters, advertisements, and some correspondence.
Dates:
1907-1973; Majority of material found within 1929 - 1949
Samuel A. Hider photographs and posters
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS361
Scope and Content
This collection consists of images of Techwood Home's 50th anniversary celebration and Atlanta Housing Authority's 50th anniversary. Included are photographs of Hider with Atlanta political leaders Mayor Maynard Jackson, Julian Bond, and Governor Joe Frank Harris. Other images include S. Truett Cathy, city council president Marvin Arrington, and Mayor Bill Campbell. Of special interest are posters from both anniversary celebrations, one of which includes a schedule of a week of activities...
Dates:
1986-1988
Stevens & Wilkinson, Architects, Engineers visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS375
Scope and Content
This collection contains images and architectural drawings of buildings designed or renovated by Stevens & Wilkinson, Architects, Engineers, and the earlier iteration of the firm, Burge and Stevens. Also included are drawings from other firms collected by Stevens & Wilkinson, most notably Abreu & Robeson, Inc. Of special note are photographs and drawings of the Piedmont Driving Club, Techwood Homes, Georgia Baptist Hospital and the William-Oliver building. Also included are...
Dates:
approximately 1919-2005, undated
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- Housing -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Land use -- Planning 2
- Landscape architects -- Georgia -- Atlanta. 2
- Landscape architecture -- Florida 2
- Landscape architecture -- Georgia 2
- Landscape architecture -- Southern States 2
- Landscape design -- Southern States 2
- Parks -- Georgia -- DeKalb County 2
- Public housing -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- African American businesspeople -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- African American civic leaders -- Georgia 1
- African Americans -- Segregation 1
- Apartments -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Architects -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Architecture, Domestic -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Atlanta (Ga.) 1
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Politics and government 1
- Atlanta (Ga.). Mayor (1941-1942 : LeCraw) 1
- Brookhaven (Ga.) 1
- Buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Businessmen -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Carrollton (Ga.) 1
- Church buildings -- Georgia 1
- Church buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Commercial buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Construction -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Department stores -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Eastman (Ga.) 1
- Elementary school facilities -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Fort Benning (Ga.) 1
- Georgia -- Politics and government 1
- Government facilities -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Governors -- Georgia 1
- High schools -- Georgia 1
- Historic buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Hospitals -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Land use -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Lawshe Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Lovejoy Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Low-income housing -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Mayors -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Mayors -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Biography 1
- Milledgeville (Ga.) 1
- North Avenue (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Public libraries -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Real estate business -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Real estate development -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Segregation -- Georgia 1
- Segregation in education -- Georgia 1
- Summerhill (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Techwood Drive (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Urban landscape architecture -- Georgia -- Atlanta. 1
- Vienna (Ga.) 1 + ∧ less
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