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Georgian Terrace Hotel

Restored Landmark Hotel with classically style building featuring marble floors, vaulted ceilings & Palladian & French windows.

Hotel Address: 659 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30308

The Georgian Terrace Hotel was built in 1910 and first opened to the public on October 2, 1911. A multitude of 5,000 enthusiastic Atlantans attended the hotel’s opening day festivities and it immediately became known as one of the finest hotels in the Atlanta hotel list. Built with butter-colored brick in the French Renaissance style, the ten-story and three hundred guest room building was designed by New York architect William L. Stoddart. The hotel’s design featured many outstanding and elegant architectural details. The turreted corners, floor-to-ceiling Palladian-styled windows, and wide wrap-around columned terraces, along with crystal chandeliers, white marble columns, elliptical staircases and Italian tiled floors within, brought an elegance unknown at that time in Atlanta. The gracefully curving building, designed to conform to the city’s early trolley rail lines, which ran along Peachtree Street and Ponce de Leon Avenue, was instantly dubbed Atlanta’s “Paris hotel”. The hotel’s public spaces became popular gathering places for wealthy Atlantans, and the hotel emerged as a symbol of the resurrection of the Southern capital from its scorched Civil War ruins.

In 1989, Atlanta developer E.F. Howington teamed with Japanese design firm Sato Kogyo to restore the hotel to its original grandeur. A design was created to restore this cheap Atlanta hotels member into a modern luxury apartment building. The original structure was to be refurbished and a new 19-story wing would be added. The restoration work took 2 years to complete as many of the elegant fixtures that had been carted off during the building’s dark years had to be recovered or replicated. Dropped ceilings that had been added in the 1940’s were removed, revealing a stunning stained glass ceiling in the Ponce de Leon entrance foyer. In 1997, new owners decided that The Georgian Terrace is to be returned to its former glory as Atlanta’s “Grande Dame” of hotels and it was converted into an all-suite luxury hotel. In late 1999, the hotel was sold to Denver-based Amstar Corporation and the Atlanta-based Camberley Hotel Company was selected to manage the 326-room property. In mid 2000, the hotel embarked on a $10-million restoration campaign. A new state-of-the art conference center, expanded atrium lobby, fine dining restaurant, lounge, and refurbished ballrooms are part of the renovation plans.

Today, this “Grand Dame” of Atlanta hotels combines luxury accommodations with leading edge conference technology. Fully restored to its original grandeur in 2001, the hotel features 319 elegant suites, upscale leisure amenities, exceptional restaurants, and more than 16,000 square feet of meeting space. With its rich history and central location, the hotel is the unparalleled site for rehearsal dinners, wedding receptions, brunches, luncheons, vacation travel, group events and business meetings. The Georgian Terrace also offers full service catering with complete banquet staffing to assist you with developing a distinctive menu for your occasion and to ensure that your event is a success. So whether it’s a family reunion or the wedding of your dreams, we make it happen effortlessly and in style.