Francis Palmer Smith

Francis Palmer Smith (March 27, 1886, in Cincinnati, Ohio – March 5, 1971, in Atlanta, Georgia) was an architect active in Atlanta and elsewhere in the Southeastern United States. He was the director of the Georgia Tech College of Architecture from 1909–1922.

Cox-Carlton Hotel (1925)
Rhodes-Haverty Building (1929)
William-Oliver Building (1930)
Druid Hills Presbyterian Church (1939–40), 458 Ponce de Leon Avenue NE, Virginia-Highland, Atlanta

After working in Cincinnati, Ohio and then Columbus, Georgia, Smith was hired as professor of Georgia Tech's new architecture school in 1908. He transferred the curriculum of the University of Pennsylvania which emphasized Beaux-Arts architecture. He met Robert Smith Pringle and formed a partnership with him in 1922, Pringle and Smith.[1]

Works

As part of Pringle and Smith:[1]

The 1937 Tifton Coca-Cola Bottling Plant is located at 820 Love Avenue (photograph 56). The building is a two-story, brick, commercial Beaux Arts-style building with tile roof, heavy modillions under the cornice, metal factory sash-windows, leaded-glass transoms over plate glass display windows, and decorative cast-concrete door surround. Terra-cotta panels with the trademark "Coca Cola" emblem are located on the fagade and side elevations. Designed by the Atlanta architectural firm Pringle and Smith, the building is an example of "Standardized Coca Cola Bottling Plant, Model 3A." Between 1928 and the late 1940s, Pringle and Smith designed a series of plans for bottling plant franchises for the Coca-Cola Company that were built throughout the southeastern United States.[2]

See, add to: List of Coca-Cola buildings and structures


And other buildings in Miami, Jacksonville, and Sarasota, Florida.

Pringle and Smith developed plans for a grand 750-room hotel on the site of the Hotel Aragon at the southeast corner Peachtree and Ellis streets, but the more modest Collier Building (1932–1970s) was built on the site instead.

After Pringle and Smith was disbanded, Smith's further works included:[1]

See also

References
  1. "Francis Palmer Smith", New Georgia Encyclopedia
  2. Gretchen Brock; Robert A. Ciucevich (December 20, 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Tifton Residential Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved February 19, 2021. With accompanying 95 photos from 2005
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.