Atlanta And Its Builders, Vol. 2 - A Comprehensive History Of The Gate City Of The South. Thomas H. Martin
1890 the following public buildings have been erected:
Courthouse annex $ 100,000
Fulton county jail 175,000
Carnegie library 120,000
Grand opera house 200,000
Total $ 595,000
FACTORIES AND PLANTS
Among the big factories and plants which have been erected in and near Atlanta in recent years are the following:
The Frank E. Block factory, cost $55,000.
The Charles A. Conklin plant, costing $24,000.
The Atlanta woolen mills plant, cost $175,000.
The George W. Scott cotton mill at Scottdale, $200,000.
The Swift fertilizer plant, cost $350,000.
The Whittier cotton mills, cost $250,000.
The Elizabeth cotton mills, cost $200,000.
The Piedmont cotton mills, cost $100,000.
The Gate City cotton mills, cost $200,000.
And many others of equal size and great importance to the city and county.
THE IMPORTANT BUILDINGS
Table showing all buildings erected since 1895 costing over $10,000:
Austell building $ 315,000
S. A. L. depot 100,000
Wellhouse factory 25,000
Dobbs & Wey building 20,000
Lowndes building 30,000
Boys' High school 41,000
Inman, Smith & Co 55,000
Thornton building, Pryor street 45,000
W. D. Grant store. Central avenue and Hunter street. 10,000
Woodward Lumber Co 35,000
Southern Railway, new shops 25,000
Coco-Cola building 15,000
Kiser building, Marietta street 16,000
Prudential building 325,000
Jackson Hill Baptist church 15,000
Catholic church, Peachtree and Ivy 25,000
Farlinger flats 42,000
Methodist church, Inman Park 10,000
Majestic Hotel 80,000
Atlanta Paper Co 30,000
A. G. Rhodes block 20,000
English-American building 200,000
Leary sale stable. Marietta street 11,000
Maddox store 18,000
Tech dormitory 14,000
Elkin & Cooper sanitarium 20,000
Atlanta Brewing and Ice annex 15,000
Fulton county Tower 175,000
Markham House Block 75,000
On Shoe Co 23,000
Fulton Bag and Cotton mills warehouse 16,300
Courthouse annex 100,000
Atlanta Woolen mills 30,000
Annex to Maddox building 13,100
S. M. Inman, Nelson street and Madison ave. factory 10,000
Bass Dry Goods store 35,000
Addition to Lowndes building 17,000
Marion Hotel annex 18,000
Inman Block, Forsyth street 35,000
Pratt laboratory 18,000
The Fairfax apartment house 12,000
Trunk factory. Trinity avenue 10,000
Textile building 17,000
McCord Grocery Co. warehouse 20,000
Atlanta Stove Works, Irwin & Krog 10,000
Chamberlin-Johnson annex 12,000
Calhoun building 34,000
Atlanta Baptist college 13,000
West End Baptist church 10,000
Atlanta Milling Co 35,000
J. W. Rucker estate, Alabama, near Forsyth 35,000
Spelman seminary dining hall 28,500
Spelman seminary dormitory 28,000
Atlanta Brewing and Ice Co. bottling plant 10,000
Empire building 500,000
Georgia Railroad and Banking Co., addition to depot. 10,000
Spelman seminary and hospital 16,000
Bell street school 12,500
Kontz building, Marietta street 25,000
Carnegie library 120,000
F. E. Block factory 55,000
Atlanta Railway power plant 90,000
Conklin Manufacturing Co 22,000
North Avenue Presbyterian church 26,000
The above figures only show the actual building that has taken place inside the city limits for the past five years. They do not include any of the vast sums that have been expended in the construction of factories and other business buildings outside the city's limits, nor the cost of the many handsome residences that have gone up in the suburbs. For example, on Peachtree street alone, residences have been constructed during the past ten years outside the corporate limits at a cost of over $500,000.
POSTAL RECEIPTS
One of the best indications of Atlanta's growth in the past ten years is the enormous increase in the receipts at the Atlanta post-office.
The postal receipts of a city are recognized as a splendid trade barometer and the value of business of a community may be almost accurately ascertained by calculations based on the postal receipts and the bank clearings.
In the case of Atlanta's post-office, the books of the government show that since 1890 the increase in the postal receipts has more than doubled in the last ten years.
A significant fact in connection with the business of the Atlanta post-office is that it has shown a steady increase for every year since 1870, with the single exception of the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1894, when the general depression which prevailed throughout the United States caused a slight decrease.
Major W. H. Smyth, Atlanta's postmaster, furnishes the following highly interesting statement, showing the increase of business of the Atlanta post-office and the relative rank of the Atlanta office with those of other cities of the country:
"In population, according to the census, Atlanta is the forty-third city in the United States. In postal receipts it is the twenty-eighth, and in postage paid by newspapers and periodicals it is the twenty-first.
"These latter receipts for the year 1900 were $35,692.98. showing 3,569,298 pounds, or over 1,784 tons of newspapers mailed by the Atlanta publishers.
"The average amount of postal receipts per capita for the fiscal year of 1900 in the fifty largest cities of the United States was $2.92; that of Atlanta was $3.55, only Chicago, Boston, Cincinnati. Kansas