At 630 Travis Street, hip-hop heads have been winding around the block to get into the new museum. Google Maps “This isn’t your typical museum.” That’s Trap Music Museum general manager ...

Southeast of downtown, Blackhall’s studio space today rivals Tyler Perry Studios for the title of second largest in Georgia. Intrenchment Creek is pictured at bottom right. Photo courtesy of ...

Twenty years ago tonight, Atlanta officially welcomed the world to the Centennial Olympic Games with the Opening Ceremonies. It was kind of a big deal. While a lot can be said (both good and bad ...

Editor’s note: The author, Adam C. Johnson, is the Midtown Neighbors’ Association’s History Committee Chairman. He previously chronicled how a civic sore spot decried as the “Pit of ...

Two preteen boys pushed bicycles through the streets of English Avenue one recent rainy, chilly afternoon. They paid little attention to the boarded-up yellow house beside them. It wasn’t much ...

Atlanta’s skyline, stretching from downtown to Perimeter Center (and even through the Ga. Highway 400 corridor to Alpharetta, sort of), has been a long time in the making. A visual history ...

For years, downtown Atlanta has had the reputation of being the city's buttoned-up historic business center and tourist hub, with little new development bringing life to the area. But now ...

“It’s a very important building in the history of the State of Georgia.” Photos courtesy of Robert A.M. Stern Architects and Stevens & Wilkinson It looks like something you might expect to ...

When I arrived in Atlanta for my first job out of college in the spring of 1984, I didn’t realize that my workplace would be a formidable structure referred to by some as “Tara on Techwood ...

Back in 2009, following a minor traffic accident, Atlanta police directed me to a place called City Hall East in the city’s Old Fourth Ward to retrieve the paperwork my insurance company required.

The futuristic canopy over the 422 Ferst Drive building on Tech’s campus is an array of solar panels with water-catching components. It’s not every day the president of a major university ...

Several notable landmarks stand near the corner of Mayson Avenue and Hardee Street in the historically African-American community of Edgewood on Atlanta’s eastside, but only one of them, The ...