Welcome to part two of “The Kontz Family Home.” Visit this link to read part one and view the images. The Kontz family was in Atlanta in July 1864 as Sherman’s men approached the city. They remained in their home on Marietta Street through the Battle of Atlanta amidst the constant shelling … [Read more...]
Atlanta’s Lost Landmarks: The Kontz Family Home
There is no possible way to visit Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery and not notice the Kontz family monument. In her book American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning (2014), Kate Sweeney describes the monument as “a seven-foot arch with the name ‘KONTZ’ in heavy block letters above which … [Read more...]
Atlanta’s Lost Landmarks: The 1884 Constitution Building
On October 21, 1883 The Atlanta Constitution reported a force of fifty men were engaged in excavating the old Oliver corner for what would be the new Constitution building. The old Oliver corner was the southeast corner of Alabama and Forsyth which had been the location of J.S. Oliver’s commission … [Read more...]
An Ode to an Atlanta Elevator
Louis “Press Preston Huddleston (1870-1956) began working for The Atlanta Journal as a young man in the 1880s as a printer and moved over to work in The Atlanta Constitution building that sat at the southeast corner of Alabama and Forsyth in 1900 where he was the real estate and industrial news … [Read more...]
