National Register of Historic Places
Staff Row and Old Post Area (Boundary Increase)
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
The record
- Listed
- September 6, 2013
- Type
- Historic district
- Address
- 1777 Hardee Ave., Atlanta
- County
- Fulton
- State
- Georgia
- Contributing resources
- 70 buildings, 3 sites
- Coordinates
- 33.71028, -84.43332
- Reference number
- 13000662
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The story
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Staff Row and Old Post Area (Boundary Increase) is a historic district at 1777 Hardee Ave. in Atlanta, Fulton County, listed in the National Register in 2013. It adds 70 contributing buildings and 3 contributing sites on the former Fort McPherson army post, built between 1887 and 1959, in styles that include Georgian Colonial Revival, Romanesque Revival, Queen Anne, Italianate and Craftsman.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with national-level significance in architecture and military history at Fort McPherson. Its period of significance runs from 1887 to 1959, matching the district's earliest and latest dated buildings.
Physical character
The district is laid out around a quadrangle, with brick foundations and walls, roofs of hand-seamed metal and slate, and artesian wells on the grounds. Several buildings changed use over the years: the old guardhouse became the Central Telephone Exchange in 1949, and a 1938 remodeling created Transient Officers' Quarters.
Historical context
The Army built a ten-company post southwest of Atlanta in 1867, naming it McPherson Barracks for Major General James Birdseye McPherson, and troops left in 1881. The government bought 140.09 acres in 1885, and the post's first troops arrived in 1889, when it was officially named Fort McPherson. It became a general hospital in 1898, held more than 1,400 German prisoners of war in 1918, and was made headquarters of the Third US Army in 1947.