Francis Palmer Smith

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

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.

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]

• Numerous residences in the elite Buckhead and Druid Hills neighborhoods of Atlanta
• Grace United Methodist Church at 458 Ponce de Leon Avenue just west of Boulevard (1922–3)
• Cox-Carlton Hotel (1925)
• Norris Building (1926)
• Lynch Building (1926)
• Rhodes-Haverty Building (1929)
• William-Oliver Building (1930)
• W. W. Orr Building (1930)
• Standardized bottling plants for Coca-Cola, including one in Tifton Residential Historic District:

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 , 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]

• Additional bottling plants in the Southeast
• Smaller houses in the Atlanta and Chattanooga suburbs
• Druid Hills Presbyterian Church in Virginia-Highland, Atlanta
• Episcopal Cathedral of Saint Philip on Peachtree Road at "Jesus Junction" in Buckhead

See also[]

• List of Coca-Cola buildings and structures

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Buildings by Francis Palmer Smith.

• The Architecture of Francis Palmer Smith, Atlanta's Scholar-Architect, Robert M. Craig
• "Francis Palmer Smith", New Georgia Encyclopedia