The Carnegie Building is a historic building located at 141 Carnegie Way in

downtown Atlanta Downtown Atlanta is the central business district of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The larger of the city's two other commercial districts ( Midtown and Buckhead), it is the location of many corporate and regional headquarters; city, county, ...

, Georgia, United States. Built in 1925 as the Wynne-Claughton Building, the 12-story building was designed by architect

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. It was designated an Atlanta Historic Building in 1990 and was added to the

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in 2012.

History

The building, originally known as the Wynne-Claughton Building, was constructed in the 1920s to serve as the headquarters for the Wynne-Claughton Company, an Atlanta-based real estate firm created by Morgan T. Wynne and Edward N. Claughton in 1923. Construction of the building started on July 3, 1924 and was completed on April 11, 1925. The building was designed by

, a prominent Atlanta-based architect who designed several now-historic buildings in Atlanta, including

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and the Medical Arts Building. After the completion of the building, Preacher relocated his architectural firm into one of the building's offices. Other early tenants in the building included the

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and the Georgia chapter of the

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. In 1929, the building was renamed the Mortgage Guaranty Building. In 1963, the building was renamed to its current name: the Carnegie Building. This may have been in reference to the Carnegie Library in Atlanta, which was located directly across the street from the building. The building is located on a triangular-shaped tract of land bordered by

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, Carnegie Way, and Ellis Street, which it shares with the

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and the Ellis Hotel (formerly known as the Winecoff Hotel). During the 1946

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, some people trapped in the nearby Winecoff Hotel attempted to jump across the 10-foot alley separating the two buildings, with many falling to their deaths as a result. Some people managed to escape the fire by climbing across makeshift bridges between the two buildings. In 1992, the building was purchased and renovated by a development company for $2.5 million. In 2006,

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, an Atlanta-based law firm and major tenant in the building, left, causing the building to reach over 60% vacancy. Following this, the owners of the Carnegie repurposed the building for use as a

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. On May 1, 2010,

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opened a location in the Carnegie. Today, the building houses a

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