Walter T. Downing

Healey Building

Walter T. Downing (1865-1918) was an American architect in Atlanta, Georgia.[1] Several of his works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[2] Walter T. Downing was father of John F. Downing, who was also an architect and who continued his father's firm.

Work

  • Capt. Edward Gay House (1896), aka Training and Counseling Center at Saint Luke's, 98 Currier Street NE, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Atlanta Women's Club (1898), aka Wimbish House, 1150 Peachtree St., NE, Atlanta, Georgia (Downing, Walter T.), NRHP-listed[2]
  • Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (1897-1898), 335 Ivy St., NE, Atlanta, Georgia (Downing, Walter T.), NRHP-listed[2]
  • Dr. James Dodson House (1915–18), Druid Hills, Georgia[1][3]
  • Eiseman Clothing Company store (1901–02), Atlanta, Georgia[1]
  • Frank S. Ellis House (1910–14), 1 Peachtree Circle, Ansley Park neighborhood, Atlanta, Georgia[1]
  • First Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, Georgia[1]
  • John Grant House (1921), now the Cherokee Town Club[1]
  • Healey Building (1913), 57 Forsyth St., Atlanta, Georgia (Morgan & Dillon; Downing, Walter T.), NRHP-listed[2]
  • Sam Jones Memorial United Methodist Church, 100 W. Church St. Cartersville, Georgia (Downing, Walter T.), NRHP-listed[2]
  • Lupton Hall (1920), Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia (with Morgan and Dillon)[1][4]
  • William P. Nicolson House, 821 Piedmont Ave., Atlanta, Georgia (Downing, Walter T.), NRHP-listed[2]
  • The Pines, (1896) SE corner of 5th St. and Lapsley Ave. Anniston, Alabama (Downing, Walter T.), NRHP-listed[2]
  • Swann Dormitory and the Electrical Engineering (Savant) Building (both 1901), Georgia School of Technology (later Georgia Institute of Technology)[1]
  • United Methodist Church, Atlanta, Georgia[1]
  • Robert H. Brown Residence, 26 Ponce de Leon Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia, by Walter T. Downing (directly behind Georgian Terrace before Juniper Street)
  • Charles Lincoln Gately Residence, 960 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia, by Walter T. Downing (SW corner of Peachtree & 14th Street)
  • Dr. William Perrin Nicolson Residence, 689 Piedmont Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia by Walter T. Downing (SE corner of Piedmont & Sixth Street)
  • Judge Henry B. Tompkins, 760 Peachtree Street, Atlanta. NW corner of 8th Street & Peachtree.
  • Hudson Moore Residence, 2610 Peachtree Road, Atlanta, Georgia. (The house faced Peachtree Way in Buckhead, property now occupied by Park Place Condominiums)
  • Joseph K. Orr, 933 Peachtree Street, Atlanta Georgia (home stood on the SE corner of Peachtree & 14th Street)
  • Edward T. Brown Residence 968 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia Walter T. Downing (home was directly across the street from Colony Square Tower #2)
  • Wilmer L. Moore Residence 964 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia. (home stood on NW corner of Peachtree & 14th Street, adjacent to Edward T. Brown home)
  • Hugh Richardson Residence, 400 West Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia. (home stood on NW corner of West Peachtree & 5th Street, directly across from Biltmore Hotel)
  • Packard Garage, 541 Peachtree Street, NE corner of Peachtree Street & North Avenue.
  • Edwin Rembert Dubose Residence, 1695 Peachtree Road, Atlanta, Georgia, Architects Smith & Downing. The home still stands near the intersection of Peachtree Road & Collier Road (behind a commercial building in the original location now known as 1919 Peachtree Road)
  • Charles E. Boynton Residence, 272 Rawson Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "W.T. Downing (1865-1918)". New Georgia Encyclopedia.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  3. ^ Craig, Robert Michael (2012-01-01). The Architecture of Francis Palmer Smith, Atlanta's Scholar-architect. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820328980.
  4. ^ "Lupton Hall, Oglethorpe University | New Georgia Encyclopedia". www.georgiaencyclopedia.org. Retrieved 2016-04-11.