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The State of Georgia Building (also known as 2 Peachtree Street and previously known as the First National Bank Building[6]) is a 44-story, 566 feet (173 m) skyscraper located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Built in 1966, the building was the tallest building in the Southeast at the time.[2] It was Atlanta's tallest until 1976, when the Westin Peachtree Plaza surpassed it.[2] It was built on the site of the Peachtree Arcade, A. Ten Eyck Brown's 1917 covered shopping arcade which connected Peachtree and Broad streets.[7] 2 Peachtree Street was originally constructed as the new headquarters building for First National Bank of Atlanta, also known as First Atlanta,[8] replacing its older (1905) headquarters building next door (the lower half of which remains today as Georgia State's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies). It was designed by a partnership of Atlanta architectural firm FABRAP and New York firm Emery Roth & Sons.[9] First Atlanta was acquired by the holding company for Wachovia Bank in 1985, but continued to operate under its own charter until 1991.[8] In 1991, under new liberalized banking laws, First Atlanta was merged into the charter of Wachovia Bank of Georgia. Shortly thereafter, Wachovia moved its Georgia offices to 191 Peachtree and 2 Peachtree Street was acquired by the state of Georgia for government offices.[2]

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  1. ^ "VIS 114.17.03 First National Bank Building", Atlanta History Center Archived 2015-06-05 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b c d "Emporis building ID 121135". Emporis. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015.
  3. ^ State of Georgia Building at Glass Steel and Stone (archived)
  4. ^ "State of Georgia Building". SkyscraperPage.
  5. ^ State of Georgia Building at Structurae
  6. ^ Hills, Thomas D. (August 27, 2019) [October 20, 2003]. "First National Bank of Atlanta". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on June 8, 2022. Retrieved August 5, 2022.
  7. ^ Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 1940s-1970s, Harold H. Martin, p.394
  8. ^ a b Hills, Thomas D. (August 30, 2006). "First National Bank of Atlanta/Wachovia Bank, N.A.". The New Georgia Encyclopedia. Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press. Retrieved March 30, 2008.
  9. ^ Craig, Robert M. (December 14, 2007). "FABRAP: Finch, Alexander, Barnes, Rothschild, and Pascal". The New Georgia Encyclopedia. Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press. Retrieved March 30, 2008.

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