The Atlanta Preservation Center has sent out a notification about another endangered historic property in the city -- the elegant 1930 Industrial Life and Health Insurance/Life of Georgia building on West Peachtree at the corner of Linden. The APC in publicly expressing concern over Emory/Crawford Long's current plan to demolish the Industrial Life and Health Insurance Company/Life of Georgia building by signing an online petition (see link below).
Designed by Frazier & Bodine of Atlanta, the Industrial Life and Health Insurance building is clad in Indiana limestone, decorated with Beaux Arts garlands and pilasters, and has a lobby made with restrained decorations of Italian marble (click on link below or copy and paste into your web browser to access pictures of the building). Charles E. Frazier also designed The Briarcliff, home of Asa G. Candler, Jr.
Home of the national headquarters for the Industrial Life and Health Insurance Company (later Life of Georgia) from 1930 until 1968 , during the 70s and 80s it was Doctor's Memorial Hospital, and, at the later part of the last century, Emory Clinic.


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