TheHotel Aragon was a six-story, 125-room hotel at 169Peachtree Street NE, at the southeast corner of Ellis Street inAtlanta, in what is today thePeachtree Center area ofdowntown. It was a major addition to the city's hotel capacity at its completion in 1892,[1] cost $250,000,[2] and was built and owned byGeorge Washington Collier.[3] It was the only major hotel in the city not adjacent toUnion Station. A 1902 guidebook describes the Aragon as one of three first-class hotels in the city, together with theKimball House and theMajestic Hotel.[2]
In the late 1920s a project was started to raze the Aragon in order to build aModernist 750-room hotel for theDinkler Hotel Company. The plans by architectFrancis Palmer Smith of firm Pringle & Smith showed "a proud monument of spiritedDeco design, a Modernistic setback block rising twenty floors to a central tower". The project stalled.[4] Instead, the hotel was razed to make way for the more modest Collier Building (1932), though still with Art Deco ornamentation. That building was in turn razed in the 1970s. The site is now occupied by an entrance to theMARTAPeachtree Center station and part of theGeorgia Pacific Center.[5][6]
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