A. French Textile Building specifications, 28 October 1898.

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A. French Textile Building specifications, 28 October 1898.

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The A. French Textile Building Specifications contains detailed information regarding materials and labor to be used during the 1898-1899 construction of the A. French Textile Building on the Georgia Tech campus.

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Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Tech

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Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Tech

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Named in honor of the chief donor, Aaron French, the original textile building at the Georgia School of Technology was designed by the Massachusetts architectural firm of Lockwood Greene. It was considered a very modern cotton mill, embodying "the very latest ideas of mill construction." The building was home to Textile Engineering at Georgia Tech until the completion of the Harrison Hightower Textile Engineering Building in 1949. From the description of A. French Textile Building sp...

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The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech or Tech, was founded on October 13, 1885 as the Georgia School of Technology. The creation of the educational institution was part of the plans of Georgia leadership to reconstruct and revitalize the state's economy following the Civil War. Eighty-four candidates took the first entrance examination on October 3, 1888 and the school formally opened on October 5, 1888. Over the next several decades the school evolved from tr...