Greek Renaissance houses in Athens, Georgia : a brief study of, 1965, March.

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Greek Renaissance houses in Athens, Georgia : a brief study of, 1965, March.

The collection consists of consists of a 45 page paper done for Urban Geography, University of Georgia, March 1965 and includes original illustrations, map, photographs and graphs. The paper was done by James W. Curtis II.

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Curtis, James W

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Athens, Georgia is nicknamed the "Classic City" because many of its buildings are similar to that of classic Greek architecture. Many of the houses built by these antebellum Athenians still survive. For example, Ross Crane, a contractor who built the university's Greek revival-style chapel (1832), constructed a mansion just west of the downtown area; it is now used as a fraternity house. Also on the west side of town, Robert Taylor built a Greek revival-style house with thirteen columns, one for...

University of Georgia. International Student Life Office

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The University of Georgia (UGA) is the largest institution of higher learning in the state of Georgia. Located in Athens, Georgia, approximately 70 miles northeast of Atlanta, it was the first state-chartered university in the United States. In 2005 U.S. News & World Report magazine ranked UGA 19th in its list of the top 50 public universities for a sixth year in a row. UGA also ranks 58th overall (public and private) in the nation. Today, it is the largest university of the University Syste...