Hops at the History Center: Architect Willis F. Denny

Willis F. Denny, Architect of Rhodes Hall and Kriegshaber House 

Willis Denny had a remarkably short professional career as an architect yet in just nine years he designed some of Atlanta’s most notable buildings of the turn of the twentieth century. He opened his office in 1897, and died of pneumonia at the age of thirty-one in 1905. His Atlanta public buildings were typically styled with the rusticated stonework popularized by Henry Hobson Richardson and are thus among Atlanta’s most monumental landmarks of the period. He also demonstrated competence in classical forms, reflecting the Beaux-Arts influences of his day. In his continuing series of lectures on Atlanta architects, Robert M. Craig will review the career of Willis Denny, illustrating his architecture in Atlanta and elsewhere in the context of his training at the architecture school at Cornell. The illustrated talk is free and open to the public.

Details:

December 3 2024, 6:30-7:30 PM

DeKalb History Center

Second Floor

101 E. Court Square

Decatur, GA 30030

FREE

Drink Tickets Available