Hops at the History Center: Architect Willis F. Denny
December 3, 2024 6:30 PM
Willis F. Denny, Architect of Rhodes Hall and Kriegshaber House
Willis Denny had a remarkably short professional career as an architect yet designed in the span of just nine years 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