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Francis Palmer Smith (March 27, 1886, in
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, Ohio – March 5, 1971, in
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, Georgia) was an architect active in Atlanta and elsewhere in the Southeastern United States. He was the director of the
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College of Architecture from 1909–1922. After working in
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, Ohio and then
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, Smith was hired as professor of
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's new architecture school in 1908. He transferred the curriculum of the
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which emphasized
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. He met Robert Smith Pringle and formed a partnership with him in 1922, Pringle and Smith."Francis Palmer Smith", ''New Georgia Encyclopedia''
/ref> Robert Smith Pringle (1883-1937) was born in
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, and was educated in
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. He opened an office on his own in Columbia in 1902, and in 1917 moved to Atlanta, practicing on his own again until joining as a partner with Smith. Smith was the principal designer of the firm. Pringle died in 1937. Francis Palmer Smith continued then in independent practice until 1960, when his son, Henry Howard Smith joined in partnership, and eventually retired in 1970. F. P. Smith died in Atlanta in 1971. With


Works

As part of Pringle and Smith: *Numerous residences in the elite
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and
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neighborhoods of Atlanta * Grace United Methodist Church at 458
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just west of
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(1922–23) * Cox-Carlton Hotel (1925) *Norris Building (1926) *
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(1926) * Rhodes-Haverty Building (1929) * William-Oliver Building (1930) * W. W. Orr Building (1930) *Standardized bottling plants for
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throughout the southeastern U.S., including the 1937 Tifton Coca-Cola Bottling Plant at 820 Love Avenue in
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, a two-story, brick, commercial Beaux Arts-style building in the
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, an example of "Standardized Coca Cola Bottling Plant, Model 3A." With And other buildings in Miami,
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, and
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, Florida. Pringle and Smith developed plans for a grand 750-room hotel on the site of the Hotel Aragon at the southeast corner Peachtree and Ellis streets, but the more modest Collier Building (1932–1970s) was built on the site instead. After Pringle and Smith was disbanded, Smith's further works included: *Additional bottling plants in the Southeast *Smaller houses in the Atlanta and
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suburbs * Druid Hills Presbyterian Church in Virginia-Highland,
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* Episcopal Cathedral of Saint Philip on Peachtree Road at " Jesus Junction" in Buckhead (and all of its supporting structures).


See also

*
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References


External links


''The Architecture of Francis Palmer Smith, Atlanta's Scholar-Architect'', Robert M. Craig"Francis Palmer Smith", ''New Georgia Encyclopedia''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Francis Palmer Architects from Cincinnati Beaux-Arts architecture in Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia Tech faculty Coca-Cola buildings and structures Architects from Atlanta 1886 births 1971 deaths