The Hotel Aragon was a six-story, 125-room hotel at 169

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NE, at the southeast corner of Ellis Street in

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, in what is today the

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area of downtown. It was a major addition to the city's hotel capacity at its completion in 1892, cost $250,000,''Atlanta and Its Builders: A Comprehensive History of the Gate City, Volume 2'', Thomas H. Martin, pp. 106 and 472-3
/ref> and was built and owned by George Washington Collier. It was the only major hotel in the city not adjacent to

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. A 1902 guidebook describes the Aragon as one of three first-class hotels in the city, together with the Kimball House and the Majestic Hotel. In the late 1920s a project was started to raze the Aragon in order to build a

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750-room hotel for the Dinkler Hotel Company. The plans by architect Francis Palmer Smith of firm Pringle & Smith showed "a proud monument of spirited

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design, a Modernistic setback block rising twenty floors to a central tower". The project stalled. Instead, the hotel was razed to make way for the more modest Collier Building (1932), though still with Art Deco ornamentation. That building was in turn razed in the 1970s. The site is now occupied by an entrance to the MARTA Peachtree Center station and part of the Georgia Pacific Center.''Peachtree Street, Atlanta'', William Williford, p.138
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Aragon Demolished hotels in Atlanta Art Deco hotels Hotel buildings completed in 1892 Hotels established in 1892 Buildings and structures demolished in 1930

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