The Glenn Building, 110 Marietta Street NW
The ten story Glenn Building originally served as an office building when it was completed in 1923. The building was named after John Thomas Glenn, who served as mayor of Atlanta from 1889 - 91. By the early 1990's the building was vacant and targeted for destruction by Turner Broadcasting, which wanted to build a combination office tower & parking deck on this site at the corner of Marietta Street and Spring Street.
Fortunately, those plans never materialized and after a $21 million renovation, the110 room Glenn Hotel opened in February, 2006.
The hotel also features a hipper-than-thou restaurant (B.E.D.) where patrons can eat dinner in a sleeping position, a completely goofball concept if you ask me. According to the New York Times' review, "like many boutique hotels, its sophistication feels like a dousing of hair gel and cologne, and its sex appeal like a deluge of Reddi-wip, leaving little room for much Southern charm."
The cars visible in the postcard are pointed northbound. Today, Spring Street remains a one-way northbound street at this intersection and for about another mile, at which point it takes an unnatural one block bend to the east to merge with West Peachtree and continue northbound.
Weird fact: a couple of miles farther north, where Spring Street meets Peachtree Street, Spring Street is a one-way southbound street.
The Glenn Hotel, 110 Marietta Street NW
Date: 01/10/07
