The Piedmont Hotel was a hotel which took up the block between Peachtree

Peachtree Street

Peachtree Street is the main street of Atlanta. The city grew up around the street, and many of its historical and municipal buildings are or were located along it...

, Luckie, Forsyth and Broad streets. The hotel opened with a gala celebration on January 15, 1903. It was built on the site of the homesteads of Atlanta pioneers William Ezzard

William Ezzard

William E. Ezzard was a Southern United States politician who served as the 11th, 13th and 19th Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, in the 19th century....

 and Dr. James F. Alexander. It was Atlanta's first "New York" or Northern-style hotel. It entertained Presidents Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...

 and Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...

, William Jennings Bryant. It was the favorite hotel of visiting opera stars until the opening of the Georgian Terrace

Georgian Terrace Hotel

The Georgian Terrace Hotel in Midtown Atlanta, part of the Fox Theatre Historic District, was designed by architect William Lee Stoddart in a Beaux-Arts style that was intended to evoke the architecture of Paris. Construction commenced on July 21, 1910, and ended on September 8, 1911, and the hotel...

 in Midtown

Midtown Atlanta

Midtown is the second largest financial district in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, situated between the commercial and financial districts of Downtown and SoNo to the south and the affluent residential and commercial district of Buckhead to the north...

.

The architect was Willis F. Denny

Willis F. Denny

Willis F. Denny was an architect active in Atlanta, Georgia around the turn of the twentieth century. He was the architect of Rhodes Hall and the Kriegshaber House , bothlisted on the National Register, as well as the demolished Piedmont Hotel .-External links:*...

, who had also designed Rhodes Hall

Rhodes Hall

Rhodes Memorial Hall, commonly known as Rhodes Hall, is a historic house museum located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was built as the home of furniture magnate Amos Giles Rhodes, proprietor of Atlanta-based Rhodes Furniture...

 and the Kriegshaber House

Kriegshaber House

The Kriegshaber House, now the Wrecking Ball Brewpub, is a historic Beaux Arts mansion on 292 Moreland Avenue NW in Inman Park, Atlanta. It was built around 1900...

 on Moreland Avenue, now the Wrecking Ball Brewpub. The hotel was renovated in 1928-9 demolished in 1963. Most of the site is now occupied by the Equitable Building

Equitable Building (Atlanta)

The Equitable Building is a 35-story, 453 foot tall office building in Atlanta, Georgia, located at 100 Peachtree Street in the Fairlie-Poplar neighborhood in downtown Atlanta...

at 100 Peachtree St. NE and a plaza in front of the building.

External links

• Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 1880s-1930s, p.439 - text of newspaper article describing the Piedmont's opening, including full menu served
• Piedmont Hotel under construction (photo)