Georgia State University - Rampway Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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x ' , , 1 ' 1938-1946 162 Lnrkib Slreef Building -. 1 X tc Q Purchased in 1945, and in useipresently, this six-story com- bination office and garage building originally contained 187,700 square feet. The sixth floor was extended and a seventh story added later. Of brick and reinforced concrete, the back was constructed in elevenlevels connected with double .patented ramps. An elevator and stairway connected the six main floorsi - - o ' ' To finance the purchase of thepbuilding, Dr. Sparks borrowed 3lS600,000 in unrestricted trust- funds 'from the State Auditor at four per cent, with-the Regents' permission, who also authorized the purchase of the garage office building. To complete the transaction legally they author- ized the organization of three corporations with Dr. Sparks as President of eachg one to liquidate the assets of the garage, ' one to operate the office building, and one to take over the other two corporations. . . The first classroom finished was on theifirst immediate level fspace now occupied, by .Alpha Phif and Zeta Tau-V Alpha Sororitiesj and was occupied ,several weeks before others by a class in Mathematics taught by W.pC. Cantrell. 'x v ' ' A p The old square U-shaped Georgia Baptist Hos- pital, on the corner of Luckie and Techwood, was purchased in 1938 forthe mounting enrollments of day and evening classes, Its fifty rooms, re- modeledrinto classrooms, chemistry- and other lab- oratories, library, assembly room, clinic, penthouse for the Art Department of that day and student recreation areas also used for indoor sports, wiped out alltraces. of the former hospital. Its'court-yard, enclosed with brick wall and lighted grillwork gate, was fused' not only for an approach, to the terrace at the entrance, and fog sunning on warm, clear, days, but furnished the settingxfor formal occasions such as the junior Collegexgraduation, and was used by classes in Physical Education. The W.P.A., courtesy of the late Governor Eugene Talmadge, helped' in the. remodeling processes, and 'student 'labor Vex- cavated the leftpwing ground floor area into afrec- reation center, small refectory, and rifle range added during World War II. p - 7 , AY W ' f ' n , 1 I , 'ri , L- A - - 11.1.-.s it 1.-.1 it - u , ... H , 'rm di. us.. I 1 r x,a5f- -'ff:N'i ' - Nr r 711'--l'1--I-mm in miriam LI Ill U S 24 !Ivy Street Building-1945-present It ,N

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IIHIIUNVIIIIIES ' f C, , V 1951-1958, 223. 1172112011 Sf.-Fifi! Ozwzed Building w ' i Old Sheltering Arms Home Remodeled .for Tech Evening School. 1' 1 f. A C ' i C 1 ,N 3 1 9 During the last years before 1931, overflow, students were housed by Iyan Allen, Sr., in his empty Spring St. Building, and Fred Moore in empty offices in the new Rhodes-Haverty Build- ing, free of charge. ' Y ' , p 1 ,Nine sites. housed the College from its be- ginningpto' the midlcentury mark of its history. The first classes Were held in the basement of the old Chemistry Building- on the Campus of' Georgia School of lTechnology. Rented 'locations at the following sites were the next four quarters. I C 3 191 5-1 917: Three rooms in the AWHIIOYZ Bizildizzg 1917-1921: Four Rooms, Arcade Building 9 1921-1926: Third floor attic of five rooms, 18 Azzbumadzfefzue. i g -9 1926-1931: Sixfroom5,,92Q Forsyth Sly. in - - f Detail of Entrance to 225 Walton, Street Building. ' V ' I Nineteen rooms with a roof garden, coffee shop, laboratories, classrooms, school office and lounge if area was the gift of Robert, R. Johnson, President, Campbell Coal Company, iwho headed the Building C Committee. His ,Atlanta business friends donatedj. materials to remodel the old Sheltering Arms home. 1 i

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e bHGME5e' ' Y A N ' Ag f ' V f Sparks realizes rafdream ' ' - S - 1955-present-33 GilrizerrS'treef'Bz1ildi11g renanled: Sliiurkr Hall 5 A Students, faculty,,and many friends dreamed galongftogether lvvith Dr. ,Sparks in the plan of a completely new building for the College! First, the dreamiwas -envisioned, as a fourteen-story H-shaped building with bell-towerq But the reality, at last put ciithe drawing boards, and-approved by theRegents, became theemulti-purpose College building, onthe corner of Gilmer and Courtland'St.g four storieswhousing an executivesuite, deans' andother offices, a clinic, cafeteria, student lounge, conference, room, bookstorefclassrooms and library.'Called atffirst 35 Gilmer Street Buildi ing, it Was renamed Sparks Hall by action of the Boardlof Regents, June.8, 1960, and a bronze tablet placed near theaentrance lobby speaks ofxthe commemorationri ' C p. 1 ,W g' .. ' ' S' , Dr. Sparks had to' fight toiobtain the land one which to build the 733 Gilmer Street Building. The City had earmarked this property for the Fire Signal Station. Withefmuch maneuvering and diplomacy Dr., Sparks :obtained the' .property for the Regents, and the Fire Signal Station vvaserected across thestreet. p 1 i y - is S ,C , In 1953, Governor Herman E. Talmadge broke the ground for the new building, but it wisnoraumii 1955ethat the buildingcwasqready for occupancy. Since then both the 24 Ivy Street and the 55 Gilmer Street Building have been in use. . V t , ' .I X t V 'L f x' g , - . 'F TT'S'7r ' r , i -.f 4,-1, -- , fci Q lg- i W, I X , ' at i f t f ,Class in Spf1rkrHf1!l1 'S ' c - srL1denrL0rmgeinfh51aie,'5oi'Qii-g