![]() ![]() The Flatiron over the years was converted into offices, including for lawyers near the courthouse, and featured the popular Flatiron Deli, now closed.īut now the building is coming back to more its original use of mostly residences. Some 26 apartments were rented, with five of them having more than one resident. Hayward, the Junior League of Chattanooga and its toy shop, the Caldwell Studio of Dance, the Hem Sew Shop, the Lurene Specialty Shop, Michel Helen Florist, and some offices likely for mining and metal industry brokers and a Christian Science practitioner. King Boulevard and which later had its sharp front angle reconstructed) and the building housing Transcard and Pickle Barrel between 10 th and 11 th streets.Ī look at a 1938 city directory on file at the Chattanooga Public Library shows that the commercial tenants of the Flatiron Building then included the Rose-Davis Realty Co., the office of physician Dr. ![]() The others are One Central Plaza (by M.L. Steele, whose women’s hat shop was at the site before the older structures were torn down to make way for the Flatiron Building.Īlthough I have not looked up all the information to know for sure, this building was evidently the first of three uniquely triangular structures fronting Georgia Avenue. Other business tenants were to be an ice cream parlor in the basement and the store of milliner Mrs. It also said the corner apex would likely be a cigar or news stand operated by a drug store scheduled to move into that end of the building. “A glass-covered addition will be situated at the apex, just as is the case with the Flatiron Building of New York,” the story said. While the much-larger New York building has a different architectural façade, a January 1911 story in the Chattanooga News announcing the start of construction said the sharp corners of the buildings would be similar. The Flatiron Building was planned after the famous and still-standing Flatiron Building in New York, a 20-plus-floor structure opened in 1902 and which was bounded by Fifth Avenue, Broadway, and 22 nd and 23 rdstreets in the lower third of Manhattan. He would not rebuild part of the Read House into the current look fronting M.L. Read about three years later built a small office building across Georgia Avenue. Lupton both were interested in diversifying their business interests, as Mr. Lupton and named after his wife, Elizabeth.Įvidently, Mr. Downing had designed the Elizabeth Apartments built by Coca-Cola bottler J.T. ![]() Bearden, who lived in a still-standing home at the southeast corner of Riverview and Lawrence roads and whose other works included the Walker County Courthouse in Georgia and a co-commission of the Chattanooga Golf and Country club with W.T. The Flatiron Building was designed by Charles E. The first one built with residences in mind was the now-razed Elizabeth Apartments across Georgia Avenue and a few feet north, the article said, while the Flatiron was trying to take advantage of this demand and was not far behind. The building was opened in 1911 by Sam Read, proprietor of the Read House, as an apartment building with lower-floor commercial space.Īnd one article from that time mentions that the Chattanooga of 1911, much like the city of 2023, had a demand for downtown apartment or multi-unit residential housing. Investors include Robert Fisher, Bo Ferger and Dan Levan with Fisher Bay LLC and Clint Dean of Modus Build, while Pamela Fisher and Ali Ferger are making up the listing team, according to the Flatiron Heights website.Ī look at the building’s full story shows that history kind of repeats itself, at least in downtown Chattanooga. As one website says, it is to be renamed as Flatiron Heights and become mostly residential space with 15 condominiums and some office/commercial space on the first floor and in the basement. Regarding the Flatiron Building, I had noticed the scaffolding on it in recent months and figured some obvious renovation work was taking place there. The Flatiron Building is triangular shaped and from the early 20 th century, while the Regions Center is a uniquely cantilevered building from the late 1970s - at the very end of the mid-century modern era. But they do have another commonality in that they are known for their unique appearances. ![]()
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