Academy of Medicine

The Academy of Medicine in midtown Atlanta, Georgia was built in 1941 and housed the Medical Association of Atlanta until the 1970s. The Academy was designed by the Atlanta architecture firm of Hentz, Adler and Shutze, with R. Kennon Perry the project architect and Philip Trammell Shutze the supervising principal. The building was intended as a meeting place for Atlanta physicians. Shutze's austerely classical design is reminiscent of the work of John Soane and Benjamin Latrobe. By the 1970s, the building had fallen into disrepair. The building was renovated in 1983 and is used by the public as well as the medical profession. In 2008, Atlanta Medical Heritage, Inc. donated the Academy of Medicine to The Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc. due...