Francis Palmer Smith

Francis Palmer Smith (March 27, 1886, in Cincinnati, Ohio – March 5, 1971, in Atlanta, Georgia) was an architect active in Atlanta and elsewhere in the Southeastern United States.

He transferred the curriculum of the University of Pennsylvania which emphasized Beaux-Arts architecture.

He opened an office on his own in Columbia in 1902, and in 1917 moved to Atlanta, practicing on his own again until joining as a partner with Smith.

[2] As part of Pringle and Smith:[1] And other buildings in Miami, Jacksonville, and Sarasota, Florida.

Pringle and Smith developed plans for a grand 750-room hotel on the site of the Hotel Aragon at the southeast corner Peachtree and Ellis streets, but the more modest Collier Building (1932–1970s) was built on the site instead.