The Imperial Hotel in Atlanta is one of the few remaining tall buildings from the city's construction boom in the early 20th century.

The former hotel was opened in 1910, has 8 stories, and is representative of the Chicago school due to the flat roof and brick facade with grids of bay windows.

It was abandoned in 1980, added to the National Register of Historic Places a few years later, eventually converted to low-income housing, and is undergoing another round of renovations as of 2012.

[2][3] The hotel was completed in 1910 as part of a construction boom in Atlanta and helped expand the city northward along Peachtree Street.

In 1990, homeless people began occupying it, and it was converted to low-income housing in 1996 when Atlanta was cleaning up to host the Olympics.