The State of Georgia Building (also known as 2 Peachtree Street and previously known as the First National Bank Building[6]) is a 44-story, 566 feet (173 m) skyscraper located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
[2] It was Atlanta's tallest until 1976, when the Westin Peachtree Plaza surpassed it.
Ten Eyck Brown's 1917 covered shopping arcade which connected Peachtree and Broad streets.
[7] 2 Peachtree Street was originally constructed as the new headquarters building for First National Bank of Atlanta, also known as First Atlanta,[8] replacing its older (1905) headquarters building next door (the lower half of which remains today as Georgia State's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies).
[9] First Atlanta was acquired by the holding company for Wachovia Bank in 1985, but continued to operate under its own charter until 1991.