The J. Mack Robinson College of Business Administration Building is a 14-story highrise at the corner of Broad and Marietta streets in the Fairlie-Poplar district of downtown Atlanta, which houses the business school of Georgia State University. When completed in 1901 as the Empire Building, it was the first steel-frame structure and the tallest in the city, until surpassed by the Candler Building in 1906.[6][7]

Morgan & Dillon and Hentz, Adler & Shutze were architects. In 1972, while named the Citizens & Southern National Bank Building, the structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places.[4]

The ground floor houses a full-service Bank of America branch. NationsBank purchased Citizens & Southern National Bank in 1991, and after later acquiring BankAmerica Corp., it, along with its branches, was renamed Bank of America.

The building doubled as the Illinois First Federal Savings & Loan association building in the 2016 film The Founder, a biopic of Ray Kroc starring Michael Keaton.[8]

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  1. ^ "Emporis building ID 121170". Emporis. Archived from the original on December 3, 2020.
  2. ^ "J. Mack Robinson College of Business Administration Building". SkyscraperPage.
  3. ^ J. Mack Robinson College of Business Administration Building at Structurae
  4. ^ a b "National Register of Historic Places - Georgia (GA), Fulton County". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 20, 2010. Retrieved January 28, 2010.
  5. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  6. ^ "Five Points / Marietta Street / Fairlie-Poplar". Central Atlanta Progress. Atlanta Downtown Improvement District. 2011. Archived from the original on January 24, 2011. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
  7. ^ "Marietta St at Broad St". Atlanta Time Machine. June 5, 2008. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
  8. ^ "How the earliest McDonald's restaurants were recreated for Michael Keaton's new movie". Business Insider.

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