The downtown Atlanta of a century ago was unrecognizable compared to today.
Atlanta was still in its first decades as Georgia’s largest city, surpassing Savannah. Electric streetcars zipped around downtown and connected to the suburbs. Architectural firm Burge and Stevens formed downtown in 1919 and helped design many of those suburban residences in the Tudor and Colonial Revival styles popular at the time.
In the more than 105 years since then, the firm underwent name changes, expansions and a merger, but it always remained downtown. That streak will continue at least another seven years because the company — now melded into Ohio-based SSOE Group — renewed its lease in a place where its workers have long called home…