Presented by the Buildings Worth Saving
Committee of the Atlanta Preservation Center:

2007 List of Endangered Buildings:

Macy’s Department Store (formerly Davison-Paxon), 1927
Address: 180 Peachtree Street, NW
Owner/Contact: New York-based real estate investor group headed by David Werner
Threat: Future plans of the new owners are unknown.

In 1927 Davison-Paxon, a division of R.H. Macy & Co., opened its 600,000 SF department store with little fanfare, marking the beginning of a new retail district at Peachtree and Ellis streets away from the central city railroad tracks. Designed by Hentz, Adler and Shutze, Architects of Atlanta, and Starrett & Van Vleek of New York City, the modified Renaissance Revival building had the largest store window expanse in the country. It also incorporated a small vaudeville theater, which operated on the site for 20 years. All Davison’s stores changed their name to Macy’s in 1985; the downtown store was closed in 2003.

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