Thursday, March 17, 2011

Greek Architecture!

This past weekend, my husband and I traveled to Atlanta for the SEC Men's Basketball Tournament. We stayed at a beautiful hotel, Loew's, in midtown. The following photograph was the view outside my hotel room's window. This building is the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. The building is very pretty. I'm not sure if you can tell, but those are Corinthian columns outside the building. When I first saw them, I thought they were Ionic columns. But you know me, I had to be sure! So, I asked one of the workers on the inside. She told me they were Corinthian but had the curved lines at the very top like Ionics. So I guess, you could say the columns are both. You decided! Which type of column do you think it is?

 My View from the Lowe's Hotel
A Close-Up of the Eagle Column

 A Close Up of the Top