Hentz, Reid & Adler
American architectural firm
Hentz, Reid & Adler was an architectural firm that did work in the U.S. state of Georgia. The firm is "known in the Southeast for their Beaux-Arts style and as the founding fathers of the Georgia school of classicism."
The partnership Hentz & Reid included Hal Fitzgerald Hentz (1883-1972) and Joseph Neel Reid (1885-1926). Rudolph S. Adler became a partner in 1913. In 1927, after Reid’s death in 1926, Philip T. Shutze became partner in 1927 and the firm became known as Hentz, Adler & Shutze.
Several of their works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
Works
Atlanta
140 Peachtree Street NE (1911, lower three floors remain), Downtown, currently the downtown offices of the Atlanta Historical Society
J. Mack Robinson College of Business Administration Building (listed under a previous name, "Citizen's and Southern Bank Building"), a.k.a. the "Empire Building", 35 Broad St. (Hentz,Adler & Shutze), NRHP-listed
Jacob's drugstore, 886 (now 810) N. Highland Ave. NE, Virginia-Highland
Paramount Theater (orig. Howard Theater), Peachtree St., between Ellis and Houston (demolished 1960)
Peachtree Southern Railway Station, 1688 Peachtree St., NW, Brookwood (Hentz, Reid & Adler), NRHP-listed
Reid House Condominiums (1924), 1325 Peachtree St.
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