Historic Preservation · Performing Arts
Buckhead Theatre
Atlanta, Georgia
A comprehensive renovation and expansion restored an Atlanta movie palace while rebuilding it for contemporary performance, meeting, and event use.
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Proof, project by project.
All 37 projects in the current production-site record are represented here, joined by 7 projects documented from the firm’s 2026 qualification submittal and 10 source-backed additions from the firm and family archive.
Portfolio sector
Historic Preservation
13 records
Adaptive Reuse · Hospitality
Hotel Forty Five
Macon, Georgia
A 1923 insurance building and its later high-rise addition became Downtown Macon’s first boutique hotel in decades—renewing work begun by the firm’s founder across generations.
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Historic Preservation · Adaptive Reuse
Macon Terminal Station
Macon, Georgia
Macon’s 1916 passenger station first returned to use as Georgia Power offices and now serves transit riders, public agencies, and private events.
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Historic Preservation · Multifamily
Liberty Lofts
Brunswick, Georgia
A 1925 Ford showroom and repair garage at 1608–1610 Newcastle Street now houses loft apartments, offices, and a coworking community.
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Historic Preservation · Mixed Use
Dannenberg Lofts
Macon, Georgia
A downtown department-store complex became a skylit community of lofts and street-level retail—then Macon’s largest historic loft redevelopment.
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Commercial · Preservation Organization
Historic Macon Foundation
Macon, Georgia
Historic Macon Foundation’s office occupies an 1870 fire engine house at 950 Third Street, behind black-painted brick and a row of tall storefront windows.
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Historic Preservation · Mixed Use
Sterchis & Kessler Lofts
Macon, Georgia
Two former Cherry Street stores—a five-story department store and a four-story dry-goods building—now contain downtown lofts above street-level businesses.
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Historic Preservation · Multifamily · Mixed Use
The Hand Trading Company
Pelham, Georgia
South Georgia’s largest department store reopened in 2020 as 54 mixed-income apartments with shops at street level.
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Historic Preservation · Performing Arts
Royal Theater
Hogansville, Georgia
Hogansville’s 1937 Art Deco movie house reopened in November 2024 after a $3.7 million restoration for films, live performances, and community events.
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Historic Preservation · Performing Arts
Cox Capitol Theatre
Macon, Georgia
A former bank and early Macon movie theater returned from decades of disrepair as a live entertainment and rental venue.
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Historic Preservation · Multifamily
Broadway Lofts
Macon, Georgia
The 1916 Happ Brothers overalls factory — a National Register industrial building saved from demolition — became roughly ninety lofts around two interior courtyards, an early anchor of downtown Macon's loft-living revival.
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Historic Preservation · Mixed Use
Poptown Lofts & Retail
Macon, Georgia
A rehabilitation of the 500 block of Poplar Street pairs upper-floor lofts with a street level built for restaurants — anchored by Kudzu Seafood Company and its rooftop bar, and bright at night in a way the block hadn't been for decades.
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Historic Preservation · Community Arts
Mill Hill Community Arts Center
Macon, Georgia
A threatened 1920s mill auditorium was stabilized and restored as the 7,000-square-foot centerpiece of the East Macon Arts Village.
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Higher Education
17 records
Higher Education · Rehabilitation
Rhodes Hall, University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
A historic campus building was reorganized as the administrative home of UGA’s College of Public Health without surrendering its early-twentieth-century character.
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Higher Education · Science
Munroe Science Building, Wesleyan College
Macon, Georgia
Wesleyan’s first major academic facility in more than thirty years extends the historic campus plan with modern teaching and research laboratories.
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Higher Education · Historic Rehabilitation
Mayfair Hall, Georgia College & State University
Milledgeville, Georgia
Built as a private residence in 1900 and used for student housing during World War II, Mayfair Hall now welcomes prospective students to Georgia College.
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Higher Education · Historic Rehabilitation
McIntosh House, Georgia College & State University
Milledgeville, Georgia
Georgia College restored its oldest historic building, repairing an 1829 house while making the first floor accessible for university offices.
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Higher Education · Music · Historic Rehabilitation
McDuffie Center for Strings, Mercer University
Macon, Georgia
An 1855 landmark was rehabilitated as a music teaching center with practice rooms, faculty offices, and a 60-seat performance hall.
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Higher Education · Historic Rehabilitation
Admissions Office & Welcome Center, Mercer University
Macon, Georgia
Mercer paired a historic antebellum residence with a two-story addition for admissions, recruitment, and campus engagement.
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Higher Education · Historic Rehabilitation · Events
Academy of Medicine, Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia
Philip T. Shutze’s 1941 Neo-Classical landmark was renovated as an event and meeting venue for Georgia Tech.
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Higher Education · Adaptive Reuse
Student Center Annex, Georgia College & State University
Milledgeville, Georgia
A 1913 Methodist church became Georgia College’s Student Activities Center, bringing Campus Life, student government, lounges, and event rooms into one downtown building.
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Higher Education · Adaptive Reuse
Scott Hall, University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
A 1963 Navy computer center and officers club reopened in 2013 as the student center and dining hall for UGA’s Health Sciences Campus.
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Higher Education · Student Services
Academic Advising Center, Lanier Hall
Milledgeville, Georgia
GCSU replaced a run of enclosed offices with a more open advising center for staff collaboration, student meetings, and informal study.
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Higher Education · Library Renewal
Lucy Lester Willet Memorial Library
Wesleyan College · Macon, Georgia
Wesleyan kept its 34,500-square-foot library open through a three-phase renewal that added a 24-hour academic resource center, group-study rooms, and a makerspace.
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Higher Education · Adaptive Reuse
Powell Hall
Valdosta State University · Valdosta, Georgia
A 1940 WPA library dedicated by Eleanor Roosevelt became Valdosta State’s music building after a $4.4 million rehabilitation.
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Higher Education · Arts · Renovation
Fine Arts Building Renovation, Valdosta State University
Valdosta, Georgia
A targeted renovation of VSU's 1969 Fine Arts Building brings the Dance program up to accreditation standards and consolidates Graphic Arts, following the Theatre program's move to the university's new Performing Arts Building.
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Higher Education · Arts · Renovation
Fine Arts Center Renovation, Georgia Southwestern State University
Americus, Georgia
The first major interior renovation since the building opened in 1982 modernized more than 60,000 square feet of studios, labs, theater, and gallery space — and stretched an infrastructure budget far enough to transform how the building teaches.
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Higher Education · Medical Education · Adaptive Reuse
Dublin Center & Library Renovations, Middle Georgia State University
Dublin, Georgia
A 1962 hospital that the community still called "the Old Dublin Hospital" became a modern nursing campus — simulation labs, science labs, and a 100-seat classroom inside a building nobody mistakes for its past.
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Higher Education · Performing Arts · Historic Rehabilitation
Tattnall Center for the Performing Arts, Mercer University
Macon, Georgia
An 1891 church beside Mercer's campus became the Drama Department's home — an 18,000-square-foot complex with a flexible theater, shops, and classrooms, delivered on time under historic tax-credit review.
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Higher Education · Arts · Adaptive Reuse
McEachern Art Center, Mercer University
Macon, Georgia
A downtown storefront at 332 Second Street became "the MAC" — Mercer's contemporary art gallery and studios, and the Art Department's first off-campus home in its seventy-year history.
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K–12 Education
3 records
K–12 Education
Howard High School
Macon, Georgia
A 190,000-square-foot high school organizes academic, arts, vocational, and ROTC programs around a central courtyard and shared campus services.
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K–12 Education
Central High School
Macon, Georgia
A new comprehensive high school was built beside the existing campus so classes could continue throughout construction.
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K–12 Education
Veterans Elementary School
Macon, Georgia
A fully accessible elementary school steps with a sloping site, joining a one-story shared core to two-story classroom wings.
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Medical
4 records
Medical · Commercial
Third Street Medical Office Building
Macon, Georgia
A physician-focused medical office project combines clinical, surgical, imaging, and pathology functions with a welcoming shared interior.
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Medical
Dialysis Center
Macon, Georgia
A two-story medical facility places 29 dialysis stations below physicians’ offices on a difficult historic-district site.
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Medical · Workplace
Hemlock Street Medical Office Building
Macon, Georgia
A 43,000-square-foot medical office building at 777 Hemlock Street connects directly to a 300-car garage and provides flexible suites for physician practices.
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Medical · Hospice
Inpatient Hospice House
Macon, Georgia
A 15-room inpatient hospice combines clinical and administrative spaces with a chapel, spa, and places for families to gather.
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Commercial
5 records
Commercial · Automotive
Butler Lexus Dealership
Macon, Georgia
Butler Automotive’s 46,000-square-foot Lexus dealership brings sales, service, and customer areas together at 4550 Riverside Drive.
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Commercial
Monkeywrench Bicycles
Saint Simons Island, Georgia
Monkeywrench came to Saint Simons in 2003 and moved to 1708 Frederica Road five years later. The shop sells and repairs bikes, runs a rental fleet, and starts island group rides from its front door.
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Commercial · Workplace
Mauldin & Jenkins
Macon, Georgia
Founded in 1918, Mauldin & Jenkins serves Middle Georgia from a third-floor office in Gateway Plaza, with client rooms overlooking Downtown Macon.
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Commercial · Workplace
Gateway Plaza
Macon, Georgia
Completed in 2005 on Downtown Macon’s triangle property, Gateway Plaza is a six-story Class-A office building with covered parking, lobby dining, and suites currently offered for lease.
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Commercial · Automotive
INFINITI Dealership
Macon, Georgia
A low, glass-fronted INFINITI showroom keeps the vehicles and customer floor visible from Riverside Drive while a tall roadside pylon carries the brand above the forecourt.
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Civic & Public
1 records
Portfolio sector
Residential
2 records
Residential
Stewart Residence
Austin, Texas
A compact Austin house turns a pale, steep-roofed exterior toward warm, carefully proportioned rooms where cabinetry, lighting, and quiet color carry the domestic character.
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Residential
Cavalier Residence
Saint Simons Island, Georgia
A Saint Simons Island house gathers bright rooms around a tall entry and a vaulted living space, then opens its sheltered rear elevation toward a pool and coastal landscape.
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Legacy Work
9 records
Legacy Work · K–12 Education · New Deal
Hawkinsville Public School
Hawkinsville, Georgia
W. Elliott Dunwody, Jr. designed the 1936 first phase of this Colonial Revival school, built with Public Works Administration support.
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Legacy Work · Higher Education
Student Life Center, Middle Georgia State University
Macon, Georgia
A 1997 archival rendering attributes the former Macon State College Student Services Building—now the Student Life Center—to Dunwody, Beeland, Azar, Walsh & Matthews.
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Legacy Work · Historic Preservation
Jerry Cowles Cottage Relocation & Restoration
Macon, Georgia
Elam Alexander’s circa-1830 Greek Revival cottage was dismantled at 519 Walnut Street and rebuilt six miles away under W. Elliott Dunwody, Jr.’s direction.
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Legacy Work · Higher Education · New Deal
Beeson Hall
Georgia College & State University · Milledgeville, Georgia
W. Elliott Dunwody, Jr. designed this 1937 women's dormitory, a disciplined campus building shaped during the New Deal era.
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Legacy Work · Residential · Relocation
Porter House / Porterfield
Wesleyan College · Macon, Georgia
W. Elliott Dunwody’s 1928 country house for James and Olive Porter was moved to Wesleyan College in 2013 and rebuilt for meetings and events.
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Legacy Work · Higher Education · Performing Arts
Porter Family Memorial Fine Arts Building
Wesleyan College · Macon, Georgia
W. Elliott Dunwody’s mid-1950s fine-arts building gave Wesleyan a 1,200-seat auditorium, studio theater, art gallery, classrooms, and a concert organ.
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Legacy Work · Higher Education · Campus
The Dunwody Buildings at Wesleyan College
Macon, Georgia
Four W. Elliott Dunwody buildings record Wesleyan’s postwar growth: Huckabee Hall, two residence halls, and a dedicated art building completed between 1957 and 1964.
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Legacy Work · Higher Education · Library
Jack Tarver Library
Mercer University · Macon, Georgia
Mercer's 1987 campus newspaper credits the library to Dunwody, Beeland and Henderson; Eugene Cox Dunwody's public biography names it among the projects under his direction.
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Legacy Work · Commercial · Mid-Century Modern
First National Bank, Southside Branch
2791 Houston Avenue · Macon, Georgia
W. Elliott Dunwody, Jr.’s 1957 Southside branch bank closed in 2000 and later became the youngest building named to Historic Macon’s Fading Five.
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Additional commissions
22 recordsFurther work named in the firm’s 2026 qualification record, awaiting photography and full documentation.
Performing arts & theaters
- New Music Practice Facility, Georgia College & State UniversityMilledgeville, Georgia
- Blackbox Theatre & Bookstore Renovation, Georgia College & State UniversityMilledgeville, Georgia
- CEC Music Renovation, Middle Georgia State UniversityMacon, Georgia
- Ritz TheaterAlbany, Georgia
- Pal TheatreVidalia, Georgia
Campus renovations
- Taylor Hall Renovation (LEED), Wesleyan CollegeMacon, Georgia
- Russell Hall Renovations, Phases I–IV, Middle Georgia CollegeCochran, Georgia
- Grace Hall Renovations, Phases I–IV, Middle Georgia CollegeCochran, Georgia
- Russell Hall Renovation, Georgia College & State UniversityMilledgeville, Georgia
- Parks Hall Business Office Renovation, Georgia College & State UniversityMilledgeville, Georgia
- Center for Graduate & Professional Learning, Georgia College & State UniversityMacon, Georgia
- Walter F. George School of Law Renovations, Mercer UniversityMacon, Georgia
- Education Center Partial Renovation Building Program, Valdosta State UniversityValdosta, Georgia
- Administration Building Accounting Office Renovation, Middle Georgia State UniversityMacon, Georgia
Downtown & civic rehabilitation
- Neel's LoftsMacon, Georgia
- 338 Poplar Street RehabilitationMacon, Georgia
- Robert S. Train Memorial Recreation Center RehabilitationMacon, Georgia
- Roundtop Building Renovation, Macon Water AuthorityMacon, Georgia
- Georgia Power District Office at the Terminal StationMacon, Georgia
- Georgia Music Hall of FameMacon, Georgia
- Davis-Exchange Building RenovationAlbany, Georgia
- Albany Herald Buildings Stabilization, City of AlbanyAlbany, Georgia