"Over the last 40 years, I’ve seen scraggly wildlife in this urban zip code, but never creatures of this size - in robust health. I posted the photo on my Facebook page, and the big city wildlife received a spirited response."
The Odd Fellows Building was suggested by Black newspaper editor Benjamin J. Davis (1870-1945), designed by white Atlanta architect William A. Edwards (1866-1939) and built by Robert E. Pharrow, owner of an African-American construction company. Despite the Jim Crow era, the two men, Black and white, worked side by side toward completing the structure.
“This building is really an upscale fortress,” noted Dr. Stuart Noel, Director of the Reid House HOA Board. “If you were to pick the most famous Atlanta names past and present, many have called Reid House home.” Alston, Candler, Dewberry, Dorsey, Inman, Lanier and Woodruff — a residents' roll call.
In his storied career, he amassed 12 state titles — nine at Southwest DeKalb, three with Gordon High School — and an induction into the Georgia Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame."He defined track and field around here.”
Hailed by the New York Times as the “leader of a new generation of opera stars,” and christened “opera’s nose-studded rock star,” Rome, Georgia's Mezzo-Soprano Jamie Barton has blown off the stodgy opera dust of a few centuries.