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Thornton house

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Photograph of the Thornton House, designed by J. W. Robinson and built in 1962 in Atlanta, Georgia. The long, modern style structure sits on a heavily wooded lot. Four arches crown the top of a glass-paneled exterior wall. A ribbon window runs the length of the left section of the home.This house is the first black-designed and -constructed home to be situated in an Atlanta neighborhood long barred to African Americans. Eventually this neighborhood became a mecca for prominent black professionals and politicians.
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