Southern heart beats to a cosmopolitan pulse.
A shining city built on the re-clay foothills of the Appalachians. Atlanta has come a long way since its tattered Reconstruction days, when Georgians named it state capital and the phoenix its symbol. The 1850s Hay House was outfitted with such cutting-edge technology as an intercom system, an elevator, and central heating. The elaborately adorned Italianate structure features stained-glass windows and trompe I'oeil marbleized walls.