page_title: Max Corput
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: Max Corput / Later life
caption_attribution_description: English: First DeGive Opera House (1870) doing business as Bijou Theatre. Demolished 1921.
context_page_description: Max Corput, fully documented as Maximilien van den Corput was a Belgian-American architect. He designed the second Union Station of Atlanta, Georgia. Van den Corput also served as an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
context_section_description: After the war Corput settled in Atlanta and founded the architectural firm of Van den Corput and Fay. He had previously been involved in the firm Corput and Bass, where he had begun his career as an engineer, but became known for his architectural designs.
  Corput died on January 16, 1911, in Atlanta and was buried there in Oakland Cemetery. His grave was unmarked until 2014. He was survived by his wife, and mother of their six children, Marie, who was 24 years younger than him and died in 1920. Corput and his battery are the namesakes of the Sons of Confederate Veterans Capt. Max van den Corput's Battery Camp #669.
caption: DeGive's Opera House building toward the end of its life, doing business as the Bijou Theater
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