For the second issue in a row, readers are getting what might be termed a cream puff Mystery Photo. It’s an enormous, beautiful building. Now tell us what it is, and where it is located. Send your answer to elliott@brack.net, and include where you live.
As Mikki Root Dillon of Lilburn replied, the last Mystery Photo was “Our own High Museum in Atlanta from an unusual slant, but the little house gives it away.”
Fran Worrell of Lawrenceville gave more detail: “It’s the largest museum of visual art in the southeastern United States. It’s on Peachtree Street in Midtown. The High is 312,000 square feet and a division of the Woodruff Arts Center. The museum was founded in 1905 as the Atlanta Art Association. In 1925, the High family, for whom the museum is named, donated their family home to house the collection following a series of exhibitions organized by Atlanta collection J.J. Haverty. In 1983, a 135,000-square-foot building designed by architect and abstract artist Richard Meier to house the High Museum of Art. Meier won the 1984 Pritzker Architecture Prize after completing the building, which was funded by a $7.9 million grant from former Coca-Cola president Robert W. Woodruff, matched by $20 million raised by the museum. In 2005, architect Renzo Piano designed three new buildings as part of an upgrade to the Woodruff Arts Center complex which more than doubled the museum’s size.” The photo was made by George Graf of Palmyra, Va.
Also recognizing the photograph were Lou Camerio, Lilburn; Jon Davis, Duluth; Steve Ogilvie, Lawrenceville; Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill; Pat Mitchell, Boone, N.C.; Kay Montgomery, Duluth; Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; Mike Donahue, Lawrenceville; Olesya Goncharova, Johns Creek; Lindsay Borenstein of Atlanta; Lee Klaer, Duluth; Pat Bruschini, Peachtree Corners; Elizabeth Neace, Dacula; Michael Green, Milton; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; and why not you?
SHARE A MYSTERY PHOTO: If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Send to: elliott@brack.net and mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
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