Curio Collection by Hilton, opened October 2019 inside the 1906 Candler Building — the seventeen-storey neoclassical tower built by Coca-Cola founder Asa Candler at 127 Peachtree, on the National Register of Historic Places.
"The 1906 Candler Building — Coca-Cola money rendered as marble and brass. By far the most architecturally serious hotel in downtown Atlanta. By George, the dining room in the old Central Bank vault, is one of the city's best-preserved interior spaces."
The Candler Building was completed in 1906 as the headquarters of the Candler Investment Company — the holding vehicle through which Asa Griggs Candler, founder of the Coca-Cola Company, ran his Atlanta empire. The seventeen-storey neoclassical tower at 127 Peachtree was, on its opening, the tallest building in the American Southeast. It was designed by Murphy & Stewart of Atlanta in white Georgia marble, with bronze ornament cast in Florence and a lobby originally clad in figured Belgian black-and-gold marble. The building has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1977. After a century of office use the property was converted to a hotel by the Beck Group with sensitive restoration of the original public spaces; The Candler Hotel, Curio Collection by Hilton, opened on 24 October 2019. The conversion is one of the most architecturally serious adaptive reuses completed in any American downtown in the past decade.
There are 265 rooms and suites across the upper floors of the original building. The interior layout has been worked around the existing column grid: rooms are larger than typical downtown product (the standard king runs to 380 square feet), and many feature original window detail and restored ceiling height. The interior register, by Stonehill Taylor, balances Edwardian gravity with contemporary lightness — bedheads in book-matched walnut, brass reading lamps, custom carpet referencing the original lobby pattern, marble bathrooms with rainfall showers and Crabtree & Evelyn amenities. The Owner's Suite — on the upper floor of the original Candler office space — runs to 1,200 square feet with a working fireplace and the original mahogany doors. Rooms looking east frame the Georgia State Capitol; rooms looking south face the AmericasMart and the College Football Hall of Fame.
By George, the hotel's dining room, is set inside the original Central Bank and Trust banking hall — Asa Candler's bank, which occupied the ground floor of the building from opening until the bank's failure in the early Depression. The space retains its original double-height ceiling, the original tellers' marble counters (now repurposed as a bar and a chef's table), and the steel vault door, which has been preserved and now serves as the entrance to a small private dining room. Chef Hugh Acheson's menu reads as Southern produce filtered through a French farmhouse register: country ham with rocket and Anson Mills polenta, dry-aged Carolina trout, the buttermilk fried chicken that has been on the menu since opening. The Bar Margot lobby bar is the most considered cocktail programme in downtown Atlanta. Afternoon tea is served Saturday in the lobby.
The fitness centre is on the second floor and includes Peloton bikes, a small free-weight room, and a Pilates reformer. The hotel's 6,000 square feet of meeting space is configured around the original Candler boardroom on the 14th floor — preserved at the original detail with a hand-carved walnut conference table large enough for sixteen, and a private terrace overlooking the downtown skyline. The hotel's downtown position puts the Georgia Aquarium, the World of Coca-Cola, the College Football Hall of Fame, the Center for Civil and Human Rights, and Mercedes-Benz Stadium within a fifteen-minute walk; Hartsfield-Jackson is twenty minutes by MARTA from the Peachtree Center station, two blocks from the hotel. For a downtown stay where the architecture matters as much as the service, no other Atlanta hotel offers comparable position.
For an Atlanta anniversary anchored on the city's history rather than its present, the Candler is the most considered booking. The Owner's Suite for a milestone year; dinner at By George in the old bank vault; afternoon tea on the Saturday in the lobby beneath the restored ceiling; a morning walk through the Capitol and the Sweet Auburn Historic District. Mention the occasion at booking and the hotel handles the brief reflexively — a Krug split on arrival, a card from the GM, and the small accommodations that make a celebration feel intentional.
For downtown Atlanta business — Coca-Cola, Equifax, Truist, the legal corridor along Marietta Street — the Candler is the most architecturally considered booking, and the only downtown hotel where the boardroom is in the original Candler office. AmericasMart, the Georgia World Congress Center, and Mercedes-Benz Stadium are within a fifteen-minute walk; the original 14th-floor boardroom handles small executive sessions; By George at lunchtime is the city's most considered downtown working table. Hartsfield-Jackson is twenty minutes by MARTA.
For a downtown Atlanta weekend at the architecturally inquisitive end — a single traveller spending a long weekend on the High Museum, the World of Coca-Cola, the King Center, and the Auburn Avenue Research Library — the Candler is the most considered booking. The standard king at the Candler is among the largest standard rooms in any downtown American hotel; By George at the bar handles a single guest at dinner without effort; the lobby bar at five is the most welcoming address in downtown Atlanta.
127 Peachtree Street NE
Atlanta, GA 30303
United States
Peachtree Center MARTA 2 minutes' walk; Mercedes-Benz Stadium 12 minutes' walk; Hartsfield-Jackson 20 minutes by MARTA
265 rooms & suites
Standard Rooms from $315/night
Suites from $650/night
Owner's Suite from $1,800/night
Check-in: 4:00 PM
Check-out: 11:00 AM
Building completed 1906; hotel opened October 2019; Curio Collection by Hilton
By George — Hugh Acheson kitchen
Original Central Bank & Trust vault
14th-floor Candler Boardroom
6,000 sq ft of meeting space
National Register of Historic Places
Hilton Honors
From $315/night. By George books two weeks ahead for any Saturday; the vault private dining room is bookable up to 12 months in advance for milestone celebrations. Rates rise sharply for Mercedes-Benz Stadium events, AmericasMart Markets, and the SEC Championship.
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