Rhodes Hall
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Rhodes Memorial Hall
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Exterior view of Rhodes Hall, "the castle on Peachtree Street."
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| Location | Atlanta |
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| Coordinates | 33°47′45.5″N 84°23′18″W / 33.795972°N 84.38833°WCoordinates: 33°47′45.5″N 84°23′18″W / 33.795972°N 84.38833°W |
| Built | 1904 |
| Architect | Willis F. Denny |
| Architectural style | Other, Romanesque |
| NRHP Reference # | 74000678 |
| Added to NRHP | March 01, 1974 |
Rhodes Memorial Hall, commonly known as Rhodes Hall, is a historic house located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was built as the home of furniture magnate Amos Giles Rhodes, proprietor of Atlanta-based Rhodes Furniture. The Romanesque Revival house occupies a prominent location on Peachtree Street, the main street of Atlanta, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It is open to the public and has been the home of The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation since 1983.
Rhodes Hall is a Romanesque Revival 9,000-square-foot (840 m2) house inspired by the Rhineland castles that Rhodes admired on a trip to Europe in the late 1890s. Architect Willis F. Denny designed the unique home with Stone Mountain granite, incorporating medieval Romanesque, Victorian, and Arts and Crafts designs as well as necessary adaptations for an early 20th-century home. After two years of construction, the house was completed in 1904.
Known as Le Rêve ("The Dream"), Rhodes Hall is one of the finest intact expressions of medievalism and late Victorian architectural design in Atlanta. The grandest feature of the interior is a magnificent series of stained and painted glass windows that rise above a carved mahogany staircase. The three-panel series depicts the rise and fall of the Confederacy from Fort Sumter to Appomattox, and includes medallion portraits of over a dozen Confederates. These confederate officers include ardent opponents of reconstruction (Robert Toombs, 1810-1885), a Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (Nathan Bedford Forrest, 1821-1877), and the head of the Ku Klux Klan in the State of Georgia (John B. Gordon, 1832-1904).
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