Decatur as a Grid
Decatur Metro | September 27, 2011
Jon at The Midtown Archive sends along this most excellent pic of Decatur Square from 1961, which shows the actual “square” around the old Courthouse, and the generally more grid-like nature of the rest of the city’s layout prior to the great RENEWAL of the late 60s and 70s.
This is actually the first time I’ve seen a photo of the buildings that once sat along West Courthouse Square (where the Birds From Hell building now stands) and of the commercial buildings that were taken out by the new DeKalb Courthouse.
From what I can tell, this photo is shot looking in a northwesterly direction.