Burdell’s Building Bracket didn’t set out with the prize being a column on the winner, but it seems as fitting of a prize as any for a history columnist to give his pet project about the iconic buildings of the Georgia Tech campus. So, as you can probably guess, the winner of the building bracket was that brick icon on top of a hill on North Avenue, the building most commonly known over its lengthy 130+ year history as Tech Tower.
On a sunny midsummer day in June of 1887, the first shovel of red dirt was turned on the top of a hill overlooking the small but bustling railroad city of Atlanta.