Glass office towers line Peachtree Street, with the High Museum of Art and a handful of older buildings in between.
What Midtown looks like
Peachtree Street runs through Midtown as a corridor of glass and granite office towers and condominium high rises, between Downtown Atlanta to the south and Buckhead to the north. , a 1987 tower topped by a single copper pyramid, rises at West Peachtree and 14th Streets. A few blocks south, the is a small brick Tudor Revival building. The glass tower at 999 Peachtree rises directly behind it.
The 's curved white stone building faces a plaza. , a curved blue glass condominium tower, rises behind it. On West Peachtree Street, the 's white columned portico stands in front of a parking garage. The , a brick block with turrets and balconies, sits near another glass tower on Peachtree Place.
The 's vertical red marquee rises at Peachtree Street and Ponce de Leon Avenue, a 1929 movie palace facing the . The Georgian Terrace's curved corner tower dates from 1911, with a taller tower added in 1991.
The , designed by Richard Meier with a later addition by Renzo Piano, sits inside the Woodruff Arts Center. At Piedmont Avenue and Ponce de Leon Avenue, the 1883 stands behind an iron fence. It is a red brick Queen Anne mansion, now the Savannah College of Art and Design's Ivy Hall. , 189 acres with its own lake, sits at the neighborhood's eastern edge.
Shot in Midtown
Two buildings account for most of what has filmed in Midtown, the High Museum of Art and the Georgian Terrace Hotel. Peachtree Street has also closed for filming on its own, for Anchorman 2 around the Campanile Building at 1155 Peachtree Street in 2013 and for the Netflix series Beauty in Black near Georgia Tech's Technology Square in 2025.
The Resident, 2018
The Robinson Atrium at the High Museum
Played Chastain Park Memorial Hospital
The Fox medical drama The Resident used the High Museum's Richard Meier designed atrium as the lobby of its fictional Chastain Park Memorial Hospital, with the museum's main entrance doubling as the hospital's own entry gate. The museum has also stood in for a London museum in Black Panther and a dystopian Chicago faction headquarters in the Divergent series. The Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier used the museum's Renzo Piano designed Wieland Pavilion as the same Smithsonian museum, in the scene where Sam Wilson donates Captain America's shield.
The Change-Up, 2011
The Georgian Terrace Hotel
Played Plantation Oaks Country Club
The comedy The Change-Up used the hotel's Grand Ballroom as the fictional Plantation Oaks Country Club, filmed in the fall of 2010. The 1974 film Cockfighter had earlier scenes at the hotel. A 2007 commercial for Bacardi, directed by Robert Rodriguez and starring George Clooney, was shot there as well.
What Midtown can double for
The National Mall in Washington, D.C.
The High Museum's Renzo Piano designed Wieland Pavilion doubled for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, in the scene where Sam Wilson donates Captain America's shield. The pavilion takes daylight through skylights rather than windows, leaving the gallery with no exterior wall to identify it. Richard Meier's spiral ramp and glass atrium sit in a different wing of the High, so a shot confined to the Piano pavilion keeps them out of frame. The museum's own gallery labels and wall text need to stay out of shot too, since they would otherwise identify this as an art museum rather than the Smithsonian. Try searching museum gallery now.
PPG Place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
One Atlantic Center's pink granite tower rises at West Peachtree and 14th Streets. Its neo-Gothic crown matches PPG Place in downtown Pittsburgh, both built in the mid 1980s. Vertical ribs rise to pointed pinnacles over a stepped, tapering top on each tower. PPG Place is sheathed in silver glass and One Atlantic Center in pink granite, so a wide, backlit shot holds the crown's shape better than its color. Other Peachtree Street towers need to stay out of frame, or the shot shows Atlanta rather than Pittsburgh. Try searching Gothic crown tower now.
State Thomas Historic District in Dallas, Texas
The Margaret Mitchell House is a small brick Tudor Revival house with the glass tower at 999 Peachtree rising directly behind it. Dallas keeps its own pocket of preserved Victorian houses from the same period in the State Thomas Historic District in Uptown, standing beside condominium towers built from the 1980s onward. State Thomas's houses are mostly wood frame with painted siding rather than brick, so keep any shot close enough to show the siding out of frame. Modern signage and parked cars in Uptown Dallas also need to stay out of a wide shot. Try searching Victorian house glass tower now.
