There was a rapid increase in the student body at Georgia Tech after World War II. Paul M. "P.M." Heffernan was the chief designer for the expansion plans for the Georgia Tech Campus, including the first Research Building, Smith, Glenn and Tower Dormitories, the Old West Stands of the Grant Field, the Bradley Building, the School of Textile Engineering, the School of Architecture, the Price Gilbert Library, and the State Highway Laboratory. A number of these buildings are under threat of insensitive renovation or demolition to accommodate changing uses and new technology. While the successful rehabilitation of the Hinman Research Building for use by Tech's College of Architecture is an excellent example of adaptive use of a Modern building, the demolition of the Burge Apartments and the Hightower Textile Building (on APC's endangered list in 2001) demonstrate the negative aspect of the pressure to modernize campus facilities. The following is a representative list of endangered buildings. Campus Master Plan (as Bush-Brown, Gailey, Architects, associated with Richard L. Aeck and P. M. Heffernan, Architects) (1944), Towers and Glenn Dormitories (1947), Smith Dormitory (1949), (old) Architecture Building (as Bush-Brown, Gailey, Architects, associated with Richard L. Aeck and P. M. Heffernan, Architects) (1952), Price Gilbert Memorial Library (as Bush-Brown, Gailey, Architects, associated with Richard L. Aeck and P. M. Heffernan, Architects) (1953)

Listed in 2011

Address: Georgia Tech Campus, North Avenue NW Atlanta, GA  30332
Area of City: Midtown
Time: 1939 and forward