Background
Gottfrid Norrman was born in 1846 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Gottfrid Norrman was born in 1846 in Stockholm, Sweden.
He migrated to the United States during his youth, and after a few years spent in Texas, traveled through the south until he reached Atlanta. Arriving there during the Cotton Exchange Exposition, and impressed by what he saw, Mr. Norrman decided to open an architectural office in the city. In the latter years of the 19th century he won recognition in planning a number of business and public buildings (some designed in association with a Mr. Humphries). He was also architect of the Gate City National Bank (afterward Temple Court); the Silvay Building; Jewish Hospital; First Baptist, and the Christian Science Churches; additions to St. Luke’s Cathedral, and the Telephone Building, all in Atlanta.
Mr. Norrman also designed the Citizens Bank built at Savannah, several schools in Georgia, and the State Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1894.