The building was designed in 1926 by a team of New York and Atlanta architects,
Ed Ivey and Lewis Crook, who were both Georgia Tech graduates and helped establish the
Architecture program at Georgia Tech in 1908, and opened in 1928 as a regional office for a national insurance firm. In 2007, the
Georgia Tech Foundation purchased the building, and sought permits to demolish the building as part of a plan to expand
Technology Square. The Georgia Tech Foundation appealed this decision. They instead purchased an adjoining property where a
SunTrust Banks branch was previously located. In September 2013, the Georgia Tech Foundation demolished two-thirds of the Crum & Forster Building, leaving only part of its facade, to clear space for a High Performance Computing Center mid-rise. As of late 2017, there are plans to build an restaurant in the remaining portion of the building, adjacent to a new
food hall at the adjacent new
CODA mixed-use development. ==References==