A first design in 1923 by architects Pringle and Smith, for an eight-story building, was estimated to cost $800,000 to build; their second design in 1924, which was built, was estimated at $500,000, though rising to 12 stories. In 1929, the hotel was taken over by Colonel Charles H. Cox, one of the hotel's original investors, who had been a colonel of the Georgia National Guard 122nd Infantry. He changed the name to the Cox-Carlton Hotel and adapted the building to be solely a hotel, without apartments for bachelors. It was known as the Cox-Carlton from 1930 until 1981, even though it was sold to J. Will Yon in the late 1930s and was later owned by various others. One sale in the 1960s was for the entire hotel, with its furnishings and contents, for $625,000. The Hotel Indigo Atlanta Midtown was later inducted into
Historic Hotels of America, a program of the
National Trust for Historic Preservation, in 2021. It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places on November 1, 2006. The hotel is across the street from the
Fox Theatre and is a
contributing building in the
Fox Theatre Historic District. ==See also==