Long & Gatling Architects

Long & Gatling Architects was an architecture firm headed by partners Henry Sprott Long, Sr and James L. Gatling which operated from 1949 to 1955. Its offices were located in the Frank Nelson Building on 20th Street North.

Notable buildings

• State Farm Mutual building (1946), 2311 4th Avenue North, 1946
• Baadar Mayonnaise plant, Steiner Avenue, West End, 1946
• Social Security Building, 2225 3rd Avenue North, renovation of the former City Market, 1946
• Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory, 900 6th Avenue North, 1947
• Home Baking Company, 2515 4th Avenue North, alterations, 1947
• National Coal & Coke Co. offices, 2nd Avenue South and 11th Street, 1948
• Hill Food Stores, 31st Avenue North and 26th Street, 1948
• Fulghum Shops, Cahaba Road, Mountain Brook Village, 1948
• Western Newspaper Union plant, 19th Street and 6th Avenue North, 1948
• 10th Avenue Baptist Church educational building, 10th Avenue North at 42nd Street, 1949
• Central Park Garden Apartments, 3rd Avenue West at Court O, 1949
• Hill Food Stores, 8500 block of 1st Avenue North, 1949
• Highland Towers apartments, 2251 Highland Avenue, 1950
• Lee Rucks Clinic, North Birmingham, 1950
• Home Federal Savings & Loan, 212 21st Street North, alterations

References

• "List of buildings recently designed by Long & Gatling, Architects" typescript (June 14, 1950), in "Architects & Architecture", Vol. 2 of material compiled by Hill Ferguson for the cornerstone vault in Birmingham City Hall