Holmes/Hunter Academic Building

Holmes/Hunter Academic Building is an university building in Clarke County, Georgia which is located on Herty Drive. Holmes/Hunter Academic Building is situated nearby to the park Herty Field, as well as near the music venue Georgia Theatre.

Type: University building
Also known as: “Holmes-Hunter Academic Building”
Address: 101 Herty Drive, Athens, GA 30602

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Herty Field and Georgia Theatre.

Herty Field

Park

Photo: Pruddle, CC BY 2.5.

Herty Field, also known as Alumni Athletic Field, was the original on-campus playing venue for football, Track and field and baseball at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. Herty Field is situated 480 feet south of Holmes/Hunter Academic Building.

Georgia Theatre

Music venue

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Georgia Theatre is a live music venue and event space in Athens, Georgia. National and local acts across all genres have performed at the theatre, including rock, folk, country, indie, alternative, hip hop and electronic. Georgia Theatre is situated 720 feet northwest of Holmes/Hunter Academic Building.

Tree That Owns Itself

Photo: Boston Public Library, Public domain.

The Tree That Owns Itself is a white oak tree that, according to legend, has legal ownership of itself and of all land within eight feet of its base. Also known as the Jackson Oak, the tree is at the corner of South Finley and Dearing Streets in Athens, Georgia, US. Tree That Owns Itself is situated 2,200 feet west of Holmes/Hunter Academic Building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Athens and Five Points.

Athens

Photo: Rob, CC BY 2.0.

Athens is a vibrant college town of 127,000 people in the Classic Heartland region of Georgia. Athens is most popular in the late summer and fall when students, families of students or college football fans visit the University of Georgia.

Five Points

Neighborhood

Five Points is a retail corridor and neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, centered on the intersection of Milledge Avenue and Lumpkin Street. It occupies the South-Southwest edge of the University of Georgia campus.

Normaltown

Neighborhood

Normaltown is a neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, by the Athens Regional Medical Center and named for the State Normal School formerly located there. It was the first area of Athens to be wired for electricity after the completion of the Mitchell Bridge hydroelectric plant in 1896. Normaltown is situated 1½ miles west of Holmes/Hunter Academic Building.

Holmes/Hunter Academic Building

Categories: building and education
Location: Clarke County, Georgia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

33.95721° or 33° 57′ 26″ north

Longitude

-83.37544° or 83° 22′ 32″ west

Elevation

781 feet (238 metres)

Levels

Operator

University of Georgia

Open location code

865RXJ4F+VR

OpenStreetMap ID

way 41377547

OpenStreetMap feature

building=university

GeoNames ID

6690730

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