A worker operating a backhoe loader tore apart a small brick building at 152 Nassau Street, across the street from Centennial Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta.
After nearly three months of delays, the demolition crew on Friday afternoon finished tearing down the place where the first country music hit was recorded nearly 100 years ago.
Preservationists had filed two lawsuits alleging the city didn’t follow proper procedures when it made an agreement with a developer. That delayed the demolition, which initially began Aug. 8 before a judge temporarily ordered work to stop.
But both suits were eventually dropped.
Architect Kyle Kessler became the public face of the effort to save the former studio where Fiddlin’ John Carson recorded “Little Old Cabin in the Lane” in 1923.
