{"nrhp_refnum":"05000141","name":"Loeb, Sol, Building-Garrett-Joy Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"900 Front Ave. and 901 Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Columbus","county":"Muscogee County","state":"GA","lat":32.462990586000046,"lon":-84.99362255099999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-03-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two adjacent brick warehouse buildings in downtown Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia: the Garrett-Joy Building (901 Broadway, built 1883) and the Sol Loeb Building (900 Front Avenue, built 1902).","why_significant":"The buildings are good, relatively intact examples of late 19th and early 20th century \"slow burning\" warehouse construction, with original brick walls, wood posts, ceiling beams and window openings. They are also significant in commerce, having housed a succession of wholesale and manufacturing businesses important to Columbus history, including a whiskey and tobacco wholesaler, a clothing manufacturer, a syrup refiner, a hosiery mill and a wholesale grocer.","narrative":"Two brick warehouses stand side by side in downtown Columbus, Georgia, at 901 Broadway and 900 Front Avenue. The Garrett-Joy Building, 1883, was built by Joseph S. Garrett for his wholesale whiskey and tobacco business. The Sol Loeb Building, 1902, was built by the Cargill-Wright Company as a candy plant and syrup refinery. Both are two stories over a basement, with load-bearing brick walls, wood post-and-beam framing, segmental-arched openings and some surviving freight doors. This approach, known as slow-burning construction, was widely used in Georgia mills and warehouses. Over the decades the buildings housed grocers, confectioners, a tailoring firm that grew into the Schwob clothing manufacturer, a hosiery mill, and from 1930 to 1989 the Sol Loeb wholesale grocery company. They were listed for their intact industrial character and for their long role in the commercial life of Columbus. Rehabilitated with a modern stair linking the upper floors, they now hold shops and event space.","period_of_significance":"1883-1955","architect_builder":"Unknown (the Garrett-Joy Building was built by Joseph S. Garrett; the Sol Loeb Building was built by the Cargill-Wright Company)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Both buildings have been rehabilitated and are in commercial use, with retail shops and event space. The Garrett-Joy Building was vacant from 1988 until 1995.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.805383-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/05000141.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000141/28817d71ca-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000141/28817d71ca-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Unknown authorUnknown author","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sol_Loeb_Warehouse,_900_Front_Avenue,_Columbus_(Muscogee_County,_Georgia).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown authorUnknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sol_Loeb_Warehouse,_900_Front_Avenue,_Columbus_(Muscogee_County,_Georgia).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209110","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134440288"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/muscogee-county/loeb-sol-building-garrett-joy-building-05000141/"}