{"nrhp_refnum":"08000895","name":"Winchester Coca-Cola Bottling Works","other_names":["Dhr# 138-5044"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1720 Valley Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Winchester","county":"Winchester","state":"VA","lat":39.17078973900004,"lon":-78.17722721399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-09-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, brick-faced, reinforced-concrete Art Deco bottling plant at 1720 Valley Avenue (U.S. Route 11) in Winchester, Virginia, built in 1940-1941 on a 1.3-acre lot, with additions from 1960 and 1974 and a rear brick garage/storage building.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a well-preserved mid-20th-century soft drink bottling facility in the northern Shenandoah Valley. Its large storefront windows, prominent roadside location and Coca-Cola signature reflect the company's use of architecture as marketing. It is also described as one of the most visually intact Art Deco buildings and one of the few surviving World War II-era industrial buildings in Winchester.","narrative":"Built in 1940-1941 along Valley Avenue, the main route through the Shenandoah Valley, this two-story reinforced-concrete factory bottled Coca-Cola for Winchester and the surrounding area. Its brick walls, cast-stone lintels and coping, and stepped corbelled entrance show a restrained Art Deco design attributed to Doran S. Platt of Davis & Platt, Inc., a Takoma Park, Maryland, building firm. Large plate-glass windows on the front let passersby watch bottling in progress, a departure from factories that hid production, and a cast-stone panel carries the Coca-Cola script. Additions came in 1960 and 1974, and the plant later served as a warehouse and distribution center until it closed in 2006. The interior remains largely unaltered, including an office with terrazzo floors and paneled wainscot. The property was listed for its place in the region's industrial history and for its well-preserved architecture, which reflects how the company promoted itself through building design in the mid-twentieth century.","period_of_significance":"1940-1958","architect_builder":"DAVIS & PLATT, INC. -BUILDERS (DORAN S. PLATT, ARCHITECT)","architectural_style":"Modern Movement: Art Deco","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed as vacant/not in use; the plant closed in 2006, and the rear brick garage is structurally unsound and in danger of collapse.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.498399-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/64/6841/41684164/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/08000895.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000895/488db8cb9d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000895/488db8cb9d-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Joel Bradshaw","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winchester-Coca-Cola-Bottling-Works-building.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Joel Bradshaw</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winchester-Coca-Cola-Bottling-Works-building.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41684164","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Coca-Cola_Bottling_Works","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16903511"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/winchester/winchester-coca-cola-bottling-works-08000895/"}