{"nrhp_refnum":"77000428","name":"Dixie Coca-Cola Bottling Company Plant","other_names":["Baptist Student Center,Georgia State University"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"125 Edgewood Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":34.204639016000044,"lon":-84.36925413699998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-07-20","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1983-05-04","areas_of_significance":["Industry"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small two-story Victorian red-brick commercial building at the corner of Edgewood Avenue and Courtland Street in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, built about 1892 by an unknown builder, with shops below and living quarters above.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is architecturally unusual in Atlanta as a High Victorian business building combining shops and residence. Its greater importance is commercial: it housed the Dixie Coca-Cola Bottling Company, the second Coca-Cola bottling plant in the United States and the first in Georgia, where the franchise bottling concept was developed and expanded.","narrative":"This small, two-story Victorian commercial building stands at Edgewood Avenue and Courtland Street in Atlanta, across from Hurt Park. Built around 1892 by an unknown proprietor, it combined shops on the ground floor with living quarters above, an arrangement the nomination calls unique in Atlanta. Its facades blend Italian Renaissance arcades and arches with heavier Romanesque motifs, a Dutch stepped gable and a shingled corner turret. Its larger importance lies in commerce. In April 1900 Joseph B. Whitehead opened the Dixie Coca-Cola Bottling Company here, the second Coca-Cola bottling plant in the country and the first in Georgia. The operation was outgrown within a year, and Whitehead and his partner began selling franchises to other bottlers, first locally and then nationally. That franchise system spread bottled Coca-Cola widely. Later alterations removed balconies, a chimney and original doors, and the exterior was painted yellow. It later served as a student center.","period_of_significance":"c. 1892","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"High Victorian, mixing Italian Renaissance and Romanesque-inspired elements with a Dutch stepped gable","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as the Baptist Student Center of Georgia State University at the time of nomination; the ground floor was remodeled and is in good condition, and the unaltered upstairs plan is in fair condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.491578-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/77000428.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000428/03052ec2dd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000428/03052ec2dd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ganeshk","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlanta_Dixie_Coca-Cola_Bottling_Company_Plant_2012_09_15_06_6270.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ganeshk</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlanta_Dixie_Coca-Cola_Bottling_Company_Plant_2012_09_15_06_6270.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208154","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Coca-Cola_Bottling_Company_Plant","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284825"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/dixie-coca-cola-bottling-company-plant-77000428/"}