{"nrhp_refnum":"79000726","name":"Van Winkle, E., Gin and Machine Works","other_names":["The Murray Company/\"Murray Hill\""],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Foster St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.78509260650006,"lon":-84.41624100897054,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-09-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Landscape Architecture","Engineering","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A complex of industrial buildings on an 11.3-acre rail-served site on Foster Street in northwest Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, built between the early 1880s and the early 1930s as the E. Van Winkle Gin and Machine Works, later the Murray Company.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex is a well-planned late-nineteenth-century industrial site in which engineering, architecture and landscaping are combined, with a cross-axial, hierarchical Beaux-Arts layout. It is also described as an almost fully preserved, integrated manufacturing plant where the whole process of making cotton-ginning equipment can be traced. Continuous use has kept it from the decay and demolition of similar complexes.","narrative":"Occupying 11.3 acres beside the rail lines of northwest Atlanta, this industrial complex began as the E. Van Winkle Gin and Machine Works and later became the Murray Company. Its buildings date from the early 1880s to the early 1930s, with most of the principal ones standing by 1911. They are mainly one- to three-story red-brick structures with load-bearing walls and slow-burning timber-and-plank interiors, along with a few frame, concrete and steel buildings. Though plainly utilitarian, the layout follows Beaux-Arts ideas, with cross axes, a raised central pavilion and flanking wings. Details such as corbelled cornices, segmental arches and varied brick bonding show attention to appearance. A separate Sullivanesque-style office building sits diagonally along Foster Street. The site is considered significant because the full sequence of making cotton-ginning equipment, from raw materials to shipping, can still be traced, and because continued use has kept it largely intact. Today many buildings are leased to small firms, including metal fabricators and glass workers.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Utilitarian industrial buildings planned on Beaux-Arts principles; the office building is loosely Sullivanesque","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and still an ongoing enterprise; most buildings are leased to small manufacturers and other firms. The office building (Building No. 10) is vacant, most of the main part of Building No. 5 is vacant, and Building No. 4 has been demolished.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.156989-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/79000726.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000726/fce3000cd0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000726/fce3000cd0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Keizers","credit_html":"Keizers, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goat_farm-005.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"03000676","name":"Howell Interlocking Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/howell-interlocking-historic-district-03000676/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208382","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat_Farm_Arts_Center","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5575272"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/van-winkle-e-gin-and-machine-works-79000726/"}