{"nrhp_refnum":"88001174","name":"Southern Belting Company Building","other_names":["Toshiba Building","Garnett Station Place"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"236 Forsyth St., SW","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.74813922000004,"lon":-84.39667046799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-08-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-story brick industrial building at 236 Forsyth Street SW in Atlanta, Georgia, built in 1914-1915 for the Southern Belting Company and designed by Lockwood, Greene, and Company.","why_significant":"It is presented as a good example of Atlanta's early 20th-century industrial architecture, with load-bearing brick walls, large multi-paned steel-sash windows and a timber and metal interior frame. It also housed the Southern Belting Company, a leading leather belt maker for textile looms, and the Draper Company, a shuttle loom manufacturer. The design came from a Boston firm that led industrial design for the textile industry.","narrative":"Southwest of downtown Atlanta, at the corner of Forsyth and Brotherton Streets, stands a five-story brick factory building completed in 1914-1915 for the Southern Belting Company. Its load-bearing brick walls hold rows of large, multi-paned steel-sash windows, and the interior is carried by a visible frame of steel, timber and cast iron. Lockwood, Greene, and Company of Boston, a leading designer of industrial plants for the textile industry, produced the design. The building made leather belts that drove textile looms and also housed the Draper Company's southeastern sales office and parts warehouse for shuttle looms. Belt manufacturing declined after the 1950s as small electric motors spread, and the company left the building in 1967. The site had been residential before commercial growth moved south from the old business district. A 1986 rehabilitation turned the building into offices while retaining its exposed frame, wood floors and open interior spaces. It is recognized for its architecture and its role in the region's textile-related industry.","period_of_significance":"1914-1915","architect_builder":"Lockwood, Greene, and Company","architectural_style":"Commercial Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"A 1986 certified rehabilitation converted the building to office space, keeping the exposed structural frame, wood floors and open character of the interior.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.112891-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/88001174.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001174/f921305370-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001174/f921305370-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Brogers784","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Garnett_Station_Place_-_236_Forsyth_St._SW.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Brogers784</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:Garnett_Station_Place_-_236_Forsyth_St._SW.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208342","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Belting_Company_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7569677"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/southern-belting-company-building-88001174/"}