{"nrhp_refnum":"92001070","name":"Atlanta Buggy Company and Warehouse-Hatcher Bros. Furniture Company","other_names":["Atlanta Buggy Works"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"530--544 Means St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.77275865400003,"lon":-84.40553394299997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-08-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two attached brick industrial buildings at 530-544 Means Street in an industrial area northwest of downtown Atlanta: the two-story Atlanta Buggy Company building (c. 1903) and the four-story Ware-Hatcher Bros. Furniture Company building (1907-1908).","why_significant":"The buildings are argued to be good examples of utilitarian early 20th-century industrial design, with load-bearing brick walls, segmental arched windows and heavy timber framing. They also represent early 20th-century manufacturing in Atlanta, where such buildings have become increasingly rare. Significance is local, under Architecture and Industry.","narrative":"Two connected brick factory buildings on Means Street, northwest of downtown Atlanta, record the city's early manufacturing past. The two-story Atlanta Buggy Company building went up around 1903 as a full assembly plant for buggies, including painting and upholstery, and still carries a painted company sign on its roofline. In 1907-1908 the Ware-Hatcher Bros. Furniture Company added a four-story building beside it and bought the buggy works for expansion. Furniture makers, including Southern Furniture and Fox Manufacturing, used the space until the Depression, and a textile salvage firm occupied it from 1951 into the 1980s. Both buildings are plain and functional, with load-bearing brick walls, segmental arched windows, heavy timber beams and floors, and sliding metal fire doors. They were listed as rare surviving examples of early 20th-century industrial architecture in Atlanta and as evidence of the city's specialized manufacturing. Part of the furniture building has been demolished, and the remainder is now offices.","period_of_significance":"C. 1903 - 1931","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"No Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The buggy company building and the remaining part of the Ware-Hatcher building were recently rehabilitated and are used as offices. A four-story section of the Ware-Hatcher building was recently demolished.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.702425-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/92001070.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001070/9671444bd5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001070/9671444bd5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cynthia Jennings","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlanta_Buggy_Company_and_Warehouse-Hatcher_Bros._Furniture_Company.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cynthia Jennings</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_Buggy_Company_and_Warehouse-Hatcher_Bros._Furniture_Company.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208072","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134344984"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/atlanta-buggy-company-and-warehouse-hatcher-bros-furniture-company-92001070/"}