{"nrhp_refnum":"95001229","name":"Cooledge, F. J., and Sons, Company-Hastings' Seed Company","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"434 Marietta St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.76474717700006,"lon":-84.39757145299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-10-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story brick industrial building at 434 Marietta Street in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, built in 1913 by the Mackle & Crawford Construction Company for F.J. Cooledge and Sons. It sits beside the Western and Atlantic railroad tracks.","why_significant":"The building is argued to be a good and intact example of utilitarian industrial design for early 20th century manufacturing facilities. Its extensive structural use of concrete, including mushroom columns, was unusual for Atlanta at that date. It also represents early 1900s industrial activity, first as a glass and paint business and later as the Hastings' Seed Company.","narrative":"Built in 1913 at 434 Marietta Street in Atlanta, this four-story brick building beside the Western and Atlantic railroad tracks was constructed by the Mackle & Crawford Construction Company for F.J. Cooledge and Sons, a glass and paint business. In the 1940s it passed to the H.G. Hastings Company, which published a well-known seed catalog, shipped seeds and gardening supplies, and ran a retail store serving the Atlanta area. The design is plain and functional, with steel-framed factory windows, exposed concrete floors and ceilings, steel fire doors, and round mushroom columns that still show the marks of their wooden molds. Such heavy use of concrete was unusual for this type of Atlanta building in 1913. Similar industrial buildings are increasingly rare in the city. After a period of vacancy, a certified rehabilitation in 1994 turned it into loft apartments and gallery space, and the project received a local design award.","period_of_significance":"1913-1945","architect_builder":"Mackle & Crawford Construction Company","architectural_style":"Other: Utilitarian Industrial","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Certified rehabilitation completed in 1994 for loft apartments and gallery space; the building had been vacant from 1982 until 1992.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.820349-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/95001229.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95001229/9f23033693-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95001229/9f23033693-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Bama in ATL","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F._J._Cooledge_and_Sons,_Company-Hastings%27_Seed_Company.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bama in ATL</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F._J._Cooledge_and_Sons,_Company-Hastings%27_Seed_Company.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208140","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134346672"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/cooledge-f-j-and-sons-company-hastings-seed-company-95001229/"}