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The Coca-Cola Building Annex
housed the less than successful Coca-Cola Chewing Gum Company
National Register photograph by Yen Tang
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Built in 1903 to house the newly formed Coca-Cola Chewing Gum Company, the Coca-Cola
Building Annex represents the early development of the Coca-Cola Company
and its attempts to diversify its line of products. Other products
included cigars and candies. Unlike their soft drink, the gum was
not successful and Coca-Cola dropped the product in 1905. The building
was an annex to the Dixie Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Plant , Atlanta's Coca-Cola bottling headquarters which contained
office space and a highly automated factory in the basement where
the Coca-Cola syrup was produced.
The three-story Classical Revival Annex building extended the
main building by five bays with its cornice heights, building materials,
fenestration and organization of the facade closely matching the
headquarters' exterior. The three-part main facade features a rusticated
basement level, a first floor with large plate-glass windows framed
by paired pilasters, and at the second and third levels, double
and tripartite windows grouped between pilasters. Classical Revival
details include terra cotta brackets and capitals, a modillion and
dentil cornice, and elliptical windows. Historic fabric that remains
intact on the interior of the building includes common bond perimeter
brick walls, exposed floor joists, wood sub floors, wood baseboards,
and window surrounds. Rehabilitations that took place from 1983
to 1984 and 1993 to 1994 have subdivided the once large open interior
spaces into many smalls rooms on every level. A light well and skylight
were also constructed on the east side of the building. The present
use of the Annex is for housing homeless HIV-positive and AIDS patients
that are receiving outpatient treatment at nearby Grady
Hospital , as well as administrative offices.
The Coca-Cola Building Annex, 187 Edgewood Ave., is privately owned and not open to the public.
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