Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant (Atlanta)

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Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant
File:Ford Atlanta 1.jpg
Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant (Atlanta) is located in Atlanta
Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant (Atlanta)
Location Atlanta, Georgia
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Built 1914
Architect Graham, John
Architectural style no style listed
NRHP Reference # 84001080 [1]
Added to NRHP May 10, 1984

The Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant at 699 Ponce de Leon Avenue[2] in the Poncey-Highland neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia was the headquarters of the Ford Motor Company's southeastern US operations from 1915 to 1942. As a result of good sales in Atlanta, and a desire to decentralize production, Ford established a combined assembly, sales, service and administration facility on Ponce de Leon Avenue, selling a peak of 22,000 vehicles per year. The assembly plant produced Model Ts, Model As and V-8s until 1942, when the plant was sold to the War Department and a new plant was opened in the Atlanta suburb of Hapeville.

The 150,000 square feet (14,000 m2) building was designed by Ford's in-house architect, John Graham. An office block in the front was backed by a multi-story loft-style assembly plant.[3]

The War Department used the building as a storage depot and as administrative offices. Sold for development in 1979, the building is now known as Ford Factory Square or the Ford Factory Lofts and is occupied by apartments and retail shops. Architects for the adaptive reuse project were Bradfield Associates.[4]

Photo gallery

  • Ford Factory Atlanta 1914.jpeg

    Ford Factory under construction 1914

  • Ford Atlanta 2.jpg

    Front and side view of the Ford Assembly Plant from Ponce de Leon Avenue

  • Ford Atlanta 3.jpg

    Back and side view of the plant

  • Ford Atlanta 4.jpg

    Close-up view of the back of the plant; Ponce City Market (formerly the Sears building, then City Hall East) in background

  • Ford Assembly Plant and Sears Building.jpg

    Side view of plant entrance fronting Ponce de Leon Avenue; Sears building (with tower) in background

  • Ford Factory Lofts Atlanta.JPG

    East side of Ford Factory Lofts seen from the BeltLine trail, 2012

The Kroger supermarket at the Ford Factory is inspiration for a meme, Murder Kroger.

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Google Maps location
  3. ↑ Sams, Gerald W. (ed): "AIA Guide to the Architecture of Atlanta", page 199. University of Georgia Press, 1993.
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links

Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons

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