Dixie Coca-Cola Bottling Company Plant

The Dixie Coca-Cola Bottling Company Plant is a small brick building at 125 Edgewood Avenue in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, at the corner of Edgewood Avenue and Courtland Street. Built in 1891, it housed the Dixie Coca-Cola Bottling Company, founded in 1899 by Benjamin Franklin Thomas and Joseph Brown Whitehead, and so stands at the point where Coca-Cola moved from a soda-fountain drink to a mass-marketed bottled soft drink. It is a two-story structure with a projecting clapboarded wooden turret at the corner, three large arched windows on the Edgewood Avenue front and a roofline with Queen Anne style variety. Of ten sites firmly tied to early Coca-Cola history in the city it is the only one still standing. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1983, served Georgia State University as a Baptist student center from 1966, and was vacated in 2024.