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The Means Street Historic District in the Marietta Street Artery Association
/ref> Contributing properties include:
Allied Factory Lofts
500 Means Street, originally built in the late 19th century by the Standard Oil Company to be used as a barrel making shop. Now lofts.
512 Means Street. Originally constructed to house a furniture manufacturing company. Later used as warehouse space, candy manufacturing company, and a textile salvage company. Now office space.
530 & 544 Means Street. Includes the remaining portion of the 1907 Ware-Hatcher building which was used for furniture manufacturing, and which took over the 1903 Atlanta Buggy Company building, which was originally a buggy factory. Now office space.
535 Means Street, now the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
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Marietta Street Artery
Marietta Street Artery (formerly designated as "Bellwood") is an officially defined neighborhood of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, part of the West Midtown area of Atlanta, also known as the "Westside."
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district of Atlanta
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consists of historic, mostly 19th and early 20th century warehouse and industrial buildings now converted to office space along one block of Means St. between Bankhead and Ponders Aves. Means Street was named for landowner Alexander Means
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and was plotted in 1869. Warehouses were built in this early industrial corridor, then known as Bellwood, along the railroad line. Mule-pulled trolleys brought workers starting in 1882, and these became electrified in 1894./ref> Contributing properties include:
Allied Factory Lofts
500 Means Street, originally built in the late 19th century by the Standard Oil Company to be used as a barrel making shop. Now lofts.
512 Means Street. Originally constructed to house a furniture manufacturing company. Later used as warehouse space, candy manufacturing company, and a textile salvage company. Now office space.
530 & 544 Means Street. Includes the remaining portion of the 1907 Ware-Hatcher building which was used for furniture manufacturing, and which took over the 1903 Atlanta Buggy Company building, which was originally a buggy factory. Now office space.
535 Means Street, now the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
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