Sunday, January 15, 2012

Seven Cotton Docks Doors on the BeltLine

It's a good look: an old warehouse with fancy doors.



The Virginia Cotton Docks are on Atlanta's BeltLine in the Old Fourth Ward. The loading docks served a railroad siding of the BeltLine.

I understand it was a warehouse for the huge Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill about a mile south. That's about all I know.

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The Old Fourth Ward is popular these days in part because of spaces like this and the smallish mill houses in the neighborhood. It's late to the gentrification party.

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Sometime, somebody converted it to work / live / gallery / gym / warehouse / who knows what lofts.

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The conversion included fancy doors, every one unique.

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These face the BeltLine proper between Highland Avenue and Irwin Street at the east dead end of John Wesley Dobbs. (Map)

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They are hard to see unless you are on the BeltLine.

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That would be tough today because BeltLine construction is making a big mess.

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But you can see them from the Kevin Rathbun Steak parking lot.

I took these pictures from the back patio of square feet studio.

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The door may be open by the mystery abides.

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This used to be a gym for aerial silk dancing but I think they moved to Delalb Avenue.

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Just inside the door was a balcony with a commanding view of the gym with silk hanging everywhere. Would you have guessed?



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I'm partial this this one.

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The transom, glass doors, lanterns, urns, trees make it a total package.

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The dock itself is a giant covered porch. It should be a prime people watching spot as the Beltline progresses.

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There are a bunch more doors at the docks.

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This was the BeltLine before, less than a year ago.

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This was the dock-of-the-7 doors before.

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The green-on-pink door in festive dress was a good place to hang.

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This the the BeltLine construction mess today. The 7 doors on the right, Kevin Rathbun Steak, square feet studio building on the left.

See: "Virginia Cotton Docks - Sampson Street, Atlanta" for more.

6 comments:

  1. Terry I love to see this rejuvenation. I love the unique doors!

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    Karena
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    2. Wow! I really like the style of the doors. You done some things that I haven't seen before and that's unusual today! :)

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  2. I like the before and after pictures. I hope the Beltline people are taking lots of those!

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