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19-666: North Avenue may refer to: North Avenue (Atlanta) , an east-west thoroughfare in Atlanta on which Georgia Tech and the world headquarters for Coca-Cola are located North Avenue (Baltimore) , a major street in Baltimore that most of is part of US Route 1 North Avenue (Quezon City) , one of the major roads in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines North Avenue (Chicago) North Avenue station (disambiguation) , train stations of

38-438: A time and subsequently re-opened as The Masquerade , becoming a well-known nightclub and concert venue . After the owner sold the property for a mixed-use land development , now called North + Line , locals and preservationists obtained historic protection for the original buildings, which were to be included in the redevelopment as a restaurant . The Masquerade announced in late June 2016 that it would reopen in

57-510: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages North Avenue (Atlanta) North Avenue was named at least 150 years ago and was built along the northern city limits of a young Atlanta. For decades , huge portions of both Atlanta itself and Metro Atlanta have been built north of North Avenue, and also beyond the eastern and western ends of North Avenue. The western half of North Avenue carries U.S. Highway 29 , U.S. 78 , and U.S. 278 , but

76-475: Is the closest one to Georgia Tech, and it is a moderate walk between the two. Georgia Tech is sometimes jokingly referred to as the " North Avenue Trade School " in reference to this street, the largest thoroughfare near its original center. When North Avenue was first constructed, this arrow-straight avenue followed the lines between the already- surveyed land lots in Fulton County, Georgia , and it

95-553: The Blandtown section of West Midtown at 1421 Fairmont Ave in late August, just a week after closing its historic mill location. However, this was thwarted by a lawsuit filed by a developer planning to build single-family homes across the street in the industrial area . In mid-September, a deal was reached to temporarily house the club in Kenny's Alley, the bottom level of Underground Atlanta , starting in late October, though

114-489: The Sanborn-Perris fire insurance map of 1911 (section 250). At that time, the only road connecting it was Angier Street. It was noted to have been heated by steam power, no lighting, and a private water supply from a well 10 feet in diameter and 40 feet deep. A watchman made hourly rounds to seven stations. The Post-depression era saw an expansion of the mill in the late 1930s and early 1940s. After World War II ,

133-403: The "zero" east/west avenue which divides the northeast and southeast quadrants of Atlanta for the purpose of their street addresses and the U.S. Postal Service is Edgewood Avenue, which is many blocks farther south of North Avenue, running east from the downtown city center at Five Points . Because of this, the street numbers in midtown (the only part of the city that uses them) do not match

152-653: The 1925 agreement with the city to build the Sears, Roebuck & Company's giant Atlanta retail store, North Avenue was extended to the Sidings Rail Road tracks (now the BeltLine near today's Ponce City Market (which is the former Sears, Roebuck, & Co. building) and the DuPre Excelsior Mill. During the 1930s, a vehicle tunnel was dug underneath these railroad tracks, and then North Avenue

171-570: The block numbers. DuPre Excelsior Mill Located at 695 North Avenue in Atlanta , the Dupre Excelsior Mill (the actual name as of 1911 was "Du Pree Manufacturing Company Excelsior Factory") may have been built as early as 1890 by DuPre (also spelled Du Pree) Manufacturing Company. However, the mill fails to appear on Atlanta city maps in 1892 and 1899, which both show the property as vacant. The first possible reference to

190-453: The demand for excelsior was radically reduced. The introduction of foam rubber virtually eliminated the use of excelsior as stuffing material. Even so, the secondary packing material market continued for a short time. By the 1960s, the demand for excelsior was non-existent and the mill operated more as a storage facility than active production facility. By 1977, all the major mills in the Atlanta area had shut their doors. In 1977–1978,

209-464: The eastern and western quadrants of the city. Further east, North Avenue crosses the northern branch of Freedom Parkway just south of where it ends at Ponce, then Highland Avenue , and then Moreland Avenue where it crosses the Fulton/DeKalb county line, one block north of the end of the eastern branch of Freedom Parkway. East of here, it loses its middle turn lane and all of the homes on

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228-401: The eastern parts of those highways follow Ponce de Leon Avenue , just one city block north of North Avenue. Eastbound lanes cross over on northbound- only Piedmont Avenue , westbound lanes one block west on southbound-only Juniper Street, which continues south as Courtland Street. These are the two blocks east of Peachtree Street , Atlanta's main north/south street and the division between

247-647: The high-rise headquarters of BellSouth Telecommunications , the historic DuPre Excelsior Mill (formerly The Masquerade concert venue, now relocated), and the high-rise world headquarters of The Coca-Cola Company . The basement of the telephone company building contains the North Avenue MARTA station , which is a station of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority rapid transit system along its main north/south Red & Gold lines. This MARTA station

266-513: The mill exists in the report of the death of Hubert Neal on July 17, 1899. According to the report, his accident occurred at the Atlanta Excelsior Works, which may or may not be the same facility since at the time there were three excelsior factories in Atlanta. The earliest concrete confirmation of the mill seems to be three lawsuits filed against Dupre in 1907 for accidents that occurred at the facility. The mill does appear on

285-525: The mill was converted over to a pizzeria and barrio. With a Wurlitzer Organ as part of the setting, the Excelsior Mill featured everything from movies to bands to Shakespearian plays over its decade-long run; the pizza and barrio house survived until 1989. The Excelsior Mill, in its later years, is fondly remembered by blues fans as the residence of blues legend Willie "Piano Red" Perryman and an in-house pipe organ . In September 1989, it closed for

304-459: The name [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about roads and streets with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North_Avenue&oldid=1063111918 " Category : Road disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

323-673: The south side of the street, which were destroyed by the Georgia Department of Transportation in anticipation of the never-built section of the Stone Mountain Freeway . The road ends at Candler Park , with Candler Park Drive going only south and no roads to the north or east. Notable landmarks along North Avenue include the Bank of America Plaza , The Varsity , the Georgia Institute of Technology ,

342-508: Was extended eastwards towards Atlanta's Candler Park . North Avenue dead-ends into Candler Park Drive, which forms the western boundary of the Candler Park golf course. When Richard Peters was laying out the avenues and streets on the two large lots of land that he owned (#49 and #48), he counted North Avenue and Ponce de Leon Avenue as the first and second avenues north, and the next one north of those he named 3rd Avenue. Despite this,

361-454: Was very near to the original northern city limits. In fact, there was a line of fortifications of Confederate Army dug just north of North Avenue for the Siege of Atlanta in 1864. The first section of North Avenue was between land lots #50 and #49 west of West Peachtree Street and lots #47 and #48 to the east of this street. Prior to 1925, North Avenue ended at Randolph street. As part of

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