List of Coca-Cola buildings and structures

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Coke bottle design in the facade of the Elmira Building Elmira Coca-Cola Detail.jpg
Coke bottle design in the facade of the Elmira Building

The following buildings and structures are related to The Coca-Cola Company or their bottlers. As of 2012, 900 factories and bottleries served the company and many buildings formerly used by the company have been added to heritage registers. [1]

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During the early 20th century Coca-Cola's in-house architect, Jesse M. Shelton, used a compendium of architectural styles but typically included elaborate flourishes including Coke bottle designs in the facades to help promote the company's image. [2] During the depression in the 1930s, Coca-Cola often spent $500,000–$600,000 on elaborate bottling plants but, because they are commercial buildings, traditional architects have often overlooked their beauty. [3]

Atlanta, Georgia, architects Pringle and Smith designed buildings and created standardized designs for Coca-Cola bottling plants, including one located in Tifton Residential Historic District:

The 1937 Tifton Coca-Cola Bottling Plant is located at 820 Love Avenue. The building is a two-story, brick, commercial Beaux Arts-style building with tile roof, heavy modillions under the cornice, metal factory sash-windows, leaded-glass transoms over plate glass display windows, and decorative cast-concrete door surround. Terra-cotta panels with the trademark "Coca Cola" emblem are located on the façade and side elevations. Designed by the Atlanta architectural firm Pringle and Smith, the building is an example of "Standardized Coca Cola Bottling Plant, Model 3A." Between 1928 and the late 1940s, Pringle and Smith designed a series of plans for bottling plant franchises for the Coca-Cola Company that were built throughout the southeastern United States. [4]

United States

Selected Coca-Cola buildings in the United States, by state and city
BuildingImageCityStateTypeCoordNote
Coca-Cola Building (Morrilton, Arkansas) Coca-Cola.JPG Morrilton Arkansas Bottling plant 35°9′15″N92°44′35″W / 35.15417°N 92.74306°W / 35.15417; -92.74306 (Coca-Cola Building (Morrilton, Arkansas)) Listed on the NRHP in Arkansas
Coca-Cola Ship Building Coca-Cola Building Los Angeles.jpg Los Angeles California Bottling plant 34°1′43″N118°14′42″W / 34.02861°N 118.24500°W / 34.02861; -118.24500 (Coca-Cola Building (Los Angeles)) Streamline Moderne-style building designed by architect Robert V. Derrah in 1939, a

LA Historic-Cultural Monument

Coca-Cola Ft. Lauderdale Ft Laud FL crths02.jpg Fort Lauderdale FloridaBottling plantListed on the Broward Trust for Historic Preservation's Significant and Endangered Sites in Broward County, Florida [5]
Club Cool Epcot-clubcool.jpg Lake Buena Vista Florida Attraction Within Walt Disney's Epcot
Florida Coca-Cola Cocacolaplantocala1.jpg Ocala FloridaBottling plant 29°11′47″N82°8′11″W / 29.19639°N 82.13639°W / 29.19639; -82.13639 (Coca-Cola Bottling Plant (Ocala, Florida)) Listed on the NRHP in Florida.
Coca-Cola Trenton Trenton Coca Cola bldg06.jpg Trenton FloridaBottling plantListed in A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture [6]
Coca-Cola Bottling Plant-Athens Coca-Cola Bottling Plant, photographer facing NE from N. Finley St..JPG Athens Georgia Bottling plant 33°57′35″N83°23′0″W / 33.95972°N 83.38333°W / 33.95972; -83.38333 (Coca-Cola Bottling Plant-Athens) Listed on the NRHP in Georgia
Candler Building (1906) Candler Building, Atlanta.jpg Atlanta Georgia Office building 33°45′24″N84°23′17″W / 33.75667°N 84.38806°W / 33.75667; -84.38806 (Candler Building (Atlanta)) Listed on the NRHP in Georgia.
Coca-Cola Annex Historic Coca-Cola Building Annex.JPG AtlantaGeorgiaOffice building 33°45′21″N84°22′53″W / 33.75583°N 84.38139°W / 33.75583; -84.38139 (Coca-Cola Building Annex) Listed on the NRHP in Georgia
Coca-Cola headquarters Coca-ColaHQ.jpg AtlantaGeorgiaOffice buildingIncludes One Coca-Cola Place
Coca-Cola Olympic City AtlantaGeorgiaAttraction 1996 Summer Olympics
Dixie Bottling Plant Atlanta Dixie Coca-Cola Bottling Company Plant 2012 09 15 06 6270.JPG AtlantaGeorgiaBottling plant 34°12′16″N84°22′10″W / 34.20444°N 84.36944°W / 34.20444; -84.36944 (Dixie Coca-Cola Bottling Company Plant) Listed as a National Historic Landmark; now part of Georgia State University
World of Coca-Cola Coca Cola Hi-rise.jpg AtlantaGeorgiaAttraction 33°45′46″N84°23′34″W / 33.76278°N 84.39278°W / 33.76278; -84.39278 (World of Coca-Cola) Within Pemberton Place
Tifton Coca-Cola Bottling Plant Coca-Cola building, Tifton (East face).jpg Tifton GeorgiaBottling plant820 Love Avenue
31°27′40″N83°30′24″W / 31.46121°N 83.50658°W / 31.46121; -83.50658 (Tifton Coca-Cola Bottling Plant)
A contributing building in Tifton Residential Historic District
Chicago Coca-Cola Coca Cola Company Building Chicago IL.jpg Chicago Illinois Office and syrup plant 41°51′54″N87°37′34″W / 41.86500°N 87.62611°W / 41.86500; -87.62611 (Coca-Cola Building) Listed on the NRHP in Illinois
Coca-Cola Bottling Company Building (Quincy, Illinois) Coke Quincy IL.JPG Quincy IllinoisBottling plant 39°56′18″N91°22′37″W / 39.93833°N 91.37694°W / 39.93833; -91.37694 (Coca-Cola Bottling Company Building) Listed on the NRHP in Illinois.
Coca-Cola Bloomington Bloomington bottling plant northeastern angle.jpg Bloomington Indiana Bottling plant 39°9′50″N86°31′57″W / 39.16389°N 86.53250°W / 39.16389; -86.53250 (Coca-Cola Bottling Company Plant (Bloomington, Indiana)) Listed on the NRHP in Indiana
Shelbyville Coke Plant Shelbyville Coke plant.jpg Shelbyville Kentucky Bottling plant 38°12′36″N85°12′24″W / 38.21000°N 85.20667°W / 38.21000; -85.20667 (Coca-Cola Plant(Shelbyville, Kentucky)) Listed on the NRHP in Kentucky
Biedenharn Museum and Gardens Biedenharn Home, Monroe, LA IMG 4122.JPG Monroe Louisiana Museum 32°31′11″N92°7′52″W / 32.51972°N 92.13111°W / 32.51972; -92.13111 (Biedenharn Museum and Gardens)
Coca-Cola Branch Factory Old Coke Baltimore.JPG Baltimore Maryland Syrup plant 39°16′7″N76°35′53″W / 39.26861°N 76.59806°W / 39.26861; -76.59806 (Coca-Cola Baltimore Branch Factory) Listed on the NRHP in Maryland
Coca-Cola Bottling Company Building (Columbia, Missouri) Ragtag cinema.jpg Columbia Missouri Bottling plant 38°57′3″N92°19′30″W / 38.95083°N 92.32500°W / 38.95083; -92.32500 (Coca-Cola Bottling Company Building (Columbia, Missouri)) Ragtag Cinema
Coca-Cola Building Western Auto.jpg Kansas City MissouriOffice building 39°5′16″N94°34′52″W / 39.08778°N 94.58111°W / 39.08778; -94.58111 (Coca-Cola Building (Kansas City, Missouri)) Listed on the NRHP in Missouri
Coca-Cola Syrup Plant Coca-Cola Bottling Plant NRHP on Michigan Ave in St. Louis MO 02.jpg St. Louis MissouriSyrup plant 38°32′44.55″N90°15′57.01″W / 38.5457083°N 90.2658361°W / 38.5457083; -90.2658361 (Coca-Cola Syrup Plant) Listed on the NRHP in Missouri
Everything Coca-Cola Coca Cola building.jpg Paradise Nevada Attraction
Coca-Cola Works Elmira CocaCola.jpg Elmira New YorkBottling plant 42°5′21″N76°48′58″W / 42.08917°N 76.81611°W / 42.08917; -76.81611 (Elmira Coca-Cola Bottling Company Works) Listed on the NRHP in New York
Candler Building (1914) Candler-nyc.jpg New York City New YorkOffice building 40°45′22″N73°59′18″W / 40.75611°N 73.98833°W / 40.75611; -73.98833 (Candler Building (New York, New York)) Listed on the NRHP in New York
Coca-Cola sign 2017 Coke Sign.jpg New York CityNew York Billboard sign Times Square
Coca-Cola Bottling Plant Coca-Cola Plant.jpg Charlotte North Carolina Bottling plant 35°13′43″N80°51′52″W / 35.22861°N 80.86444°W / 35.22861; -80.86444 (Charlotte Coca-Cola Bottling Company Plant, Former) Listed on the NRHP in North Carolina
Coca-Cola Bottling Corporation CokeBottling.jpg Cincinnati Ohio Bottling plant 39°8′47″N84°28′26″W / 39.14639°N 84.47389°W / 39.14639; -84.47389 (Coca-Cola Bottling Corporation) Listed on the NRHP in Ohio; now part of Xavier University
Coca Cola Airport Corvallis Oregon Airport 44°25′19″N123°15′32″W / 44.42194°N 123.25889°W / 44.42194; -123.25889 (Coca Cola Airport) ( FAA LID : OG49)
Coca-Cola Park Coke Park.PNG Allentown Pennsylvania Sports venue 40°37′34″N75°27′9″W / 40.62611°N 75.45250°W / 40.62611; -75.45250 (Coca-Cola Park (Allentown)) Home field for the IronPigs
Coca Cola Beverages Northeast Coca Cola Beverages Northeast.jpg Providence Rhode Island Distribution center 41°49′52.7″N71°25′39.8″W / 41.831306°N 71.427722°W / 41.831306; -71.427722 (Coca Cola Beverages Northeast)
Coca-Cola Bottling Plant (Greenville, South Carolina) Greenville South Carolina Bottling plant 34°51′23″N82°24′10″W / 34.8565°N 82.4028°W / 34.8565; -82.4028 (Coca-Cola Bottling Plant (Greenville, South Carolina)) Now the Sigal Music Museum; only the front of the plant survives [7]
Coca-Cola Covington Coca-Cola Bottling Plant Covington,Tn.JPG Covington Tennessee Bottling plant 35°33′51″N89°38′58″W / 35.56417°N 89.64944°W / 35.56417; -89.64944 (Coca-Cola Bottling Plant) Listed on the NRHP in Tennessee
Coca-Cola Works Winchester-Coca-Cola-Bottling-Works-building.JPG Winchester Virginia Bottling plant 39°10′14.02″N78°10′38.34″W / 39.1705611°N 78.1773167°W / 39.1705611; -78.1773167 (Winchester Coca-Cola Bottling Works) Listed on the NRHP in Virginia

Other countries

Selected Coca-Cola buildings outside the United States, by country and city
BuildingImageCityCountryTypeCoordNote
Coca-Cola billboard Sydney Australia Billboard sign 33°52′30.93″S151°13′20.04″E / 33.8752583°S 151.2222333°E / -33.8752583; 151.2222333 (Coca-Cola billboard) In Kings Cross locality
Coca-Cola Coliseum Ricohcoliseum.jpg Toronto Canada Sports venue 43°38′08.27″N79°24′54.14″W / 43.6356306°N 79.4150389°W / 43.6356306; -79.4150389 (Coca-Cola Coliseum)

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