Pepsi-Cola Bottling Plant -- First floor plan, second and third floor plans
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Plant (New Bern, N.C.)
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Item information
- Title:
- Pepsi-Cola Bottling Plant -- First floor plan, second and third floor plans
- Topics:
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Architecture
- Subjects:
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Offices
Vaults (Strong rooms)
- Original Format:
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Linen
- Item identifier:
- ncar1596-001-bx0001-007-003_0001
- Genre:
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Architectural drawings
Floor plans (architectural drawings)
- Digital Project:
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Beaux Arts to Modernism
Source information
- Repository:
- State Archives of North Carolina
- Collection:
- Herbert Woodley Simpson papers, 1888-1941 (NCAR1596) held by State Archives of North Carolina
- Note field:
- Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
- Rights:
- Reproduction and use of this material requires permission from the North Carolina State Archives.
- Funding:
- Digitization of this image was partially supported with federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.
Building: Pepsi-Cola Bottling Plant (New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina)
- Architect:
- Simpson, Herbert W. (Herbert Woodley), 1870-1945 more info on Simpson, Herbert W. (Herbert Woodley), 1870-1945
- Built:
- Demolished:
- Street:
- Johnson St. and Hancock St.
- Community:
- New Bern
- State:
- North Carolina
- Zip:
- 28560
- Provenance note:
- The original structure on this site was built for George Bishop, as a factory for furniture and other household goods. Caleb Bradham, inventor of Pepsi-Cola, purchased the property in 1902.
- Architectural note:
- Simpson designed the larger Pepsi-Cola factory that sat adjacent to the smaller, older Bishop's Mill.
- Historical note:
- This site remained the headquarters for Pepsi's operations until the company's bankruptcy forced its sale in 1923. Both the Bottling Plant and Bishop's Mill were demolished in the 1970s.
- Location:
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New Bern (N.C.)
- Subjects:
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Demolished buildings
Factories
Historic buildings
Lost architecture
North Carolina -- History
- Latitude, Longitude:
- 35.111062, -77.04077
