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The Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant at 699 Ponce de Leon Avenue〔(Google Maps location )〕 in the Poncey-Highland neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia was the headquarters of the Ford Motor Company's southeastern US operations from 1915 to 1942. As a result of good sales in Atlanta, and a desire to decentralize production, Ford established a combined assembly, sales, service and administration facility on Ponce de Leon Avenue, selling a peak of 22,000 vehicles per year. The assembly plant produced Model Ts, Model As and V-8s until 1942, when the plant was sold to the War Department and a new plant was opened in the Atlanta suburb of Hapeville. The building was designed by Ford's in-house architect, John Graham. An office block in the front was backed by a multi-story loft-style assembly plant.〔Sams, Gerald W. (ed): "AIA Guide to the Architecture of Atlanta", page 199. University of Georgia Press, 1993.〕 The War Department used the building as a storage depot and as administrative offices. Sold for development in 1979, the building is now known as Ford Factory Square or the Ford Factory Lofts and is occupied by apartments and retail shops. Architects for the adaptive reuse project were Bradfield Associates. ==Photo gallery== Image:Ford Factory Atlanta 1914.jpeg|Ford Factory under construction 1914 Image:Ford Atlanta 2.jpg|Front and side view of the Ford Assembly Plant from Ponce de Leon Avenue Image:Ford Atlanta 3.jpg|Back and side view of the plant Image:Ford Atlanta 4.jpg|Close-up view of the back of the plant; Ponce City Market (formerly the Sears building, then City Hall East) in background Image: Ford Assembly Plant and Sears Building.jpg|Side view of plant entrance fronting Ponce de Leon Avenue; Sears building (with tower) in background File:Ford Factory Lofts Atlanta.JPG|East side of Ford Factory Lofts seen from the BeltLine trail, 2012 The Kroger supermarket at the Ford Factory is inspiration for a meme, Murder Kroger. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant (Atlanta)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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