History of the Bradley Building
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What is today known as the Bradley Building was constructed in 1888 by W.C. Baker and H.H. Hall as a hardware store. In 1902, H.T. Bradley purchased the building and opened the Bradley Brothers Hardware store. Hall & Green Drug Store also occupied part of the building. Thirsty patrons entered through swinging doors on Cherokee Street (then Market Street) to The Imperial Saloon operated by H.J. Galt in the basement of the building.

According to the historical records, Ben C. Gilreath purchased the building sometime between 1910 and 1920, and rented space to the Eagle Café and a movie theater. The Bartow County Historical Records further state, “One local resident remembers going to the theatre on Saturday afternoons, when area farmers came to town to trade, and after conducting their business, to watch silent movies. This local resident, only a small, barefoot child at the time, remembered the slippery theatre floor which resulted from the tobacco spitting farmers!”

Various doctors, lawyers, insurance agents and even the local telephone office also occupied the building at various points during the first half of the 20th century. In the 1940s the Belk Gallant Company leased the building, remodeled the interior, and added the display windows and tiles to the exterior. Many people still call the building the “old Belk building” today despite the fact that there were many tenants before Belk. Belk was replaced in the 1960s by Maxwell furniture, then Impact Furniture, and then Badcock Furniture.

In 1998 Ron Goss, Jr. purchased the building, and renamed it the Bradley building, as the building had once been known at the turn of the century when it was owned by H.T. Bradley. Mr. Goss won a state level economic revitalization award and a state preservation award for his restoration work on the building. A portrait studio, various lawyers, insurance agents, and governmental agencies then rented the building.

In 2007, Perrotta, Cahn & Prieto, P.C. purchased the building from Ron Goss, Jr. and began another revitalization of the building, making it into its new Cartersville office.
 

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