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‘There are several spirits that occupy the hotel’ - My Space: Huthmaker Family

2022-10-19T09:03:00

Roland's Workshop II

The violin-making family takes us on a tour of their Atlanta, GA, workshop

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We’ve been based at this workshop on the outskirts of Atlanta for the past ten years. Before we found this place we were in a suburban area and we wanted to find somewhere more historic. The building is the former Rhodes Hotel, built in 1880, so it’s fairly historic for this area. It was built next to the railway line as a place for trains to stop, and in the 1940s it was a favourite of Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind…

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