Douglasville Office

Attorneys Rob Coats and Randy Cordle purchased and began renovation of 6722 Broad Street in December of 2004, moving into the building in June of 2005. Their renovation efforts were rewarded by being named as a finalist for Building Restoration of the year in Georgia in 2006.

The old storefront building was built in 1913 to house a General Store that served Douglasville for over 50 years. In an effort to keep the openness of the original structure, yet wanting it to have a professional look, the attorneys redesigned the 3,000-square foot building interior in a style designers call "retro modern". This style harkens back to the sleek straight lines of the mid-twentieth century. The few interior walls they installed are mostly made of glass.

Despite the renovation however, most of the original structure remains, like the shell of the building, which, inside and out, is made of the original 1913 brick. The flooring is the original heartwood pine, as are the huge support beams that run throughout the building.

Marietta Office

In 2008 Rob Coats acquired the historic Bostwick-Fraser house, located at 199 Frasier Street, near the square in Marietta. By 2009, he completed renovations and the conversion of the house into a law office. In the book The First Hundred Years, a Short History of Marietta, author Sarah Gober Temple regarded the Bostwick-Fraser house as one of the two most historically interesting houses in Marietta, and it is one of two structures in Cobb County listed in the Historic American Buildings survey. Margaret Mitchell, perhaps on Mrs. Temple's recommendation, is said to have suggested it to David O. Selznick as a possible model for Tara, as it is an excellent representative of the Greek Revival in upcountry Georgia. Although it did not make Gone with the Wind, it became the setting of Eugenia Price's novel Beauty from Ashes, with its real life wartime owner as its heroine. The house was built around 1844 by Marietta merchant Charles Bostwick. In the early 1850s the house was purchased by Ann Couper Fraser, daughter of John Couper, owner of the famous Cannon's Point Plantation on St. Simon's Island. One of Mrs. Fraser's daughters, Fanny, was a nurse with the Confederate army and served also as a secret agent, supplying information about Federal troop movements and carrying dispatches. When Sherman's army occupied Marietta in 1864, the lower floor and grounds of the Fraser house became a hospital for wounded soldiers, with the family confined to the upper floor. Until recently, the house and remaining grounds were owned and lived in by descendants of Ann Fraser.

VININGS/CUMBERLAND OFFICE

To meet the needs of their growing in-town Atlanta clientele, Coats and Cordle opened an office overlooking the Chattahoochee River in the Cumberland/Vinings area. The office is conveniently located near I-75, I-285, Northside Drive and Cumberland Parkway, and 10 minutes from the heart of Buckhead.