A modern space, in a historic place.

The idea

Rome has venues for weddings on farms and meeting rooms in hotels, but very little in between. The RAD Venue exists for the everything-in-between: closings, baby showers, podcasts, board meetings, retirement parties, listening sessions, fundraisers, gallery nights, dance recitals, conference breakouts.

Eight rooms under one roof, designed to be rented separately by the hour or together for the day. A real-estate attorney can do a closing in the morning while a podcaster records in the next room. That night, the same building can host a 200-person reception with the loft set up for a VIP green room.

The building

The space draws its character from the same neighborhood that gives downtown Rome its postcard image — the Clocktower on its hill, the historic courthouse, the late-19th-century facades along Broad Street. We chose to keep the bones honest: exposed beams, original wood floors, full-height windows. Modern electronics and AV folded in quietly, not on display.

5th Avenue isn't an accident. It's the same street as the courthouse — the civic heart of Floyd County, and a working part of Rome's daily story.

The owner