Question: The Griffin Auto Company Building is named after the company that is in what region of the US?

Context articles: Overland Waterloo Company Building
8 West Third Street
North Carolina
Griffin Auto Company Building
Callowhill Industrial Historic District
Hughes-Irons Motor Company
Herring Motor Car Company Building
Fore Shoe Company Building
Four Wheel Drive
Old Fellwock Auto Company

The Overland Waterloo Company Building is a historic building located in Waterloo, Iowa, United States.
 Built in 1916 by the Corn Belt Auto Company, the four-story, brick structure housed the Northeast Iowa distributorship for Willys-Overland Motors.
 Designed by Waterloo architect Clinton P. Shockley, it features brick and terra cotta pilasters, terra cotta plaques with swag motif, molding, and a balconet.
 The first floor housed the sales offices and a service garage.
 The second floor was occupied by a clubroom/lounge, a display room for used cars, a battery-charging room, a workroom, stockroom, shop and employees' room.
 The third and fourth floors were used to store automobiles to be delivered to dealers and customers.
 Corn Belt lost their distributorship by way of a corporate restructuring in 1921, but maintained an Overland dealership here until 1927 when they moved to a different building.
 The building housed other automobile related business until 1955.
 In that year KWWL radio and KWWL-TV moved into the main floor and other businesses occupied the other floors.
 Black Hawk Broadcasting Company, which owned the stations, converted the entire building for use as a broadcast facility in 1965.
 The building continues to function for that purpose.
 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
8 West Third Street is a 126 ft nine-story skyscraper in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, also known as the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company Building.
 It was built in 1911 as the headquarters of Wachovia Bank and Trust, with the ninth floor added in 1917.
 It was Winston-Salem's first steel frame skyscraper, built in the Renaissance Revival style, and it was the city's tallest building from 1911 until the O'Hanlon Building was built in 1915, and again from 1917 until the completion of Hotel Robert E. Lee in 1921.
 The Wachovia Bank and Trust Company Building served as the bank's headquarters until a new headquarters was built in 1966.
 It was named to the National Register of Historic Places on May 31, 1984, as "Wachovia Bank and Trust Company Building".
North Carolina ( ) is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.
 The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.
 North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the U.S. states.
 The state is divided into 100 counties.
 The capital is Raleigh.
 The most populous municipality is Charlotte, which is the third largest banking center in the United States after New York City and San Francisco.
The Griffin Auto Company Building is a historic automobile sales and service facility at 117 East Locust Street in El Dorado, Arkansas.
 It is a single story structure built out of reinforced concrete, with a full basement.
 The main floor housed the sales and showroom area, and the service area was in the basement.
 The building also includes a filling station area, which is the most decorative portion of the otherwise utilitarian structure.
 This area has pilastered columns that frame the automobile entry area, and the walls above the shelter entrance is decorated with bands of terra cotta and brick ornamentation.
 The Griffin Auto Company was established by three brothers from North Carolina, beginning as a livery stable business in 1899 before branching out into the new world of the automobile in 1915.
 They moved out of the building in 1960, since when it has been used by a variety of other sales-oriented businesses.
Callowhill Industrial Historic District is a national historic district located in the Callowhill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
 It encompasses 31 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structure.
 The commercial and industrial buildings were mostly built from the 1890s through the 1930s.
 They range from 4 to 14-stories in height and the exteriors are of brick, concrete, terra cotta, and stone.
 Most of the buildings are characterized as box-shaped, mid-rise loft buildings with flat roofs.
 Also in the district are 11, 2 12-story brick rowhouses, with the earliest dated to the 1830s.
 Notable buildings include the Rebman Building (1903), Stewart Cracker Building (c. 1900), U.S. Tire Company Building (1911), Lasher Building (1927), Philadelphia City Morgue (1928), and Overland Motor Company Building (1910, c. 1940).
 Located in the district and listed separately are the Smaltz Building (1912), Terminal Commerce Building, Goodman Brothers and Hinlein Company, and the Packard Motor Corporation Building.
The Hughes-Irons Motor Company is a historic building located in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States.
 Floyd Hughes and George Irons established an automobile sales and service business selling Ford cars and tractors.
 They built the eastern six bay section of this building in 1917.
 The two-story brick structure exhibits elements of the Mission Revival style.
 Irons left the partnership three years later and was replaced by Parmer.
 Hughes-Parmer added the four western bays in 1923, before the business split into two different companies.
 Parmer maintained the Ford dealership in the original building and Hughes opened a Chevrolet dealership in the addition.
 Parmer was replaced by the Atlantic Auto Company in 1930.
 They were the first in a long line of automobile repair shops and dealerships that occupied the original section of the building.
 Hughes remained in the addition until 1979, although they expanded into the neighboring building to the west in 1944.
 Restoration of the building began in 2008, reversing the alterations done to its main facade.
 The local chamber of commerce occupies the main floor, and the second floor was converted into apartments.
 The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
The Herring Motor Car Company Building, also known as 10th Street Lofts, is an historic building located in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, United States.
 The building is a six-story brick structure that rises 90 ft above the ground.
 It was designed by the Des Moines architectural firm of Proudfoot, Bird & Rawson in the Classical Revival style.
 Clyde L. Herring had the building built in 1912 and it was completed the following year.
 It was originally a four-story building and two more floors were added 18 months after it was originally built.
 By 1915 the company was building 32 Ford automobiles a day, and had delivered “more automobiles than any other one automobile agency in the United States”.
 Along with the neighboring Standard Glass and Paint Company Building it is part of the same loft apartment complex.
 The National Biscuit Company Building on the other side of the building has also been converted into an apartment building.
 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
Fore Shoe Company Building, also known as the Washington Shoe Company Building and Kane Dunham & Kraus Shoe Company Building, is a historic shoe factory building located at Washington, Franklin County, Missouri.
 The original section was built in 1925, and is a two-story, reinforced concrete and wood beam structure sheathed in brick.
 A two- and three-story brick addition was built in 1927, and is of steel frame construction.
 The building features a prominent brick smoke stack and measures approximately 58,000 square feet of floor space.
 The factory closed in 1971.
The Four Wheel Drive Auto Company, more often known as Four Wheel Drive (FWD), was a pioneering American company that developed and produced all-wheel drive vehicles.
 It was founded in 1909 in Clintonville, Wisconsin, as the Badger Four-Wheel Drive Auto Company by Otto Zachow and William Besserdich.
The Old Fellwock Auto Company is a building built in 1923 in fine Prairie School style.
 It was designed by Shopbell & Company and by Edward J. Thole (who became a partner at Shopbell & Company).