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The Masquerade is a mid-sized concert venue located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It comprises the interior and exterior grounds of a former excelsior mill on North Avenue in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood. The venue has both indoor and outdoor concert space, and the live music mostly consists of alternative music styles, such as Indie rock, Metal, Punk Rock, Rockabilly, and Electronic. The Masquerade's three principal interior stages are named after the destinations of the afterlife: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell.

The building was once the Dupre Excelsior Mill (the actual name as of 1911 was "Du Pree Manufacturing Company Excelsior Factory"),and may have been built as early as 1890 by DuPre (also spelled Du Pree) Manufacturing Company.However, the mill fails to appear on Atlanta city maps in 1892 and 1899, which both show the property as vacant. The first possible reference to the mill exist in the report of the death of Hubert Neal on July 17, 1899. According to the ...