This house would be a great restoration project for someone.
Category Archives: Butler GA
Bill’s Beauty Supply & Food, Butler
This was an interesting combination.
Filed under --TAYLOR COUNTY GA--, Butler GA
Historic Bank Building, Butler
Butler Downtown Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Filed under --TAYLOR COUNTY GA--, Butler GA
Edwards Building, Butler
This old warehouse has been well integrated with the nearby storefronts.
Butler Downtown Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
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Main Street Storefronts, Butler
West Main Street
East Main Street
Butler Downtown Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
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Fickling Lodge No. 129, 1920, Butler
Note the ghost sign for the City Barber Shop on the right of the building.
Butler Downtown Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
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Southwestern Railroad Depot, 1868, Butler
Soon after its construction in 1868, the first depot at Butler burned but was immediately rebuilt within its surviving walls. The Southwestern Railroad was later absorbed into the Central of Georgia line.
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Taylor County Courthouse, 1935, & Police Station, Butler
Taylor County’s Neoclassical/Colonial Revival courthouse was funded by the Civil Works Administration, part of Roosevelt’s New Deal. Significantly, it was designed by Frederick Roy Duncan (1864-1947) an architect from nearby Columbus, known for work on the Gatun Power Plant on the Panama Canal in 1910, as well as public buildings in Columbus and various structures at Fort Benning. This courthouse replaced Taylor County’s first courthouse, on the same location. It was built in 1852 and stood until 1934, when it was torn down using convict labor.
A six-sided police station stands on the northwest corner of the courthouse grounds. These were once common features but are rarely seen today. I don’t know that I’ve seen another one in Georgia. I’ve seen a few in the Midwest, though.
National Register of Historic Places
Filed under --TAYLOR COUNTY GA--, Butler GA
