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Chattahoochee County Jail

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Area
  
less than one acre

Built by
  
Pauly Jail Co.

Opened
  
1902

Added to NRHP
  
13 March 1986

Built
  
1902

NRHP Reference #
  
86000368

Architectural style
  
Romanesque architecture

Chattahoochee County Jail

Location
  
Mt. Olive and Boyd Sts., Cusseta, Georgia

Chattahoochee County Jail is a historic jail in Cusseta, Georgia. It was constructed in 1902 and opened in 1911. The jail replaced a two-story log jail built in 1855. It was built with some aspects of Romanesque architecture style. It was used until 1975. The jail was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It is located on Mt. Olive Street and Boyd Street.

It has been described as having features (brick construction, compact massing, simple detailing, and allusions to medieval architectural styles) that are characteristic of the many county jails built at the turn of the 20th century in Georgia. The two-story brick jail was built for $5,000 by the Pauly Jail and Manufacturing Company of St. Louis, Missouri.

It was being restored by the Chattahoochee County Historic Preservation Society.

It was deemed to be "a good example of a building built to be a county jail in a small county seat."

References

Chattahoochee County Jail Wikipedia


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