The Rabinowitz Building is a historic building in
Alma, Georgia
Bacon County Courthouse
Alma is a city in Bacon County, Georgia, United States, and the county seat. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 3,433.
Alma is known as Georgia's blueberry capital, and hosts a Blueberry Festival each ...
. It was built in 1915 and is located at 203-205 West Eleventh Street. It is a good example of a commercial, multi-use building in a small town. It is unusual as it uses glazed bricks on the front and has an ornamented metal cornice, which seems to have been a specialty of Manning Sullivan, a local builder.
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The building was used in commerce by William Rabinowitz (1873-1935), a Jewish immigrant. His residence was at the rear of the building. It is also significant in that the second floor was used as the original county courthouse from 1915 (one year after the formation of the county) until a new courthouse (the Bacon County Courthouse
The Bacon County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse on Main Street in Alma, Bacon County, Georgia. It was designed by architect J. J. Baldwin and completed in 1920.National Register of Historic Places
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on June 27, 1987.
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Buildings and structures in Bacon County, Georgia
Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state)
Commercial buildings completed in 1915