
Fannin County Courthouse - Blue Ridge, GA
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N 34° 51.825 W 084° 19.620
16S E 744350 N 3861193
Quick Description: Historic courthouse is currently housing the Blue Ridge Mountains Arts Association (aka the Art Center)
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 6/25/2009 5:25:25 AM
Waymark Code: WM6N94
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Long Description:Erected - 1937
G.A. Curtis - Commissioner
Edwards and Sayward - Architects
Robert B. Logan - Associate
Beers-Collins Co. - Builders
The following information was taken from
(visit link)
The act creating Fannin County authorized the justices of the
county's inferior court to select a county seat and provide for
construction of a courthouse and other public buildings. Until such
action was taken, the act directed that county business and
elections take place at Joab Addington's Store. Fannin County's
first courthouse, a small wooden structure, was built in
Morgantown. Little is known about when, except that it reportedly
burned down. In 1895, the county seat was moved to the town of Blue
Ridge, where a two-story brick courthouse was built in 1895-96 (the
above website shows pictures of the building). The courthouse
burned in 1936, and a new courthouse was completed the following
year funded by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public
Works.
In 2000, Fannin County voters approved a special-purpose local
option sales tax to finance construction of a new courthouse and
jail complex next door to the 1937 courthouse. An architect was
selected in November 2000, with construction beginning the
following year. Construction of the new courthouse was completed
and the new building occupired in the spring of 2004. In July 2004,
theBlue Ridge Mountain Arts Association began leasing the old
courthouse, which was renamed The Georgia Mountain Center for the
Arts.