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Ben Hill County Jail
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Ben Hill County Jail (2015)
Location	Pine St., Fitzgerald, Georgia
Coordinates	31°42′50″N 83°14′59″W / 31.71388°N 83.24986°W / 31.71388; -83.24986
Area	less than one acre
Built	1909
Built by	Manly & Lamon Construction Co.
Architect	MacEachron, J. Reginald
Architectural style	Romanesque
MPS	County Jails of Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, and Turner Counties TR;Georgia County Courthouses TR
NRHP reference No.	82002383
Added to NRHP	August 26, 1982

The Ben Hill County Jail is a historic building in Fitzgerald, Georgia, located on Pine Street. It was built in 1909 in the Romanesque style, the first jail in the 1906-created county. It was designed by J. Reginald MacEachron, selected by a design competition in which 14 architects submitted proposals for the county's courthouse and jail. It is two stories high on a raised basement. It originally had an elaborately corbeled battlemented tower, but it was shortened between 1920 and 1935. The south entrance leads to the sheriff's living quarters which was used by the sheriff and his family until the 1950s. It was used until not too long before 1982.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Ben Hill County, Georgia

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Haley Blanchard (c. 1982). "Georgia Architectural and Historic Properties Survey-Inventory: Ben Hill County Jail". National Park Service. Retrieved January 17, 2017. with eight photos from 1981

External links

• [REDACTED] Media related to Historic Ben Hill County Jail at Wikimedia Commons

• Fitzgerald, Georgia micropolitan area
• Jails on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state)
• Buildings and structures in Ben Hill County, Georgia