Butts County GaArchives News.....Butts County’s New $25,000.00 Court House Which is Now Being Erected March 4, 1898
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Jackson Argus – Butts County March 4, 1898
Work has now commenced on our new court house in dead earnest and about fifty 
workmen are engaged in laying the foundation and getting ready for the brick 
work which will be begun early part of next week and pushed forward as speedily 
as possible.

Under the supervision of Messrs. McKenzie and Taber, we may congratulate 
ourselves in knowing than Butts will have one of the neatest and best equipped 
court houses in all its appointments of any in the state.

Besides doing contract work for numbers of the leading firms and corporations 
of the South, Messrs. Mr. McKenzie  are the builders of Dublin’s new temple of 
justice, a court house whose beauty and elegance has merited and received the 
praise and admiration of nearly every resident of South Georgia and we have 
been informed by Mr. McKenzie that our building will surpass in may respects 
even that of Dublin.

Mr. Bishop, of Atlanta, who was given the contract for the rock work, has a 
large force of hands now engaged in laying the foundation, and as soon as his 
work is complete the walls will be reared sky ward by a skilled force of brick 
masons under the supervision of Messrs. McKenzie.  

The excavation has been made for a basement wherein will be stored the heating 
machinery and lighting apparatus for the building.  The rock being used in the 
foundation work is being gotten out at Cedar Rock near Jackson and is a find 
specimen of stone and fills all the  requirements of the building contract.

The Court house will be provided with four entrances and a wide hall will 
extend from each entrance entirely through the building.

The tower will front toward the south east corner of the square, and will be 
built almost entirely of rock.  An elegant clock with four large dials will be 
placed in the tower, the estimate cost of the clock alone will amount to some 
$600.00 or $700.00

Mr. John Stone, a native of France, and a supervisor of national reputation has 
been sent to Jackson and will superintend the work in the absence of Mr. Bruce, 
architect of the building.  He is well versed in all details of the building, 
and gives it as his opinion that Jackson will have one of the best court 
building of any town of its size in the south.  From the above cut of the 
building, which is a reproduction of the original drawing made by Mr. Bruce, 
architect of the building, it will be seen that when completed our new court 
house will present a most imposing appearance thoroughly in keeping with the 
metropolitan city of which it is a conspicuous part.

The new court house will be provided with a perfect system of sewage, but the 
contract only provides that the contractor shall connect the sewage of the 
building with that of the city and as in this instance, the city is without a 
sewage system  , it will devolve upon the county to devise some means of 
disposing of the water after it leaves the building.  

It is proposed to furnish the building with the best furniture, carpeting, 
etc., that can be had, and so far as regards the interior of the building it 
will rival, if not outclass, the court buildings of either Macon or Atlanta.  
It is estimated that in expenditure of from $4000 to $5,000 will be required to 
furnish the building throughout, and the people of Butts County will cause to 
feel proud of their investment.


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