Ben Hill County Jail
Fitzgerald, United States
Not open to the public
On private land.
The Ben Hill County Jail is a Romanesque Revival building on Pine Street in Fitzgerald, Georgia, completed in 1909 as the county's first jail. Designed by J. Reginald MacEachron after a design competition in which 14 architects submitted proposals, it is two stories over a raised basement. Its original corbeled, battlemented tower was shortened between 1920 and 1935. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
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- Type
- prison
- Heritage
- National Register of Historic Places listed place
- Place
- Fitzgerald, United States
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