Schley County Courthouse

Ellaville's county courthouse, completed in 1899 for roughly $15,000, is a two-story brick building in the Romanesque style, trimmed with stone and pressed metal. Golucke & Stewart designed it and Algernon Blair served as contractor. A hipped roof with intersecting gables covers the rectangular block, and a central two-stage clock tower rises to an open belvedere and pyramidal cap with clock dormers. Round-arched and rectangular windows are used on both floors, and a stringcourse separates them. Matching pedimented pavilions flank a projecting one-story entrance porch with a round-arched door, and the upper pavilions hold triple blind arcades. Inside, a pressed metal ceiling survives over the courtroom balcony, though the main courtroom ceiling is covered with acoustical tile. The design resembles other courthouses by J. W. Golucke in Union, Henry, Baker and Jones counties, which share a cross plan, tall capped clock towers and repeated arches. It was listed as part of a statewide group of Georgia courthouses and is called the finest building in Ellaville.