This is one of Eastman’s finest extant commercial buildings, with a nice complement of what I presume to be Georgia granite, on the street side and on the quoins and window trimmings. It is known for its longtime tenant, the Citizens Clearing Bank, but that institution wasn’t established until 1934 and this structure is older than that.
My father, Sam Fussell, contacted the Georgia Chamber of Commerce in 1949, soliciting a recommendation for a Georgia town needing a hardware store. Their reply was Eastman, and so the year I was born, in 1950, he removed his family from Orlando, FL to this farming district and opened Fussell Hardware, which was right down the street from Citizen’s Clearing Bank and across the street from the cotton gin. The bank handled all of the hardware store’s banking needs, and the building , it appeared to me as a young child, was quite regal!
Fussell Hardware closed its doors for the last time in the spring of 1968. The store’s location is now an apartment complex.
Thanks Brian!
Joy Fussell Cavin
In the late 80’s, the second floor was used as a karate school owned by a man who’s name I can’t remember. I was a student of his and remember going there for lessons.
Brian:
Can I purchase this photograph?
Joey-I sent you an email.
This was the Citizens Clearing Bank. It’s now known as CB&T and is located on 5th Ave at College Street on the parcel was once home to the Lee Land Hotel.
There is a photo of the hotel here
http://www.pbase.com/jacksonville_ga/image/106673414