This was likely a bank. Most marble and granite clad buildings I’ve documented in Georgia have been banks.
Shellman Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Marble-Front Bank, 1900, Shellman
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looks a lot like the abandoned one in Tennille!
Yessir. A bank from 1900 the building says. Beautiful work.
I haven’t been through there in decades, since singing with a youth group at many area churches… This episode made me take a Google Street View tour of all the areas we visited way back when.