Among the most unique of Georgia’s remaining old hotels, the Samuel Elbert has been a fixture on Elberton’s beautiful town square for 90 years. After a much-needed and long-awaited restoration, the Samuel Elbert Hotel reopened in 2017.
Elberton Commercial Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Over the years, it has been suggested that this was a Phillips 66 or a Pure Oil filling station. I tend to believe it was Pure Oil, but cannot confirm. The Tudor Revival style was used by several petroleum retailers during the golden age of roadside travel in the 1930s and 1940s, including Phillips 66 and Pure Oil. This building has obviously been modified, and likely has had a chimney removed. I assigned it a date circa 1940 as an average, since the style was popular in the 1930s and 1940s.