This Mystery Photo of today is obviously a lighthouse, which has certain telling characteristics. Your job is to tell us the story of this lighthouse, and where it is located. Send your idea to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.
The most recent Mystery was solved by several. Lou Camerio, Lilburn, said: “This is the Old or Historic Cherokee County Courthouse. Built in 1928.” The photo came from Wikipedia.
Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.: added: “It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. The previous courthouse was destroyed in a fire in March 1927. The new one was a five-story Neoclassical Revival building that dominates over Canton’s public square. It is significant architecturally in part because it is one of few courthouses in Georgia made of local marble. It was designed by architect A. Ten Eyck Brown (1878-1940). There was a master sculptor, Jimmy Watt, who supervised other sculptors including David Ashe Herschel Couch and B. Maloni who carved the four eagles above the front portico.”
Other readers recognizing it included Raleigh Perry, Buford; Stew Ogilvie, Lawrenceville; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex.
- SHARE A MYSTERY PHOTO: If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Send to: elliott@brack.net and mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
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