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Augusta's Historic Sites
Historic
Cotton Exchange Welcome Center
The tall, red brick building at Eighth and Reynolds streets
in Augusta reeks of history. After all, it is a museum, a
testament to the huge cotton market in Augusta in the late
19th and early 20th centuries. But when cotton was king in
Augusta, Georgia and the South, the three-story building was
called the Augusta Cotton Exchange, where men (only) came
to trade the white gold.
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Sacred
Heart Cultural Center
A heartening and very spectacular example of a cherished piece
of architectural heritage, down on its luck, given a new lease
on life. Consecrated in 1901, the redbrick, twin-spired Romanesque
Catholic church summed up the highest skills of European artists.
Jewel-like tones of German stained-glass windows play against
the creamy white Italian marble columns, stations of the cross
and the ornate high altar. In the early 1970s, with much of
its congregation now in the suburbs, Sacred Heart's doors were
closed and the church deconsecrated and left to the mercy of
the elements and vandals.
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Ezekiel Harris House
Augusta's second-oldest structure. In 1797 Harris came to the
area from South Carolina with plans to build a town to rival
Augusta as a tobacco market. On a hill overlooking Augusta,
the house is an outstanding example of post-Revolutionary architecture.
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Imperial
Theatre
Built in 1917 after the devastating Augusta fire of the previous
year, The Imperial Theater hosted vaudeville in its early days,
as well as the original silent movies and later the first "talkies".
Today the theater is used for live stage performances and is
the artistic home of the Augusta Opera and the Augusta Ballet.
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Old
Medical College Building
Located on the 500 block of Telfair Street, the old Medical
College building was completed in 1835 and served as the first
medical school in Georgia. Designed in Greek Revival style by
nationally known architect Charles B. Cluskey, it served the
Medical College of Georgia until 1911 when the college moved
to Harper Street. Recently renovated, it now serves as a site
for community functions.
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