United States Post Office and Court House (Brunswick, Georgia) | |
Location | 805 Gloucester Street, Brunswick, GA |
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Coordinates | 31°09′01″N 81°29′33″W / 31.15017°N 81.49237°W |
Built | 1959 |
Architect | Francis Abreu and James Robeson |
Architectural style | Modern movement |
NRHP reference No. | 14000153 [1] |
Added to NRHP | April 15, 2014 |
The Frank M. Scarlett Federal Building is a federal building of the United States located at 805 Gloucester Street in Brunswick, Georgia. Completed in 1959, it houses both a United States Post Office and operations of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. In December 1973, Senator Herman Talmadge introduced a bill in the United States Congress to rename the facility for segregationist [2] district court judge Francis Muir Scarlett; this bill was passed into law on January 2, 1975. [3] The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. The east side of the building was remodeled in 2015-16.