Our second look at Tifton.

The not-so-good sign: the inevitable antique store downtown in a store that was once a thriving merchant.

A small local merchant, once, but what? I'd say a local variety store, but the metal screen usually indicates clothing or something fashionable.

Say no more!

Everyone knew what that meant.

Although usually they had a name block to say MASONIC TEMPLE.

That’s nice. Wonder what it looked like when it had all its bulbs. (Which sounds like an insult in the sign community. Well, he's got some empty sockets that could use a bulb)

SHEPHERD & MAYNARD 1895.

The sign isn’t connected to the building.

And it’s not going anywhere. Rather lame 50s rehab, it must be said; the letters make it look a bit cheap.

30s / 40s rehab on the corner.

The windows betray its earlier origins. Not bad, though. Spiffed up the corner.

YOWZAHS

Wait - hold on.

Same architect, no doubt. And he probably did the boring one on the right, too. Why so severe?

Say as long as you’re in town, and you’ve already done two, think you could dash off one for me?

So many Merle Normans scattered around the small towns of the country.

Looks stucco’d over. Nicely preserved . . .

. . . but empty.

Okay, that’s different.

I’ve never seen this in the Commercial Style. Were those residences? Offices with porches?

Fantastic Doric-columned bank, but . . .

. . . that type of creepy-crawly marble always makes me a bit uneasy.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it had been a bank, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the columns were wood.

Off-the-shelf minor adornment. A miracle that the little vases have survived all these years.

I suppose it’s something of a respectful rehab, but it still looks worse than what the building must have originally had. I don't know why they could never get it right.

Perhaps an attempt to undue an unwise 50s / 60s rehab?

Untouched.

One of those examples that lets you relive exactly the look of the street a hundred years ago.

And it was?

The Golden Hardware Co.

A bit frilly, but not outside of the bounds of the style.

And the courthouse decorations include . . .

Fasces! Don’t worry, no one will make the connotation in a hundred years. They won’t even know.