Frank M. Scarlett Federal Building

United States Post Office and Court House (Brunswick, Georgia)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	805 Gloucester Street, Brunswick, GA
Coordinates	31°09′01″N81°29′33″W / 31.15017°N 81.49237°W / 31.15017; -81.49237
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.

References

1. NPS.
2. Read, Frank T. "The Bloodless Revolution: The Role of the Fifth Circuit in the Integration of the Deep South". Mercer Law Review.
3. A bill to name the Federal building, U.S. Post Office, U.S. courthouse in Brunswick, Ga., as the "Frank M. Scarlett Federal Building"

External links

• Media related to Frank M. Scarlett Federal Building at Wikimedia Commons
• Historic Federal Courthouses page from the Federal Judicial Center
• Georgia Federal Buildings Archived 2012-03-22 at the Wayback Machine from the General Services Administration