Not for sale: 116-year-old building in Augusta advertised for sale is now off the market

Joe Hotchkiss, Augusta Chronicle
Updated ·2 min read
The Mrs. T.R. Maxwell Building, on the 1200 block of Broad Street in Augusta, was built in 1907 and remodeled in 2013.
The Mrs. T.R. Maxwell Building, on the 1200 block of Broad Street in Augusta, was built in 1907 and remodeled in 2013.

A century-old building in downtown Augusta that was advertised online for sale Wednesday is no longer for sale.

The real estate website Crexi posted an ad July 29 among its "for sale" properties for the Mrs. T.R. Maxwell Building, 1246 Broad St. The ad has since been updated to say the property is no longer for sale.

The property's current owner "was very much just putting out a 'feeler' to test the interest of the market, limited to the Crexi platform for a brief period of time," Realtor Ben Harrison noted with The Augusta Chronicle in an email on Thursday.

The bottom floor of the building has a commercial tenant, Fireplace Kitchens and Grills. The upper floors have been converted into 12 loft apartments, though the building has had rooms to rent since it was completed in 1907.

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During construction of the building, a carpenter named Joseph Wilkins fell 45 feet from a skylight to the building’s ground floor. According to local newspaper accounts, Wilkins broke no bones and no further injuries were reported.

“The fact that the young man was not crushed to death against the uncompleted floor of the building is regarded by those who saw the accident as remarkable and almost unprecedented,” according to the Aug. 19, 1907, edition of the Augusta Herald.

Ground-floor tenants in the building over the years includes motorcycle shop R.L. Sumerau and Sons, from 1925 to 1955. A faded advertisement for Dixie Furniture Co. painted on the building’s outer south wall dates to when another business, Eubanks Brothers Furniture, sold mid-market Dixie brand furniture there.

The building was designed by Augusta architect Lewis Ford Goodrich, whose other designs include Augusta’s Fire Station No. 1 on Ellis Street, and the courthouses for Burke, Jenkins, Washington and Taliaferro counties. All of those buildings are still standing and occupied.

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