Elberton, Georgia, calls itself the "Granite Capital of the World" because the surrounding area's quarries have supplied America with granite for buildings and funereal monuments for decades. The town is nonethless built almost entirely of other materials, mostly brick (see well below). The buidling shown above is a rare exception, in that at least one of its walls consists of blocks of typical blue-gray Elberton granite (just below). The building is the Auld's Corner building, built in 1941 as part of a corner gasoline station at a site that the cornerstone suggests had been owned by the Auld family since 1870.
 

Elberton granite was used as an accent on the Elbert County Courthouse (below). However, most of the Courthouse is brick. In fact, the red look below is only the result of paint; Ed Jackson's photo shows a more attractive white or light gray courthouse.