The Wiregrass Museum of Art is housed in a building that was the city's former power plant, a coal-fire plant built in 1913.
The new plant was built in 191213 and consisted of a powerhouse, garage and tool shed, cooling pond, coal yard, two pump houses, machine storage building, small tool shed, covered reservoir, substation, auxiliary reservoir, underground gasoline tank, two scales, a well, and two small office buildings. At the time, it was the only coal-fired power plant in the Wiregrass Region. The Wiregrass Museum of Art moved into the building in the early 1990s. 
