1959
Robert Bell builds his first home.
A young Robert Bell frames his first custom home in Hall County, Georgia. Nothing about the operation changes much over the next thirty years: small crew, owner on the lot, one project at a time.
The Build Journal · Chapter II · The Brothers
The Brothers Bell.
Ron and Reggie Bell have carried Bell Construction since their father Robert stepped back — building the same way, for the same kind of family, on the same ground. Northeast Georgia since 1959.
Our father Robert Bell started this company in 1959 with a simple rule — do the work right, and treat the people who hired you the way you'd want to be treated. He built homes for families across northeast Georgia for thirty-plus years with his own hands before handing us the keys.
We didn't rebrand when we took over. We didn't change the name on the trucks. We just kept doing what worked — being on the jobsite, answering the phone, and making sure the home we built was the home the client actually meant to draw up.
We don't build many homes in a year. Four, maybe five on a good year. That's on purpose. The number of projects we take is the number we can personally walk every week — not the number our capacity spreadsheet says we could handle.
If you've been told that's old-fashioned, you've been told wrong. It's just slower to scale. Sixty-seven years in, slow-to-scale looks a lot like still-here. And the families we built for in the 90s still have our number.
We're Ron and Reggie. Our father's name is on the shingle. His rule is still the rule. Nothing about that will change on our watch.
The Record
A company measured in decades.
Sixty-seven years. Two generations. One family. Here's the long version.
1970s
The Lake Lanier years.
Lake Lanier's shoreline starts filling in. Bell homes go up on lots that will belong to the same families fifty years later. Word-of-mouth takes care of the marketing department.
1992
Ron and Reggie join the company.
The sons come into the business — on the jobsite first, offices later. They learn every trade on the framing line before they ever sign a contract.
2008
Through the downturn — and still here.
When most local builders closed their doors, Bell Construction finished every project on its books. Not a single client was left holding an unfinished house.
2024
Still owner-operated. Still family-owned.
Ron and Reggie hand over keys on a fourth home in a single year — including two Lake Lanier waterfront builds and a Dahlonega ridgeline estate.
2026 →
Your lot. Our next chapter.
Still taking a small number of projects a year. Still on the jobsite every day. Still the same phone number — the one our father picked up.
67Years in Business
2Generations
5Counties Served
100%Owner-Operated
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