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Commercial Building (Independent Life Insurance Company)

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1957–1959, Kemp, Bunch and Jackson. 906 Drayton St.

The Pape School, established in 1905 by Nina Anderson Pape, occupied an extravagant Second Empire mansion on this site until 1955 and formed the basis for the Savannah Country Day School established that same year, moving into its present facility on the city’s southside in 1960. The current building, occupied by the Independent Life Insurance Company until 1998, was designed by a member of a leading firm in Jacksonville, Florida, and displays a sophisticated play of abstract modernist volumes and planes that contrasts sharply with traditional, revivalist, and classical structures of its neighborhood.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler
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What's Nearby

Forsyth Park (Forsyth Place)
Confederate Soldiers Memorial
Mansion on Forsyth Park (Lewis Kayton House)
Forsyth Fountain
Telfair Arms Apartments (Telfair Hospital for Females)

Citation

Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Commercial Building (Independent Life Insurance Company)", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-10.17.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 189-190.

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