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St. Philip Monumental African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church

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1911, John Anderson Lankford; 1960s parsonage. 613 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

For many years the largest black church in Savannah, this monumental exercise in Romanesque Revival seats 1,400 and was the setting for black high school commencements and town hall meetings prior to the completion of the Savannah Civic Center. Lankford was supervising architect for the AME denomination, active throughout the United States and South Africa. One of the first African American architects to be licensed in Virginia (only two years after licensing began in that state in 1920) and the first architect to be licensed in the District of Columbia in 1924, he specialized in church, fraternal, and school designs and published Artistic Churches and Other Designs in 1916. In 1997 the parsonage was converted into an education center.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler
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Citation

Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "St. Philip Monumental African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-11.3.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 198-199.

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