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Heritage Row Railroad Row Houses

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1890s; 2002 redevelopment, Martin Riley Associates with Hussey Gay Bell and Meyer and Associates. 602–642 W. 41st St. and 2415–2419 Burroughs St.

This ensemble of twenty-three wooden single-story side-gabled four-room houses makes up one of the most dramatic rows of worker housing in Savannah. Named Heritage Row as part of Mercy Housing, they are grouped into six buildings with varying numbers of units divided by narrow gaps, except at the center of the 41st Street block. There, a wider space allows a walkway to the gazebo at the center of the interior courtyard, to which all of the houses are oriented. Each house has a covered stoop and short side stair, following the pattern of taller stoops on elevated town houses downtown, with the stair orientation alternating to create a rhythmic effect. Norsouth Construction Corporation was the general contractor for the project.

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, "Heritage Row Railroad Row Houses", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-11.5.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 200-200.

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