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City of Savannah Community Planning and Development (Abercorn Medical Center)

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1968–1969. 2203 Abercorn St.

Massed as a series of squat pavilions, this modernist single-story white brick building by Brittain Construction demonstrates subtle decorative and spatial features. The offset pavilions energize the lot with their staggered arrangement, varying the distance from the sidewalk, an effect enhanced by perforated concrete-block screens framing the corners and the midpoint of the verandas. Above, a shallow-pitched roof turns into a low mansard roof. Decoratively, the long flat Roman split-face white brick is laid in running bond set off by slightly projecting pilasters of the same bricks, which provide rhythm and order.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler
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Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "City of Savannah Community Planning and Development (Abercorn Medical Center)", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-12.9.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 211-212.

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