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House

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1921–1922. 230 E. 50th St., Chatham Crescent

Situated on a sprawling corner lot overlooking McCauley Park, one of the four circles in Chatham Crescent, this house fulfills the suburban dream of being surrounded by green space. The Craftsman-style design boasts dramatically projecting eaves with angle brackets, and its deceptively compact mass is fronted by an extensive porch that extends westward to form a porte-cochere in a manner evoking Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie Style houses. The porch piers are constructed of rounded field stones, giving the house a strongly vernacular character. The west side and rear parts of the property are densely landscaped in contrast to the open front yard.

Writing Credits

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

Chatham Crescent
Harry Hays Lattimore House
Savannah Arts Academy (Savannah High School)
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Citation

Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "House", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-14.5.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 225-226.

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