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Wormsloe Entrance Complex

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1891 allée; 1913 gate and 1917 gatehouse, E. Lynn Drummond; 1998 gatehouse restoration

George Wymberley Jones De Renne returned from Europe in 1891 to revive the family’s ancestral estate, and planted the signature 1.5-mile-long allée of more than 400 live oaks that same year. He took permanent possession of Wormsloe in 1893, and commissioned the arched entrance gate shortly before he died in 1916. The gatehouse was erected a year later. By 1998, when Sterling Builders and Restoration restored the building, termites had consumed half of its structural timbers, but left untouched its old-growth cypress cladding. The grounds opened to the public in the 1920s.

Writing Credits

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

Wormsloe Library (Wymberley Jones De Renne Library)
Noble Jones House
Wormsloe (Wormslow)
Wormsloe House
Wormsloe Historic Site

Citation

Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Wormsloe Entrance Complex", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-18.1.1.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 259-259.

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