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Skidaway Oceanographic Institute

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1967. 10 Ocean Science Cir., Skidaway Island

The Modena Plantation on Skidaway Island (so named in the mid-eighteenth century by John Milledge) passed through many owners before becoming a vacation spot and Black Angus beef farm for Robert and Dorothy Roebling in 1934. Combining donations of seven hundred and ninety acres from Dorothy Roebling and six hundred and thirty-five acres from the Union Camp Corporation, the Georgia General Assembly created the Skidaway Oceanographic Institute in 1967 to advance marine science. In 1971, the institute was transferred to the University System of Georgia. The growing investment in oceanographic research had direct implications for the design of the institute. The complex was planned to achieve unity between its three original parts: an educational institution, research center, and industrial development complex. The LEED Gold-certified Instructional Center (2010, Lord Aeck Sargent), the most recent of the institute’s forty buildings, combines plantation-era and modern architecture.

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, "Skidaway Oceanographic Institute", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-19.7.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 271-271.

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