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Christ Church Parish House (Leroy Myers Cigar Company)

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1911, Henrik Wallin; 1955 addition. 18 Abercorn St.

Wallin’s fanciful Mediterranean-style cigar factory, maker of Regalos Cigars, originally featured a balconied belvedere crowning the corner tower, removed sometime after 1960. The building reflects the shift of this area by the early twentieth century from residential to port-related activities. Christ Church acquired the building in 1954, adding the Bland Tucker Building to the north a year later. A weather vane from the twelfth-century All Saints Church in Cranham, Essex, England (where Oglethorpe and his wife, Elizabeth, are buried in the chancel), was installed atop the roof in 1967.

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, "Christ Church Parish House (Leroy Myers Cigar Company)", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-2.15.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 43-43.

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