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Lutheran Church of the Ascension

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1844, J. F. Posey; 1875 redesigned, George B. Clarke. 120 Bull St.

The Lutheran church and the neighboring courthouse (2.28) form one of the most engaging architectural pairings of trust-lot buildings and the diversity of architectural possibilities such prominent sites inspire. Initially established in 1741 at Ebenezer twenty-five miles northwest of Savannah, the congregation relocated to Savannah by 1771. In 1844 they erected a Greek Revival church on this site, whose walls were retained in a redesign of the building by Clarke (an amateur architect who worked for a local bindery company), modeled after a design for a “Village Church” in the “Romanesque style” in Samuel Sloane’s The Model Architect (1852, volume 1, design XIX).

Writing Credits

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

Chatham County Courthouse Annex (Chatham County Courthouse)
Lott and Barber (Standard Oil Station)
Cowart Insurance Group (Morris and Morris Law Firm)
Globe Shoe Company
Savannah Blueprint Company

Citation

Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Lutheran Church of the Ascension", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-2.29.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 55-55.

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