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Commercial Building (Hotel Savannah)

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1912, William L. Stoddart; 1919 rear addition; 1992 exterior restoration, Kolman and Smith, Architects. 32 Bull St.

Stoddart designed the two-hundred-room Hotel Savannah (later the Manger Hotel) in the Renaissance Revival style typical of urban hotels in which he specialized. The ten-story high-rise conforms to the Sullivan tripartite division of early skyscrapers with a two-story base, plain buff brick middle section, and ornate top area that is distinguished by the unusual use of colorful glazed terra-cotta. Only the rear portion of a planned one-hundred-room expansion, visible in historic postcards of the hotel, was carried out. The 1992 restoration involved stabilizing and replacing crumbling exterior elements.

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, "Commercial Building (Hotel Savannah)", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-2.3.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 35-35.

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