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Commercial Building (Savannah Bank and Trust Company)

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1911, Mowbray and Uffinger; 1973–1975 addition, Pietro Belluschi, consultant to Thomas E. Stanley and Associates. 2 E. Bryan St.

The Savannah Bank and Trust Company was established in 1869 in the wake of several post—Civil War bank failures. Its headquarters, at fifteen stories, remains Savannah’s tallest downtown skyscraper, yet it occupies a single 60 × 90–foot lot. The architects dramatized the conventional tripartite composition with a three-story white marble base and an unadorned middle section and ornate top floors, both upper sections clad in glazed white terra-cotta. In 1950, the bank acquired the Citizens Bank and Trust Company, making it one of the leading financial institutions in Savannah. Prominent modernist architect Belluschi assisted with the design of the limestone addition, which reflects the sleek minimalism of the 1970s. The adjacent Federal-style house at 24–26 E. Bryan Street (1824, attributed to Amos Scudder) is the sole reminder of the residential character of this square through the mid-nineteenth century.

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 (Savannah Bank and Trust Company)", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-2.7.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 37-38.

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