1950, Helfrich, Grantham, Ritzert Associated Architects. 109 Brandywine Rd.
This midcentury home is Savannah’s most horizontally stretched ranch house, with its powerful projecting eave over a subtly modulated facade with a slightly projecting stucco bay, set-back walls of vertical board-and-batten, and a massive Tennessee quartzite chimney stack marking the slightly recessed entrance. Varying lengths of clerestory ribbon windows slice along the upper edges of walls and alternate with a larger window wall serving the kitchen. A terraced treatment of floors defines interior spatial arrangements, while wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors seem to embrace the large wooded lot and allow admiring views of the house’s L-shaped plan.