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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.

Writing Credits

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Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler
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Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "House", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-20.4.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 275-275.

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