Designed for the owner of a local movie theater chain, Hampton brought the 1950s Sarasota School of Architecture, sometimes called “Florida Modern,” to Savannah. The flat roof, metal-and-glass curtain walls, large sliding glass doors, wood sunshades, raised floors with floating staircases, verandahs, and concrete patios merited a 1959 Architectural Review prize for “outstanding design in steel construction.”
Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Weis House", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-20.6.
Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 276-276.
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