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Kehoe Iron Works

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1873–1883, with later additions; 2013–2015 machine shop and smithy renovation, Lominack Kolman Smith Architects. 656 E. Broughton St.

What began as the Phoenix Iron Works took its more familiar name when William Kehoe bought out his partner in 1883. Kehoe extended the main building on Broughton Street eastward, adding to the brick foundry and constructing a three-story entrance pavilion with a mansard roof and cupola and a two-story pattern shop. Several other buildings once occupied the factory campus of less than one acre. The only other extant structures, however, are the smithy and the basilica-shaped machine shop that abut the east end of the brick pattern shop. The impressive machine shop (before 1916) is a 165-foot-long, steel-framed structure clad with galvanized corrugated iron sheets and a long monitor roof. The Kehoe works relocated to a shipyard site during World War II.

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, "Kehoe Iron Works", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-4.2.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 78-79.

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