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Interstate-16, Montgomery Street Exit Ramp

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1963–1967. Spanning Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. between W. Taylor and W. Wayne sts.

The construction of I-16 and its Montgomery Street exit ramp necessitated the destruction in 1963 of one of the city’s landmarks, the Spanish Renaissance-style Savannah Union Station (1902, Frank P. Milburn; see page 16), jointly operated by the Seaboard Air Line Railway, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, and the Southern Railroad, consolidating all passenger service except for the nearby Central of Georgia passenger depot (7.1.1). This diagonal tract of land, which sits in juxtaposition to Savannah’s city grid, is a vestige of the diagonally oriented garden lots from Oglethope’s original plan. The station was built at 601 Cohen Street alongside Union Station’s train shed as the Southern Express Co. stables, with the long, low brick wall along the north side of Selma Street its only standing evidence. Since 1998, multiple studies and revitalization plans for Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard have proposed removing the I-16 flyover.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler
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Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum (Wage Earners Loan and Investment Company)
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Citation

Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Interstate-16, Montgomery Street Exit Ramp", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-7.4.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 133-134.

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