You are here

Savannah » Downtown » Between Liberty and Gaston Streets » Lafayette Ward » William Battersby House

William Battersby House

-A A +A
c. 1852. 119 E. Charlton St.

Andrew Low’s business partner, English cotton trader Battersby, built this rare example of a Charleston single house in Savannah, featuring a “false” front door that accesses a two-story side verandah facing a walled side yard and to which the central hall plan is oriented. True to its Charleston spirit, the house does not have an elevated basement in the Savannah manner. The Greek Revival street facade is, by contrast, opaque and severe. The carriage house behind was modified in 1971 to connect it to the main house.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler
×

Data

What's Nearby

Andrew Low House
Lafayette Condominiums (Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company Building)
Lafayette Square
Hamilton-Turner Inn (Samuel Pugh Hamilton House)
Eliza Jewett House

Citation

Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "William Battersby House", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-8.15.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 147-147.

If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.

SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.

,