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Lafayette Condominiums (Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company Building)

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1928, Hentz, Adler and Shutze; 1954 expansion, Shutze and Armistead; 1985 conversion. 321 Abercorn St.

Occupied first by the city jail and then by the grand house of Octavus Cohen, this trust lot was acquired by Bell Telephone in 1928 for use as a switching station and offices. Schutze’s muscular but graceful Georgian Revival mid-rise building demonstrates the telephone company’s commitment to civic architecture in the early twentieth century. The building originally faced Drayton Street and covered only the western two-thirds of the lot, but was seamlessly expanded in 1954 to its present size. In 1985 condominium developers Lafayette Square Corporation acquired the building and, remarkably, excavated an underground parking garage.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler
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What's Nearby

Andrew Low House
Lafayette Square
William Battersby House
Eliza Jewett House
Desoto Hilton Hotel and Condominiums (Desoto Hilton Hotel and Citizens and Southern Bank)

Citation

Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Lafayette Condominiums (Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company Building)", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-8.16.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 147-148.

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