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Madonna Hall

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1954–1955. 418 Habersham St.

Built in 1954 as Madonna Hall, this International Style building served as a nursing school and dormitory for St. Joseph’s Hospital until 1970. The building’s buff-brick six-story cubic massing is attached to a two-story entrance pavilion and education wing that matches the scale of the neighboring houses along E. Taylor Street. The dormitory features cantilevered concrete balconies on the Habersham (west) elevation and sun canopies on the south side shading horizontal bands of aluminum windows that illuminate the nurses’ rooms. A brick-walled courtyard completes the tything-lot site.

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, "Madonna Hall", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-8.26.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 154-155.

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