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Herschel V. Jenkins United Way Building (Thomas Gamble Hall)

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1941. 428 Bull St.

Although it was criticized for being poorly proportioned by architect and urban planner Edmund Bacon in his book, Design of Cities (1967), this modest brick building, constructed to house science laboratories and lecture halls for Armstrong Junior College, exemplifies the civic spirit of the trust lot, politely addressing the public square with its semicircular portico. The lot was previously occupied by the Gothic Revival First Presbyterian Church of 1872, whose congregation was the first to leave downtown Savannah for the suburbs, eventually building a new church at 520 Washington Avenue in 1956.

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, "Herschel V. Jenkins United Way Building (Thomas Gamble Hall)", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-8.34.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 160-160.

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