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Hugh Moss Comer House

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1880. 2 E. Taylor St.

The Comer House, built for the president of the Central of Georgia Railroad, is a late but fulsome example of the standard Savannah elevated town house with a full-height basement and parallel exterior stair married to a Charleston single house-inspired triple-height side gallery overlooking a side garden. The garden is especially remarkable because it adjoins a reciprocal garden belonging to the neighboring house at 10 E. Taylor Street (built for William Hunter in 1872), which nearly identically mirrors the Comer House design, including its own triple-height side gallery facing west.

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, "Hugh Moss Comer House", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-8.35.

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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