You are here

Savannah » Downtown » Between Liberty and Gaston Streets » Chatham Ward » Pepe Hall, SCAD (Barnard Street School)

Pepe Hall, SCAD (Barnard Street School)

-A A +A
1906, Gottfried L. Norrman; 2001 roof replaced; 2009 renovated and restored, Dawson Architects. 212 W. Taylor St.

The first Barnard Street School, built in 1847, faced Barnard Street and occupied only one tything lot. The 1906 building that replaced it faces Taylor Street straddling all three lots of this tything block. The Mediterranean Revival school features a battered basement, tapered central tower, and tall hipped red-tile roof (the current tiles are modern replicas). Following a German elementary school model, it has lateral double-loaded corridors. During the twentieth century, the Board of Education enclosed the grand symmetrical interior staircases in the interest of fire prevention. SCAD acquired the building in 1988 and dramatically restored the interior in 2009, reopening the staircases and the interior ventilation windows between the classrooms and hallways and returning the building to its airy original state, as well as adding a rear elevator for handicapped accessibility.

Writing Credits

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

Data

What's Nearby

Gordon Block
Pulaski Square
Pulaski House, SCAD (Jewish Educational Alliance)
Mercer Williams House (General Hugh Weedon Mercer House)
Charles Rogers Houses

Citation

Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Pepe Hall, SCAD (Barnard Street School)", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-8.47.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 167-167.

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.

,