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Susannah R. Clarke House

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1801–1808. 517 E. York St.

About thirty feet wide, the Clarke House is an asymmetrical, one-story, central-hall cottage with a loft lit by a single dormer. The roof, originally wooden shingles, is now covered with standing-seam metal. On the adjoining lot to the east, the Edward White House (1812) is similar but smaller. Smaller yet, the John Dorsett House across the square (1845; 536 E. State Street) was moved to its present site from Crawford Ward and of the three houses most closely approximates the size, and even the intense color, of the colony’s earliest houses, such as those appearing in the famous Gordon View print of 1734 (see page 6).

Writing Credits

Author: 
Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler
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Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Susannah R. Clarke House", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-4.16.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 87-88.

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