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Camphor Cottage

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c. 1760–1767; 1871 raised with ground floor addition; 1907 remodeled with balcony added. 122 E. Oglethorpe Ave.

Possibly the oldest intact building in the city, this house began its life as a modest two-room residence one-and-a-half stories tall, typical of eighteenth-century Savannah. Its broad clapboard planks, informal fenestration, and small window panes attest to its early date, while the extension of the side-gabled roof at a gentler pitch above an attached rear shed followed the New England saltbox form. In 1871 the house was raised and a brick ground floor erected beneath to emulate an elevated town house, giving the building its distinctive dual character.

Writing Credits

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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, "Camphor Cottage", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-2.21.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 49-50.

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