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1857, attributed to Sholl and Fay. 102–130 E. Bay St.

These two rows of warehouses illustrate two strategies for dressing up the commercial fronts facing the city—cast iron (102–110) and granite (112–130)—and reflect the prosperity of the late 1850s. Fronting the buildings is one of the most impressive and densely packed sets of pedestrian bridges over the terraced lanes below. The bridges spanning Abercorn Ramp at the building’s east end are the longest and most dramatically sited on Savannah’s waterfront. The bridge crossing from Bay Street formerly spanned Drayton ramp on the site of the Cotton Exchange.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler
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What's Nearby

Solomon’s Masonic Lodge No. One (Savannah Cotton Exchange)
John P. Rousakis Riverfront Plaza
John Stoddard’s Upper Range Warehouses
Thomas Gamble Building (Kelly’s Block)
Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce (Hibernia Bank of Savannah)

Citation

Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Warehouses", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-1.5.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 25-25.

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