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Commercial Building (Atlantic Coastline Railroad Company Administrative Offices)

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1926, Dwight P. Robinson and Company, engineers. 601 E. Liberty St.

A testament to the prominence of the rail yard complex once lining East Broad Street, this four-story Colonial Revival railway office, veneered in brick and stone over a reinforced concrete frame, served as the Catholic diocese of Savannah Pastoral Center from 1989 to 2015. The building is now vacant and awaits new use. Equally impressive as the building is the large swath of former railroad yard now occupied by the East Broad Street School (1990) and Mother Matilda Beasley Park, named in honor of Georgia’s first black nun. The house she lived in from the mid-1880s until her death in 1903, originally located at 1511 Price Street, was moved here in 2014.

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, "Commercial Building (Atlantic Coastline Railroad Company Administrative Offices)", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-9.2.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 172-172.

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