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Convent and Academy of St. Vincent DePaul

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1845, Charles B. Cluskey; 1855, 1869, c. 1955, and 1960 additions. 207 E. Liberty St.

Securely set about twenty feet behind an iron fence, the convent and academy occupy two tything lots granted by the City in 1842. Additions were made in 1855 and again in 1869, doubling the length of the original building. Cluskey’s stucco-covered brick building is sober yet sophisticated, with stripped-down colossal pilaster strips on the central and end pavilions and simplified Doric piers on the two one-story entrance porticoes. Between 1955 and 1960 a cluster of modernist structures was attached to the eastern edge of the academy (replacing the original Sisters’ Chapel), extending the building line the entire length of the tything and forming a courtyard on the rear.

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, "Convent and Academy of St. Vincent DePaul", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-8.20.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 149-150.

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