The only warehouse on Savannah’s waterfront to rise three stories above Bay Street, this building is also the most elaborately decorated, with cast-iron shopfronts, window hood molds, bracketed cornice, and corner quoining. Kelly’s Block was commissioned by New York businessman Eugene Kelly to replace the near-identical warehouse he erected in 1869–1870, which was designed by Muller and Bruyn and destroyed in a fire in 1876, but omits the original curving mansard roof. Acquired in 1945 by the City as an annex for City Hall and promptly renamed after Thomas Gamble, mayor of Savannah from 1933–1937 and 1939–1945, the building contains municipal offices and a public library branch in these upper stories. Two of the longest metal bridges among the many in this area connect the building to the top of the bluff and provide a view of the starkly utilitarian stories below. Facing the Gamble Building on the south side of the ramp are four one-story Embankment Stores (1840–1842), rectangular brick enclosures with segmental barrel vaults and round-arched entrances. Possibly the first masonry stabilization of the bluff face, they were designed by Charles B. Cluskey as storage chambers for cotton awaiting shipment. He had a twenty-year lease for their use, but sold it after only one year. Recent archaeological excavations have disproved claims that the sites housed slaves.