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Medical Arts Center

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1957, Thomas, Driscoll, and Hutton; 1984 additions, Hansen Architects; 1991 additions, Thomas and Hutton Engineering and Forrest R. Lott; 1993 additions, Forrest R. Lott. Bounded by 63rd, 65th, and Paulson sts., and Waters Ave.

The Medical Arts Center is a ten-acre landscaped complex of doctors’ offices built just west of Abreu and Robinson’s 1955 Memorial Medical Center. Drawing heavily on California’s Eichler Homes, the thirty modernist buildings feature low-pitched gable roofs with flared ends, wide overhanging eaves, and heavy exposed rafter beams. Details include textured pattern brick, board-and-batten siding, lattice screen brick walls, and open gable ends enclosed with glass. Many units share a covered entrance patio with built-in benches and plantings. Additional automobile-based professional and commercial services soon filled the area, including the immediately adjacent Medical Arts Shopping Center (1959) and the Professional Plaza Shopping Center (1962) at 5002 Paulsen Street.

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, "Medical Arts Center", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-20.1.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 273-274.

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