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Savannah High School

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1998, Hussey Gay Bell. 400 Pennsylvania Ave.

Built on the northern edge of the former defense housing site, this 265,000-square-foot building can accommodate 1,750 students. Seeking to recall the former Savannah High School (now Savannah Arts Academy, 14.6) on Washington Avenue, the architects used a “contemporary vernacular” (as they described it) of red brick and cast stone in a Classical Revival design. The entrance driveways frame a square reminiscent of those in a downtown ward. Inside, a two-story atrium with a grand staircase is lit by a sixty-foot-diameter skylight, and the building serves legal, business, and finance magnet programs.

Writing Credits

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

First African Baptist Church of East Savannah
Savannah Gardens
Jamie Baker and Cliff Bowers House
Gordonston
Pine Gardens Neighborhood

Citation

Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Savannah High School", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-13.13.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 219-219.

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