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Ardsley Park

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1910. Bounded by E. Victory Dr. and 54th, Bull, and Habersham sts.

Ardsley Park, developed by brothers and Savannah natives Harry Hays and William Lattimore, was an early automobile suburb, extending south from Estill Avenue (now Victory Drive). A generously wide Abercorn Street, distinguished by its central median, forms the spine of the grid-plan development. The area included five landscaped one-acre parks (designed by L. A. Berckmans of the P. J. Berckmans Company of Augusta, Georgia) inspired by the squares of downtown Savannah and set at regular intervals, but placed beside and not in line with Abercorn, to avoid interrupting traffic flow. Each had formal plantings that required intensive maintenance, which fell out of favor by the 1930s.

Writing Credits

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

Parkside
Daffin Park
Grayson Stadium
Victory Drive
Blessed Sacrament Catholic School

Citation

Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Ardsley Park", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-14.1.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 223-223.

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