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Savannah Arts Academy (Savannah High School)

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1935–1937, Levy and Clarke, supervising architects; Cletus W. Bergen, consulting architect; Henrik Wallin, Walter P. Marshall and Percy Sugden, associate architects. 500 E. Washington Ave., Chatham Crescent

As the focal point of the Chatham Crescent development, Harvey Granger planned the Georgia Hotel in an exuberant Spanish Colonial Revival style, designed by Wallin and Young. Construction began in 1912, but was abandoned in 1914. The incomplete ruins of the hotel remained until 1932, when they were used to solidify the shoreline of Bonaventure Cemetery (17.1). In 1935 the Board of Education acquired the site for Savannah High School. Designed to accommodate 2,000 students, it was the largest Public Works Administration (PWA) project in Georgia and the largest high school in the state. Its Georgian Revival style, popular for schools in the early twentieth century, was also used for the nearby 49th Street School (1929, Levy, Bergen and Wallin). In 1998, Savannah High moved to a new building (13.13), and a newly established public magnet high school, the Savannah Arts Academy, took up residence a year later.

Writing Credits

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

Chatham Crescent
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Citation

Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Savannah Arts Academy (Savannah High School)", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-14.6.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 226-226.

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