Unique in its stepped end gables, this cotton warehouse showcases steeply pitched roofs that signal its early date. The row nicely illustrates a remarkable characteristic of the warehouses in this area: that all four principal stories can be accessed at grade, either directly as with the lower two stories, or via bridges. The prominent “X”s are the flanges of earthquake bolts tying the building together. The metal roof was replaced with copper in 2002.
Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Warehouses (Archibald Smith’s Factor’s Building)", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-1.6.
Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 25-25.
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