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Bull Street Baptist Church

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1927, Wallin and Comer, with N. Sargent Hamilton. 1400 Bull St.

Massive and uncompromising, this church is strikingly modern in its fundamentally simple Greek temple form and makes a fitting complement to the classical-porticoed St. Paul’s Greek Orthodox Church (Lawton Auditorium) of 1897–1898 directly across the street. Over a dozen full-width steps lead to a monumental pedimented porch supported by colossal fluted Doric columns. The virtually bare interior is similarly grand. Administrative spaces fill a two-story complex off the apse. The church erected its modernist Education Building in 1953, designed by architect Ralph S. Thomas.

Writing Credits

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

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Citation

Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Bull Street Baptist Church", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-10.11.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 186-186.

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