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The Cottage Shop (Drouillard-Maupaus House)

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c. 1797; 1946 rear addition. 2422 Abercorn St.

As a refugee of the Haitian Revolution, Andre Drouillard arrived from Saint-Domingue in 1793. After purchasing 207 acres to grow cotton, he built this coastal Creole cottage, which is the most completely documented example in the city. The cottage’s lack of alignment with the street (a rarity in Savannah) is due to the fact that it was built prior to the surrounding urban grid. Drouillard’s one-and-a-half-story house on a raised basement of Savannah Grey brick has a two-story front gallery integral with the double-pitched roof and a central-hall double-pile plan.

Writing Credits

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

City of Savannah Community Planning and Development (Abercorn Medical Center)
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Sisters Court (Little Sisters of the Poor)
Starland Design District (Starland Dairy)
Bull Street Public Library (Savannah Public Library)

Citation

Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "The Cottage Shop (Drouillard-Maupaus House)", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-12.10.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 212-212.

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