Commercial Building (Hotel Savannah)

Commercial Building (Hotel Savannah)

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1912, William L. Stoddart; 1919 rear addition; 1992 exterior restoration, Kolman and Smith, Architects. 32 Bull St.

Stoddart designed the two-hundred-room Hotel Savannah (later the Manger Hotel) in the Renaissance Revival style typical of urban hotels in which he specialized. The ten-story high-rise conforms to the Sullivan tripartite division of early skyscrapers with a two-story base, plain buff brick middle section, and ornate top area that is distinguished by the unusual use of colorful glazed terra-cotta. Only the rear portion of a planned one-hundred-room expansion, visible in historic postcards of the hotel, was carried out. The 1992 restoration involved stabilizing and replacing crumbling exterior elements.

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