Georgia

The original Carbo House, constructed in 1914, was destroyed by fire in 1931. The present building, erected on a larger lot that incorporates the original lot to the south, is one of a few boarding houses remaining from the resort era and the only example that has not been significantly altered. The two-story frame building employs a low-pitched hipped roof with exposed rafter tails and wraparound porches across both stories. Exterior stairways are located within the porches along the sides of the building.

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.

This house for Ardsley Park’s codeveloper Harry Hays Lattimore was strategically located at the principal intersection of the

development, and set the standard for the grandest houses in Ardsley Park and Chatham Crescent with its Beaux-Arts classical styling. A monumental portico with colossal Corinthian columns proudly proclaims the social status of its occupant. Other notable houses in this style include 2807 Abercorn Street (1913, Olaf Otto) and 920 E. Victory Drive (c. 1912).

This sixty-foot-diameter globe, built by the Savannah Gas Company as a storage tank, was located just south of the Derenne Avenue city limit to protect the residents from a gas explosion. Following the suggestion of R. E. Turner Jr. (media magnate Ted Turner’s father), the company painted it to resemble a globe with traditional national boundaries. A to Z Coating and Sons purchased the globe in 1998 and repainted it in a more realistic manner that featured Hurricane Floyd, which threatened

The resort’s social life centered on the Tybrisa Pavilion, the largest of several seaside pavilions extending out from the shore that comprised food, dancing, and entertainment venues, as well as lounging verandas. Although the Tybrisa (built by the Central of Georgia c. 1900) was destroyed by fire in 1967, the current city pier and pavilion are built on its oceanfront site and evoke that tradition.

Savannah Gardens continues the collaboration of Mercy Housing Southeast (see 11.7), the City of Savannah, and the Community Housing Service Agency. Set on a forty-four-acre site previously occupied by temporary defense housing, this design retains that development’s innovative sweeping arcs and adds

These six batteries conform to the three-part defense system of the Endicott plan: large-caliber batteries (Garland, Fenwick, Brumby) directed fire against ships; a mortar battery (Habersham) provided plunging fire against ships; and small-caliber, rapid-fire batteries (Backus, Gantt) defended an electrically controlled minefield beneath the shipping channel from smaller vessels.

This two-story house with outbuildings retains much of its initial form, with a one-room-wide second story, a wraparound veranda, and original glass in the windows. The nearby house at 75 W. Bluff Drive was also built in 1864, but its extensive wrap-around side porch (the second story of which has recently been enclosed) is unusual for Savannah.

One of the most prominent and gifted architects to work on the campus was Antonio Orsot, a graduate of the Tuskegee School of Architecture in Alabama. He served as director of Trades and Industries at Georgia Industrial College from 1919

Inspired by the success of residential developments on nearby Hilton Head Island, the Union Camp Corporation, under the auspices of its newly acquired Chicago-based subsidiary, the Branigar Organization (led by Harvey W. Branigar Jr.), began to develop forestland it owned on Skidaway Island as a gated