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Savannarama: 1915

Savannah, Georgia, in 1915. "View of Bull Street from Broughton Street showing the National Bank of Savannah, Johnson Square, Savannah Bank Building and Hotel Savannah." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Savannah, Georgia, in 1915. "View of Bull Street from Broughton Street showing the National Bank of Savannah, Johnson Square, Savannah Bank Building and Hotel Savannah." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

 

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Parking innovation

This is probably the oldest instance of diagonal parking I've ever seen.

National Bank Building

The loss of the National Bank Building in 1975 irreparably marred the beauty of Broughton and Bull Streets, despite the robust and decades old historic preservation movement active at the time.

Notch shot

I see the two most prominent buildings have survived, but everything else has changed. In this view you can just see the Hotel Savannah's notch. The Hotel Savannah became an office building - the Manger Building. It is now being transformed back into a hotel. The taller Savannah Bank Building is now the Johnson Square Business Center.

Straight ahead (right, left, left, right)

This view illustrates well how Savannah's city plan of Public Squares, innovative as it may be, wreaks havoc with navigation.

The hotel was nothing extraordinary, perhaps, but made the April 1913 Architectural Review; the floorplan shows a creative notch in the inner corner of the upper floors - an effort to coax sunlight into rooms that otherwise wouldn't have any.

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