![]() This impressive structure is hidden by a thicket of trees and bushes on the north side of a busy stretch of Ogeechee Road just east of Chatham Parkway. The two architects designed the new powder magazine in the Gothic style, technically called the King Arthur style.Īll that’s missing from this tiny castle is a moat and drawbridge, knights in shining armor, a fair maiden and a mob of angry peasants with torches and pitchforks. Witcover also designed Savannah’s 1906 City Hall, while Eichburg designed the Telfair Hospital, and the Central of Georgia Railway building (now SCAD’s Eichberg Hall) on MLK Boulevard. That’s akin to hiring Rembrandt to paint your garage. Eichburg and Hyman Witcover, to design it. ![]() They hired a pair of famous architects, Alfred S. They picked a site five miles west of the city in a thinly populated area on Ogeechee Road. Hence the city closed its existing powder magazine and decided to build a more secure storage place elsewhere in case things went KA-BOOM. The historic Savannah Powder Magazine was built 120 years ago during a time when gunpowder and dynamite were the explosives of choice and when citizens were rightly worried that an accidental ignition of these stored materials could wipe out much of the city.Īs always, city leaders, including then-Mayor Peter Meldrim, were worried about their political self-preservation. ![]() It’s completely hidden from public view - a shame for a community that rightly values its history and architectural diversity. Only a few intrepid people have seen the most interesting public building in Savannah.
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