Green-Meldrim House in Savannah Georgia
by Carla Parris
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Green-Meldrim House in Savannah Georgia
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Carla Parris
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Photograph - Digital Photograph
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GREEN-MELDRIM HOUSE IN SAVANNAH GEORGIA is a digital photograph by Carla Parris.
Savannah, Georgia is a gracious southern city which is well known for its architectural treasures. The city's historic district is one of the largest in the country, and includes fine examples of Federal, Victorian Regency, Greek and Gothic Revival, and Italianate architecture.
The Green-Meldrim House, located at 14 West Macon Street and situated on the northwest corner of Madison Square, is one of the best-known examples of Gothic Revival style in the South. Its features include a flat roof with a castellated, or scalloped, parapet; a cast-iron covered porch on three sides; an imposing and ornate cast iron fence across the front; and oriel windows on the second story (a form of bay window which projects from the wall of a building but does not reach to the ground).
The front entrance to the structure, which was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976, has three sets of doors: heavy outer double doors which fold inward, forming a small closet on each side of the entrance; a set with glass panels to give light; and a set which are louvered to provide ventilation.
This historic building was built in the early 1850's as the residence of Charles Green, an Englishman who came to Savannah in 1833 and amassed a fortune as a cotton merchant and ship owner which was sufficient to build Savannah's most elaborate house, at a cost of $93,000.
During the Civil War, after Union troops captured Savannah in 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman used the house as headquarters until the end of the war.
It was in the Green-Meldrim House, in December of 1864, that General Sherman composed his famous telegram to President Lincoln in which he offered him the City of Savannah, along with one hundred fifty heavy guns, ammunition, and around twenty-five thousand bales of Mr. Green's cotton, as a Christmas gift.
In 1892, the house was purchased by Peter Meldrim, a local politician and judge who lived there for a number of decades. In 1943, his heirs sold the house to St John's Church, which is located next door and currently owns and operates it.
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