Hyman Wallace Witcover (July 16, 1871 – October 2, 1936) was an

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

prominent in

Savannah, Georgia Savannah ( ) is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia and is the county seat of Chatham County, Georgia, Chatham County. Established in 1733 on the Savannah River, the city of Savannah became the Kingdom of Great Br ...

. He worked as a draftsman for

Alfred Eichberg Alfred Salom Eichberg (August 23, 1859 – May 15, 1921) was an architect in the U.S. state of Georgia.Alfre ...

and eventually partnered with him.

Life and career

Witcover was born in

Darlington, South Carolina Darlington is a city located in Darlington County, South Carolina, United States. In 2010, its population was 6,289. It is the county seat of Darlington County. It is part of the Florence, South Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area. Darlington ...

, in 1871, to Wolf and Dora. At age 17, he moved to

, where he began work as a

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for noted architect

Alfred Eichberg Alfred Salom Eichberg (August 23, 1859 – May 15, 1921) was an architect in the U.S. state of Georgia.Alfre ...

. Witcover served on the board of the

Congregation Mickve Israel Congregation Mickve Israel in Savannah, Georgia, is one of the oldest synagogues in the United States, as it was organized in 1735 by mostly Sephardic Jewish immigrants of Spanish-Portuguese extraction from London who arrived in the new colony i ...

and on the first board of Savannah's public library. He served in the

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as a private, and was also in the

Freemasonry Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 13th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities ...

fraternity. Witcover married Agnes Dillon.

Death

Witcover died on October 2, 1936, in his hometown of Darlington, where he had returned to live with two of his sons. He was 65. He is interred in Fort Lincoln Cemetery in

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, alongside his wife, who predeceased him by four years.

Notable works

City Hall, Savannah GA, South view 20160705 1

* One or more works in Savannah's

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* Old Effingham County Courthouse, Springfield, Georgia * Germania Bank (1904, later known as the Blun Building, demolished in 1975)Savannah
by Whip Morrison Triplett *

Savannah City Hall Savannah City Hall is the seat of government for the city of Savannah, Georgia, United States. Designed by architect Hyman Witcover, the building was built between 1904 and 1905 and opened the following year. It is a contributing property to th ...

, Savannah, Georgia (1905) * Hicks Hotel (circa 1914) * Scottish Rite Masonic Temple, Savannah, Georgia (1912) * Liberty Bank and Trust (1915) * Bnai Brith Jacob

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* Old Judicial Building,

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, as a Scottish Rite Temple (1926)Executive Director's Report

References

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