The John Scudder Property is a home 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 ...
, United States. It is located at 11 East
Jones Street and was constructed in 1851.
[Historic Building Map: Savannah Historic District]
– Historic Preservation Department of the Chatham County-Savannah
Metropolitan Planning Commission (November 17, 2011)
The building is part of the
Savannah Historic District Savannah Historic District may refer to:
*Savannah Historic District (Savannah, Georgia), a National Historic Landmark district in Georgia
* Central of Georgia Railroad: Savannah Shops and Terminal Facilities, Savannah, Georgia, a historic district ...
,
[ and in a survey for the ]Historic Savannah Foundation
Historic Savannah Foundation is a preservation organization founded in 1955 and based in Savannah, Georgia, United States.
In 1950, the four-story Wetter House on East Oglethorpe was demolished.[Mary Lane Morrison
Mary Lane Morrison (August 15, 1907 – July 16, 1994) was an American writer, historian and preservationist. She was the curator of the Georgia Historical Society, a member of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the state o ...]
found the building to be of significant status.[''Historic Savannah: Survey of Significant Buildings in the Historic and Victorian Districts of Savannah, Georgia'', ]Mary Lane Morrison
Mary Lane Morrison (August 15, 1907 – July 16, 1994) was an American writer, historian and preservationist. She was the curator of the Georgia Historical Society, a member of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the state o ...
(1979), p. 174
The house was built by and for John Scudder John Scudder may refer to:
* John Scudder (builder) (1815–1869), American builder
* John Scudder (physician) (1889–1971), American physician and blood specialist
* John Scudder Sr. (1793–1855), American medical missionary to India
* John ...
, one of the city's "most prolific and successful antebellum
Antebellum, Latin for "before war", may refer to:
United States history
* Antebellum South, the pre-American Civil War period in the Southern United States
** Antebellum Georgia
** Antebellum South Carolina
** Antebellum Virginia
* Antebellum ar ...
builders".[''Savannah, Immortal City: Volume One of the Civil War Savannah Series'']
- Barry Sheehy, Cindy Wallace, Vaughnette Goode-Walker (2011), p. 287 It was later sold to Charles S. Hardee for $4,500.[ Scudder also built the property next door at 15 East Jones Street.
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See also
*Scudder's Row
Scudder's Row (possibly Scudders Row) is a historic row house in Savannah, Georgia, United States. It comprises the five homes from 1 to 9 East Gordon Street (Savannah, Georgia), Gordon Street, in the southeastern Squares of Savannah, Georgia, res ...
*Buildings in Savannah Historic District
The Savannah Historic District is a large urban U.S. historic district that roughly corresponds to the city limits of Savannah, Georgia, prior to the American Civil War. The area was declared a National Historic Landmark District in 1966,James Dil ...
References
Houses in Savannah, Georgia
Houses completed in 1851
Savannah Historic District
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