- Collection:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation Presentation Slide Collection, 1968-2000
- Title:
- Scarbrough House
- Creator:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Contributor to Resource:
- Jay, William, 1792-1837
- Date of Original:
- 1968
- Subject:
- Architecture
Historic sites--Georgia--Chatham County
Historic buildings--Georgia--Chatham County
Architecture, Domestic--Georgia--Chatham County
Cultural property--Protection
Historic preservation--Georgia
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
- Medium:
- color slides
historic preservation
historic buildings - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- The William Scarbrough House, located on Broad Street, was designed in 1819 by William Jay. Scarborough was a leading figure in the Savannah Steamship Company. The house was willed by Robert Isaac in 1827 to Mrs. William Taylor (William Scarborough's daughter), and sold by William Taylor in 1851 to Mrs. Dominick O'Byrne. Abandoned by the Byrne family as a residence after the fire of 1865, the house was sold in 1870 to the Rt. Rev. Augustine Verot, Bishop of Savannah, and used as a boys' orphanage. The house was bought by Bernard P. McKenna in 1876 and sold by him in 1878 to Georgia W. J. Derenne, who conveyed it to the Board of Education for use as the first public school for African Americans in the area, the West Broad Street School, which closed in 1962. A third floor was added in the late nineteenth century but removed during restoration from 1975-76.The title soon reverted to Derenne's heirs, one of whom, Mrs. Craig Barrow, gave her share of the house to the Historic Savannah Foundation in 1966, and the Foundation purchased the remaining shares for $42,000. For more information, see Linley, John. The Georgia Catalog: Historic American Buildings Survey. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1982, p. 338.The restoration architecture that took place after this photograph was taken was performed by John Milner. Variant names include: Scarbrough House. See ref #70000201 (Scarbrough, William, House) https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/national-register-listed-20240710.xlsx
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_318
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_318#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_318/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Rights:
-
