Gordon Row

{{Short description|Historic row house in Savannah, Georgia, United States}}

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| architectural_style = Romanesque revivalThe Georgia Catalog, Historic American Buildings Survey: A Guide to the Architecture of the State, John Linley, University of Georgia Press (1982)

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| location = Chatham Square, Savannah, Georgia, U.S.

| address = 101–129 West Gordon Street

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Gordon Row (also known as Gordon Block)[https://gosouthsavannah.com/historic-district-and-city/squares-and-parks/chatham-square.html Chatham Square] – GoSouth Savannah is a historic row house in Savannah, Georgia, United States. The largest single row-house in Savannah, it comprises fifteen homes (or "units") located between 101 and 129 West Gordon Street in the southeastern residential block of Chatham Square. Completed in 1854, it is a contributing property of the Savannah Historic District, itself on the National Register of Historic Places, as are its standing carriage houses to the rear.[https://www.thempc.org/docs/lit/hist/maps/supplement.pdf Historic Building Map: Savannah Historic District] – Historic Preservation Department of the Chatham County-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission (November 17, 2011), p. 63 The row occupies the entire block between Barnard Street on the west and Whitaker Street on the east and sits directly across Chatham Square from Quantock Row on Taylor Street.

The properties were built between 1853 and 1855 for prospective use as renter-occupied houses in the city's blossoming market.

After falling into disrepair, the properties were renovated in the mid-20th century by the Historic Savannah Foundation.Antiques at Savannah, Editorial Publications (1967), p. 18

Other similar-style row houses exist in Savannah's Scudder's Row, the two Quantock Rows (of Taylor Street and Jones Street), William Remshart Row House, McDonough Row and Mary Marshall Row.

Gallery

File:Gordon Row Savannah.jpg|View from its western end

File:Gordon Row.jpg|View from sidewalk, 2021

File:Gordon Row, detail (117 West Gordon).jpg|117 West Gordon, 2021

File:Gordon Row, detail (127-129 West Gordon).jpg|127-129 West Gordon, 2021

File:Gordon Row detail (plaque).jpg|Date plaque

File:Gordon Row (Rear Carriage Houses).jpg|Ramshackle line of carriage houses at the rear, 2021

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See also