comparemela.com

Latest Breaking News On - Alfreds eichberg - Page 1 : comparemela.com

Toes in the sand, heart on the sleeve

As I type out this column on a computer in a busy downtown Monroe newspaper office, my mind wanders to a beach house deck overlooking the ocean on St. Simons

Savannah Powder Magazine: historic building housed gunpowder, dynamite

Of all of Savannah’s historical buildings, the Savannah Powder Magazine remains its most secret and remote and for good reason. The Powder Magazine was built in 1898 to house the city’s supply of gunpowder and dynamite well away from populated areas so that if it accidentally blew up, it wouldn’t take the half the city with it. Mayor Peter Meldrim went all out and hired famous architects Alfred S. Eichberg and Hyman Witcover to design the magazine. Having designed the City Hall and Telfair Hospital, Eichberg and Witcover were probably a little over qualified to build what basically amounted to a storage shed that no one was meant to see.

© 2025 Vimarsana

vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.