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.