Jones/Derenne Range

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Jones/Derenne Range
112-130 East Bay Street.jpg
The building in 2022
Jones/Derenne Range
General information
Location112–130 East Bay Street [1]
Town or city Savannah, Georgia
CountryUnited States
Coordinates 32°04′52″N81°05′21″W / 32.0810°N 81.0893°W / 32.0810; -81.0893
Technical details
Floor count5
Jones/Derenne Range
The Jones and Derenne Range, Savannah, GA, US.jpg
2020 view of building
Part of Savannah Historic District (ID66000277)
Significant dates
Designated November 13, 1966 [2]
Designated CPNovember 13, 1966 [3]

Jones/Derenne Range, also known as Jones' Lower Range, is a historic building located on East Bay Street in Savannah, Georgia, United States. Located in Savannah's Historic District, parts of the building date to 1817. [4] The Savannah Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and this building is a contributing property. [4] [5]

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History

The building was originally a cotton warehouse, split between the Jones Stores (east) and Hunter Stores (west).

River Street Inn

The top four floors of 124 East Bay Street have been occupied since 1986 by River Street Inn, [6] named for the street it backs onto and which serves the lower three floors. The inn is a member of the Historic Hotels of America program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. [6] The first floor (accessible from River Street) is given over to a restaurant.

Historic Hotels of America

"Taking up an entire city block and wrapped around a gorgeous central atrium, the five-story structure first operated as a storing, grading, and exporting facility for cotton. The floors of the lower two levels were built in 1817 out of recycled ballast stone with wide, arched doorways to accommodate moving large bales of cotton, while the top three floors, added in 1853, have floor-to-ceiling windows to allow maximum light into what was once used as offices, for the factors." [6]

River Street façade

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References

  1. Contact us – River Street Inn's official website
  2. "Savannah Historic District". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on 2009-01-31. Retrieved 2009-07-21.
  3. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  4. 1 2 River Street Inn Historical MarkerHistorical Marker Database
  5. Savannah Historic District nomination form
  6. 1 2 3 "River Street Inn". Historic Hotels of America . Retrieved April 19, 2020.