Quantock Row (Chatham Square)

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Quantock Row
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Quantock Row in 2021, with number 124 on the left
Quantock Row (Chatham Square)
General information
Location Chatham Square, Savannah, Georgia, U.S.
Address114–124 West Taylor Street
Coordinates 32°04′20″N81°05′47″W / 32.0722°N 81.096397°W / 32.0722; -81.096397
Completed1852;172 years ago (1852)
Technical details
Floor count3

Quantock Row is a historic row house in Savannah, Georgia, United States. It comprises the six homes from 114 to 124 West Taylor Street, in the northeastern residential block of Chatham Square, and was completed in 1852. [1] [2] It is a contributing property of the Savannah Historic District, itself on the National Register of Historic Places. [3] The row partly fills the block between Barnard Street to the west and Whitaker Street to the east and sits directly opposite Gordon Row.

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The properties were built for Allen William Quantock. [4]

Other similar-style row houses exist in Savannah's Scudder's Row, Gordon Row, the Jones Street Quantock Row, William Remshart Row House, McDonough Row and Mary Marshall Row. [5]

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References

  1. Preservation: The Magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation , Volume 52, Issues 4-6
  2. Sholes' Directory of the City of Savannah, Volume 5 (1883)
  3. Historic Building Map: Savannah Historic District – Historic Preservation Department of the Chatham County-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission (November 17, 2011), p. 63
  4. Savannah, Immortal City: Volume One of the Civil War Savannah Series - Barry Sheehy, Cindy Wallace, Vaughnette Goode-Walker (2011)
  5. Chatham Square – GoSouth Savannah

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