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Our Coast :: Savannah City Guide :: Visiting
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November 23, 2008
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Monterey Square: Hugh M. Comer House
Italianate in design (arched windows, burnt sienna stucco), this stucco-over-brick-dwelling was built for Hugh M. Comer, president of the Central of Georgia Railway Company. Jefferson Davis and his daughter Winnie visited the Comers in 1886. 2 East Taylor Street.
Website: comerhouse.com
--Visitor's Guide to Savannah
 | Monterey Square
1. Congregation Mickve Israel
Historic synagogue with Gothic architecture. One of the oldest Jewish congregations in the south, and the third oldest in the nation.
2. Thomas Levy House
(1867;1896) 12 East Taylor Street. Exuberantly baroque residence and print shop with Georgia marble steps, curved windows above the main entrance.
3. William Hunter House
(c. 1872), 10 East Taylor Street. Side galleries on two stories, golden yellow stucco.
4. Hugh M. Comer House
(1880), 2 East Taylor Street. This Victorian home has two seperate guest quarters. The ground floor is occupied by the owner's family.
5. 10 West Taylor Street
(1852) Sunset pink stucco with cast iron entrance stairs.
6. 423 and 425 Bull Street
(1858) Exquisite ironwork, reminiscent of Gramercy Park.
7. Mercer House
(1860-1871) 429 Bull Street. Red brick, framed by a handsome iron fence.
8. Noble Hardee House
(1860-69), 3 West Gordon Street and 441 Bull Street. Residence and antiques shop at corner of Bull and Gordon; wraparound cast iron balcony.
9. George Ferguson Armstrong House
(1920) White brick mansion. Built for shipping executive who served in the Spanish-American War.
10. Oglethorpe Club
(1857) 450 Bull Street. Private Club established in 1870.
11. Scudders' Range
(c.1852) 1-9 East Gordon Street. Outstanding row of townhouses overlooking Monterey Square.
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