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Independent Presbyterian Church

For a congregation organized in 1755, John Holden Greene of Rhode Island constructed the original Independent Presbyterian Church in 1817-1819, as a finely proportioned structure of Federal design and as such it is one of the most important Federal churches in the country. The original burned in 1889. The four Corinthian columns are topped with hand-carved capitals that support an oval, domed ceiling.The trustees sent representatives over the South in search of trees large enough to construct each column from a single trunk. In 1885 Woodrow Wilson married Ellen Axson, granddaughter of the pastor, in the parlor of the old manse.

--Sojourn in Savannah

Chippewa Square
1. Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools Administrative Offices
208 Bull Street (Formerly Chatham Academy and Savannah High School.)
2. Independent Presbyterian Church
Corner of Bull and Oglethorpe. A soaring steeple with clocks on all four sides, topped by a gleaming brass weathervane.
3. First Baptist Church
Bull Street on Chippewa Square, (1833). Church in Greek temple design with six massive columns.
4. Savannah Theater
222 Bull Street. Live theater in an art deco building on the country's oldest theater site in continuous operation; a Greek Revival building by William Jay once stood here.

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