Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Archivision Base to Module 13
Preferred Title:
Andrew Low House
Image View:
South facade with ironwork balcony, overlooking walled garden
Creator:
John S. Norris (American architect, 1804-1876)
Location:
site: Savannah, Georgia, United States
Location Note:
Lafayette Square (southwest), 329 Abercorn St.
GPS:
32.073027-81.092484
Date:
1848-1849 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Italianate (North American architecture styles); Nineteenth century
Work Type 1:
house
Classification:
architecture
Material:
brick; pink stucco; sandstone; cast iron
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Subjects:
architecture; historical; antebellum architecture
Description:
The brick Andrew Low House combines Grecian details with elements of the Italian Villa style and boasts one of Savannah's most stunning ironwork balconies. A shuttered sleeping porch (in the style of the Charleston 'piazza' type) overlooks a beautiful brick-walled garden in the rear of the home. The front garden remains much as it did when first planted, with two hourglass-shaped flowerbeds. Andrew Low was a wealthy cotton factor (broker). Andrew Low?s son, William Mackay Low, married Juliette Gordon in 1886. Juliette Gordon Low was the founder of the Girl Scouts of America. The Andrew Low House is open for tours. (Source: Visit Historic Savannah [website]; http://www.visit-his toric-savannah.com)
Image Description:
Restoration construction work visible on the left.
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Six
Identifier:
1B3-AB-S-F4
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Andrew Low House