In planning for Cuyler-Brownville’s future, the city of Savannah intends to sacrifice some of the area’s historic past. The attached row houses the city is eyeing for demolition to make way for a Savannah-Chatham police station date back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, according to Ellen Harris, director of urban planning and historic preservation for the Metropolitan Planning Commission. Peter Wiltberger Meldrim bought the land in 1882 and began building the modest cottages to house African-American workers, Harris said, and the area became known as “Meldrim Row.” Meldrim was a state senator and representative, as well as Savannah’s mayor for two years beginning in 1897, before serving as a Superior Court judge of the Eastern Judicial Circuit until his death in 1933. “Meldrim’s development of Meldrim Row is significant as one of the earliest attempts to provide adequate housing for minorities in Georgia,” according to the Cuyler-Brownville’s National Register of Historic Places registration form. Fronting each side of 33rd and 34th streets, between Montgomery Street and Martin Luther King Jr.
Plans For Future Trump Historic Past For Savannah's Police Precinct Project
ERIC CURL • 912-652-0312, Savannah Morning News
Sat, 06/14/2014 - 7:44pm
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