They say discretion is the better part of valor. Here in Savannah, when a hurricane threatens, evacuation has rarely been the necessary choice. But I had better knock on wood after making that bold statement, just in case my Savannahian luck does not continue to hold.
Read MoreThe Eliza Thompson Home, located at 5 West Jones Street, remained one of Savannah's more prestigious addresses throughout city history. Under Eliza, the house was well known for holding elegant parties and lavish social affairs.
Read MoreThe Noah B. Knapp Home was completed in 1857. Mr. Knapp was a successful leather goods merchant and saddle maker, owning a store once located nearby my art gallery in the Savannah City Market.
Read MoreThe Noble Hardee Mansion, painted en Plein air on a beautiful day in May, is located at the intersection of Bull Street and West Gordon Street in the Savannah Historic District.
Read MoreThe Reverend Charles B. King Home, located on Monterey Square at 11 West Gordon Street in the Historic District of Savannah, was built in 1858 and designed by John S. Norris, the most famous architect in Savannah in his day.
Read MoreThe uniqueness of Savannah's Oglethorpe Town Plan remains largely intact today, but only because of the equally impressive work of a group of ladies who founded The Savannah Historic Foundation in 1955.
Read MoreThe structure of the Inn combined a pair of classic Adamesque, or Federalist Style townhomes, settled adjacent to this beautiful courtyard painted en Plein air here. This scene is as it appears: A very peaceful place to relax. The Presidents' Quarters Inn showcases sixteen luxurious suites.
Read MoreIn 1877, the Thomas Gamble Building above the Savannah River bluff on East Bay replaced the Eugene Kelly Store that a fire destroyed in 1869. Thomas Gamble served as Mayor of Savannah in the 1930s and 1940s. City officials then renamed the building to honor Mayor Gamble when he died in 1945.
Read MoreLocated in the heart of Orleans Square in Savannah's Historic District, this beautiful German Memorial Fountain commemorates the early German immigrants to the Colony of Georgia. The fountain was dedicated in 1989 to honor the religio
Read MoreThis gorgeous water fountain found near the center of Lafayette Square in Savannah was installed in 1983 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Georgia's founding.
Read MoreTrinity United Methodist Church is the oldest Methodist church in Savannah. When he was 33-years-old in 1735, John Wesley sojourned to the Georgia Colony, landing in Savannah with a plan to evangelize the area's Indian population.
Read MoreIn the 1950s, after becoming the chief architect for the Savannah Park and Tree Commission, Georges Bignault designed the Fragrant Garden for the Blind in Forsyth Park for the Savannah Garden Club. Like Oscar de la Renta, Mr. Bignault enjoyed creating and playing in his gardens until his death at age 77.
Read MoreMany of the African masks in Don's collection came from the 'Luba' people, indigenous to Central Africa in an area of what is now the Congo. How can a Russian girl named Luba not want to know more about the Kingdom of Luba, which was among the most successful societies in African history!
Read MoreThe Marshall House is Savannah's oldest hotel, located at the very center of the Historic District. Built in 1851 by Mary Marshall on the city's main downtown thoroughfare, Broughton Street, the hotel offers guests its famous wrought-iron 'Broughton Balcony' overlooking a bustling retail shopping area.
Read MoreThe Savannah History Museum contains more than 10,000 artifacts to guide you through the city's history since Oglethorpe's anchored his ship Anne below the bluffs on the Savannah River in 1733.
Read MoreThis week, I painted this impressive Bull Street Baptist Church scene, located three blocks south of Forsyth Park at 1400 Bull Street.
Read MoreThis pretty building, painted en Plein air, is the old Georgia Hussars Armory, built to house the cavalry unit originally organized by Georgia Founder General James Oglethorpe in 1736 to protect the floundering new Colony from its enemies, both foreign and domestic.
Read MoreThe African-American Monument found on River Street is a stark reminder of the people — a family presented as held in its place by brutal chains around their feet — who literally and figuratively built Savannah for the next one-hundred and fifteen years.
Read MoreI painted this scene en Plein air on a beautiful February afternoon. It shows an area known as Factors Walk found directly behind the first line of buildings (most built initially as cotton warehouses) just off the Savannah River.
Read MoreJust north of Chippewa Square and directly across Bull Street from the Independent Presbyterian Church is the northeast tithing-lot set aside in 1788 for educational use by the Chatham Academy.
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