Savannah Victorian Historic District, 1002 Drayton Street (House), Savannah

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One of the many homes constructed by the Home Building Company as a speculative venture to be resold upon com- pletion. PART I. HISTORICAL INFORMATION A. Physical History: 1. Date of erection: The Tax Assessment book, lists the value of Lot section 5, at with of improvements. The Tax Digest values the property at with improvements. There is a recorded agreement between the original owner and the Home Building Company (Book 7 G 2. Architect: Not known. 3. Original owner: George Hummel, Savannah physician, signed the agree- ment with the Home Building Company. 4. Builder: Home Building Company. 5. Alterations and additions: The original front porch was removed and replaced by the present one-story portico. The rear second-story balcony has been removed.

The pocket doors from the front hall to the front parlor and between the parlors have been removed, and the transoms paneled over. For background information, see Savannah Victorian Historic District, HABS No. GA-1169. B.

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Tax Digest and Assessment Books, City of Savannah, located in Georgia Historical Society. Deed Book 7 G Superior Court Record Room, Chatham County, Court House DRAYTON STREET HABS No. GA-1169P (Page 2) Insurance Maps of Savannah, Sanborn Pern's Map Co., New York. Prepared by: Beth Lattimore Reiter Project Historian Historic American Buildings Survey October, PART II. ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION A. General Statement: 1. Architectural character: Drayton Street was designed in Queen Anne idiom, characterized by a textured facade of butt shingles and a frieze of aggregate attached to the panels. 2. Condition of fabric: Good. B. Description of Exterior: 1. Foundations: Brick pier foundation with spaced brick infill. An excavated space for a cold room or coal room is on the northeast side. 2.

Wall construction, finish: Clapboard siding covers the main block. The bay window is trimmed with beveled shingles. 3. Structural system: Wood frame construction. 4. Porches: The present one-story front entrance stoop is a replace- ment for the original porch which wrapped around the west side. The porch, lined iron railing and piers, is approached by brick steps, and has a floor of patterned brick mosaics. 5. Chimneys: Three brick chimneys. 6. Openings: a. Doorways and doors: The main entrance is fitted with paneled double doors. The original transom has been filled in. b. Windows: Floor-length windows, which originally opened out to the porch, are located on the west facade and have two-over-four- light double-hung sash.

The windows at the third level of the bay are boarded up, but in the companion building at Drayton Street they are of the Queen Anne style with colored glass panes. The window over the stoop at the second-story level is now a casement window. There is an oriel on the north elevation, first level. The rest of the windows have two-over-two-light sash. 7. Roof: a. Shape, covering: Two intersecting hip roofs covered with a stand- ing seam tin sheating. b. Cornice, eaves: The deep overhanging cornice is trimmed with decorative brackets and an aggregate frieze. DRAYTON STREET HABS No. GA-1169P (Page 3} c. Cupolas: The front bay window is topped by a polygonal cupola at the attic level. C. Description of the Interior: 1. Floor plans: a.

First floor: Irregular central-hall plan, three rooms deep on the south side and one room deep on the north side. b. Second floor: Irregular central-hall plan. 2. Stairways: An enclosed straight stairway with octagonal balusters provides access from the front hall to the second floor. The returns are ornamented with brackets. 3. Flooring: Hardwood floors throughout. 4. Wall and ceiling finish: Painted plaster walls in all rooms. The first-floor hall walls and all ceilings have been finished with a textured sprayed-on finish. Two second-floor rooms have elaborate tin ceilings. Several of the rooms have waist-high wainscoting. 5. Doorways, doors: The interior of the front door is framed by fluted corner-block molding, depicting a sunflower in a bulls- eye.

A large rectangular opening from the hall to the front parlor has been filled in. The other doors in the house, with the exception of the staircase door3 are raised-panel wooden doors. 6. Decorative features and trim: The room on the north side of the first-floor hall has a wooden fireplace mantel flanked by fluted columns supporting a plain shelf. The hearth is brick. The first- floor parlor mantels are constructed of wood and painted to resemble slate. A geometric design has been carved into the frieze and ver- tical portions of the mantels. The iron coal grates are intact. The mantels on the second floor are similar to the parlor mantels, but the frieze designs vary. 7. Mechanical systems: a.

Heating, ventilating: Originally, the house was ventilated by transoms which have been filled in. The house was originally heated by coal grates but now has a central ducted system. b. Plumbing: Originally indoor, but no notable fixtures remain. c. Lighting: The original gas lighting has been replaced by electricity. DRAYTON STREET HABS No. GA-1169P (Page 4} D. Site: The house is erected upon a corner lots facing west. The garden has been filled in by a brick office addition dating from the early twentieth century. Tradition says that this was Dr. Hummel's office. There are corner posts and remnants of an iron fence -set on a stuccoed brick coping. Prepared by: Beth Lattimore Renter Project Historian Historic American Buildings Survey October, PART III,

Project Information

This project was undertaken by the Historic American Buildings Survey in cooper- ation with the City of Savannah, the Historic Preservation Section of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, the Savannah Landmark Rehabilitation Project, Inc., and Historic Savannah Foundation. The recording project was completed dur- ing the summer of under the general direction of John Poppeliers, Chief of HABS; Kenneth L.

Anderson, Principal Architect; Eric Delony, Project Coordinator, Savannah Landmark Rehabilitation Project, Inc.; Beth Lattimore Reiter, Project Historian, Savannah Landmark Rehabilitation Project, Inc.; and Susan Dornbusch, Project Supervisor, University of Virginia; with student architects Gregori Ander- son (Howard University), David Fixler (Columbia University), Stephen Lauf (Temple University), and Tamara Peacock (University of Florida), at the HABS Office in Savannah, Georgia. The drawings were edited in the Washington office in September by architects Susan Dornbusch and Gregori Anderson. The historical and archi- tectural data was reviewed and edited during October-November by staff histo- rian Jan Cigliano.

Photographs were taken in September by Walter Smalling, a staff photographer with the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service. The doc- umentation on the historic district will be used in the rehabilitation of the resi- dences and in developing design guidelines for the area.