Savannah Then and Now - People and Places is a photographic tour de force of one of America's best-preserved cities.Pairing vintage photos with their modern-day equivalent, it takes in many of the elegant squares first planned out by James Oglethorpe in pre-Revolutionary Georgia.The preservation movement is strong within the city and many of the match-ups show the delapidated state of the Victorian District, and the dramatic transformation that has taken place in the last twenty years.All the large 18th-century house museums are featured including Mercer House (made famous by the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil), Davenport House, Wayne- Gordon House, Harper-Fowlkes House, and the Green-Meldrim House occupied by Sherman in 1864 after his march to the sea.
| ISBN: | 9781910904817 |
| Publication date: | 5th December 2016 |
| Author: | Polly Cooper, Ted Eldridge |
| Publisher: | Pavilion an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 400 pages |
| Series: | Then and Now |
| Genres: |
Places and peoples: general and pictorial works Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc Protection of historic buildings and cultural assets Local history Places in old photographs Photographs: collections Architecture: residential and domestic buildings History of architecture |