Today, one of Savannah’s main issues is the struggle to find a balance between accommodating the numbers of tourists we attract, and the quality of life and slow pace that make Savannah so attractive to visitors and residents in the first place.
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Davenport House thrills with ‘Stranger than Fiction’ living history
IF YOU’RE looking for spine-tingling tales, it doesn’t get more macabre than Savannah in 1820. A fire had left half the city in ruins, there was no electricity, and almost […]
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Revitalization at street level
Cool Communities in Hot Savannah features diverse collection of entertainers and organizations
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Preservation study shows trouble in paradise
What the ‘Beyond Tourism’ report calls “emerging quality of life criteria,” were regarded very differently up until around 50 years ago, before we began reconfiguring our built environment exclusively around the needs of automobiles.
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Schoolin’ the old school?
The new guard believes that canvas that connects art and preservation belongs to everyone, not just the wealthy, and the conversation continues.
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Editor’s Note: History + $$$ + Downtown = ???
The National Trust for Historic Preservation comes here just as we face the most contentious period of downtown development since Merritt Dixon plonked the modernist cube of the Hyatt Regency down onto River Street.
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Editor’s Note: Who are the real ‘haters?’
The irony is that probably no single entity in Savannah has done more than Historic Savannah Foundation to preserve and promote the engine that drives much of our current economic development.
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HSF unveils 2014 SAV Preservation Festival poster
Historic Savannah Foundation has selected former Shuman Elementary School student Odysseus Dingle’s design as the official 2014 Savannah Preservation Festival poster. Last May, Dingle was honored as the elementary school […]
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HSF accepting noms for Preservation Awards
Historic Savannah Foundation is now accepting nominations for the 2014 HSF Preservation Awards, “which recognize individuals and organizations demonstrating excellence in historic preservation,” the Foundation says. The deadline for HSF […]
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Archaeology at the Davenport House
“This was a tenement far longer that it was a home for the Davenports,” reminds Director Jamie Credle. “Everything can add to our inventory of information.”
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HSF to donate to Habitat for Humanity
Historic Savannah Foundation will present a check donation to the Coastal Empire Habitat for Humanity as part of their recent partnership to help bring forth Habitat’s latest project, a three-bedroom […]
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Interview: Mark McDonald
PRESERVATIONISTS IN SAVANNAH are losing an ally. Mark C. McDonald, executive director of the Historic Savannah Foundation, will become president and CEO of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation on […]