Savannah Historic District

Infobox_nrhp | name =Savannah Historic District
nrhp_type = nhld


caption =
location= Bounded by E. Broad, Gwinnett, and W. Broad Sts. and the Savannah River, Savannah, Georgia
lat_degrees = 32
lat_minutes = 4
lat_seconds = 28
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 81
long_minutes = 5
long_seconds = 30
long_direction = W
locmapin = USA Georgia
area = ca. 1300 acres
architect= Multiple
architecture= Mid 19th Century Revival, Federal
designated= November 13, 1966cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/default.cfm
title=___NHLsummaryWebsiteIsDownFixLater___ |accessdate=2008-06-21|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = November 13, 1966cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = State
refnum=66000277The Savannah Historic District is a large urban U.S. historic district that roughly corresponds to the city limits of Savannah, Georgia, prior to the American Civil War.

The area was declared a National Historic Landmark District in 1966,citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/66000277.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: The Savannah Georgia NHL Historic District] |32 KB|date=1977 |author=James Dillon |publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/66000277.pdf "Accompanying 25 photos, from 1964, 1973"] |32 KB] and is one of the largest districts of its kind in the United States (designated by the U.S. government in 1966).cite web|url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1056&hl=y|title=Savannah|work=New Georgia Encyclopedia|publisher=Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press|date=2006-09-11|accessdate=2008-01-01]

Each year, the Savannah Historic District attracts millions of visitors, who enjoy its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century architecture and green spaces. The district includes the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low (founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America), the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences (one of the South's first public museums), the First African Baptist Church (one of the oldest African American Baptist congregations in the United States), Temple Mickve Israel (the third-oldest synagogue in America), and the (the oldest standing antebellum rail facility in America). [cite web|url=http://www.savannah-visit.com/info.asp|title=Savannah Information|work=|publisher=Savannah Area Convention & Visitors Bureau|accessdate=2008-01-01]

ee also

*Savannah Victorian Historic District
*Squares of Savannah, Georgia
*Savannah, Georgia#Historic sites

References

External links

* [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/hhquery.html search for Savannah GA photosets here] , at Historic American Building Survey