The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-10
An OLD LANDMARK GONE.
The House at Hull and barnard
streets an Historic Structure.

The old brick building at the northeast
corner Of Barnard and Hull streets which
has just been demolished 10 make way
for four elegant and modern houses that
are TO be erected there was full Of his
toric interest.
older residents Of Savannah sometimes
speak Of their fathers having told them
about there being forests out in that
section, and many of them tell. them
selves. about having seen the swamp and
marshy land that used to cover that sec
ton of the city.
When this old structure was built Il
was on the outskirts Of the town, and was
one Of about dozen buildings built about
that time. the like OF which could not
be found in any other city IN this coun-
try.
The house was built about 1920 by Rob
ert Habersham, Esq, VINO died back In
the later sixties. As an evidence Of the
boom that was on in Savannah AT that
time, Mr.. William Neyle Habersham. son
Of Mr.. Robert Habersham, says his father
gave for the lot on which the house stood,
5000, and then put up the building at
cost Of $4,000. During the panic of 1923
Mr. Habersham sold both the house ana
lot for 5000. or just one-hfth of what the
before.
In these days, however. there are more
people to buy real estate than there
We're at that time, and in consequence
values are kept up better even during
a panic or period of depression. Shortly
after the property was sold by
Mr.. Habersham II was owned
by a Mrs. Maxwell, who kept a
boarding house there for a number Of
years. Mrs. Maxwell sold it to Mr. Aaron
Champion. Mt Habersham says, also,
that the house was at one time occupied
by the Berrens.
Savannah then had only 5000 inhabitants
but an immense trade was being opened up
through the coming of settlers into the
state and the town. by reason of its wa
ter routes along the coast and the Savan-
nah, Ogeechee and Altemaha rivers,
was growing rapidly The building of the
railroad from Charleston to Augusta a
few years after. and even before that,
Charleston putting on steamers, then a
new means of travel and traffic. took the
wind out of little Savannah and property
went down. After Mr.. Habersham sold
the house and lot he bought the building
on the west side of Orleans square now
known rs the Habersham house, which
was built by Mr.. Noble Jones Bulloch. for
5000 a property that had cost Mr.. Bull
loch $4,000.
1t may not be going out Of the way TO
mention that from 1920 to 1880 the census
showed no increase in the population of
Savannah. In 1894 the project of building
the Central railroad and other public i'm
provements started revival in business
and the city again began to grow.
The old house just demolished was a
type of the solid buildings erected In me
early part of the century, during the pc
riod from 1872 to 1920. when the Scarbo-
rough house, now the West Broad street
colored school house. the Thomas house,
the Habersham and Savage houses, the
latter the one just demolished, and so
called because it was occupied by the
Savage family for many years. the the
alter, the Chatham Academy, the old In
dependent Presbyterian church. the old
residence, at Perry and Drayton streets.
for long time the Roman Catholic Epis-
copal residence, and later the home of the
Little Sisters of the Poor, built by Samuel
Parkman, the Telfair mansion, now the
Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences,
the Gordon house, built by Associate Jus
tice Wayne Of the United States supreme
court at that time a judge of the supe-
rior court of Chatham county and other
historic residences of old Savannah, which
are full of memories of three quarters of
a century ago, were built