| The classically
designed Andrew Low House sits on the southwest trust lot
on Lafayette Square in the beautiful port city of Savannah,
Georgia. The square was named after a Revolutionary War
hero and the trust lot was the former site of the old
jail.
In 1847 the
wealthy cotton factor Andrew Low chose John Norris to design a
house on the lot for his young family. Norris was an
architect to whom the city's leading citizens turned for the
design of their residences and business
establishments. Along with the architects William
Jay and Charles B. Cluskey, John Norris formed a trio which left
major imprints upon 19th century Savannah.
Savannah with about 14,000 inhabitants was a prosperous, growing
community when Andrew Low moved into his
grand new house in 1849. A sort of golden age began
for Savannah in the years leading up to the War Between the
States. As the ships of A. Low & Co. plied the ocean
routes between Savannah and Liverpool loaded with bales of
cotton worth millions of dollars. Andrew Low was acknowledged as the
richest man in the city. |
