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This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

The upper floors of the Montmollin Building housed one of the largest slaves operations in Savannah (the third floor was where the slaves were kept); it was run by John Montmollin and Alexander Bryan from the 1850s until December 1864, when Savannah…

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

The Owens-Thomas House, run by the Telfair Museum, is a fine example of English-Recency architecture in America. It was built for cotton merchant and banker Richard Richardson. The tour begins in the original slave quarters seen here.

Despite the damage caused by the tsunami, the residents of Rikuzentakata want to rebuild the coast so that they may still live peacefully near the water.

Although the focus of the Owens-Thomas House tour is the main house and its architecture, at least there is some verbal mention of the slaves who worked here.

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

This floor plan is on display on the second floor of the slave quarters--this is not part of the guided tour, although guests are invited to take a look before or after.

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

This information accompanies the floor plan on the second floor of the slave quarters, and gives some indication as to what life may have been like for the slaves who lived here.