Savannah's City Hall Photo

Photographer’s Note

City Hall was designed and built by local architect Hyman Wallace Witcover in 1901. The original cost estimate of $205,167 included ornate statues of chariots and horses atop the structure. Budget considerations forced their deletion from the final plans, but they can still be seen in the architect's original rendering. City Hall is a Renaissance Revival building with classic proportions and detailing. The structure replaced a circa 1799 City Exchange building which had housed City government for many years. On January 2, 1906, ten thousand visitors attended the opening reception for City Hall. The first City Council meeting in the new City Hall was held the following day.
http://www.savannahga.gov/cityweb/webdatabase.nsf/a49e50a71c5198a485256abe0069ccdd/90f7862f7424cc5085256ae200446f93?OpenDocument

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jhm (83378) 2009-09-25 4:30

Witaj Wojciech,

A pity almost 60 visitors and nobody gives critique.
Very sharp details and interesting parts of architecture.
Lovely nice area, good presentation.
Very well composition, TFS.

Have a nice weekend,
John.

s_lush (2588) 2009-09-26 5:45

Hello Wojciech,
This is really outstanding building with beautiful architecture. It is difficult task to take photo of such a big building among a busy street, but you did this very well. Perfectly good job!
Best regards,
Sergiy

porto62 (1787) 2009-09-26 14:55

hi Wojciech,great POV and well done on composition,great blue sky capture put the building in evidence.Alain

mikolaj_kawa (31335) 2009-10-05 0:53

Czesc Wojciech! Interesujaca budowla, dobry POV, bardzo dobry kadr, poza tym solidna ekspozycja, ladne swiatlo i kolory, bardzo ladny kontrast. Moze sie podobac. Klaniam sie!

plimrn (19740) 2009-10-21 17:59

Witaj Wojciech,
Creative framing and great light management is very effective in minimizing the street clutter that often spoils such compositions. Interesting note as well.
HLJ, Pat