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William Jay Signature
Works
Biographical Sketch
Albion Chapel
Academy of Fine Arts
Branch Bank
Archibald Bulloch
Augusta Theatre
City Hotel
Columbia Place
Courthouses & Jails
Customs House
Fireproof Building
Independent Chapel
Literary Saloon
Marine Villa
Mauritius Chapel
Monroe Pavilion
Paragon Buildings
Patrick Duncan
Pittville Parade
Richard Richardson
Robert Habersham
Savannah Free School
Savannah Theatre
William Scarbrough
William Mason Smith
Alexander Telfair
Watermoor House
Joseph Turpin Weyman

The House That Jay Built

Related Sites
1827 Map of London
Digital Library of Georgia
Telfair Museum of Art
Sir John Soane Musem
Beehive Foundation
Savannah Theatre
Historic Charleston
Ashley Hall Campus
Middleton Place
Shoreditch College
Ships of the Sea Museum
1886 Charleston Quake
Brockwell Hall

Recommended Reading
Ashley Hall Campus History
Gamble: Romance of William Jay
English Glass Chandeliers
Classical Savannah
Nostrums for Fashionable Entertainments
London and Its Environs
In the 19th Century

Autobiography of
[Reverend] William Jay

Morning Exercises
Stained Glass Art of
William Jay Bolton

Ackermann's
Costume Plates

Neoclassical Ornament
Designs

Ackermann's Regency
Furniture and Interiors

Charleston in 1883
Robert Mills:Atlas of the
State of South Carolina

Guide and Index to the
Papers of Robert Mills

Robert Mills's
Courthouses & Jails

Robert Mills: Architect
All-together American
The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston
The Georgia Catalog

Owens-Thomas House Museum
Richard Richardson House
Oglethorpe Square
Savannah, Georgia

The house foundation was begun in 1816 while Jay was still in England. It was completed in 1819 and distinguished by a concave entrance niche--a feature to reappear in several other works. Lafayette may have given his 1825 address from the acanthus balcony. Jay also built the Savannah Theatre and the Branch Bank through his connection to Richardson.

Bow-Shaped Portico and Entrance Niche Acanthus Balcony

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