Curator’s Tour of If These Walls Could Talk: 200 Years of William Jay Architecture
October 6, 2019 at 3pm Telfair Academy- This event has passed.
Members free / non-members free with museum admission.
Shannon Browning-Mullis, Curator of History and Decorative Arts, will lead a tour of the exhibition If These Walls Could Talk: 200 Years of William Jay Architecture.
In the three short years between his arrival from England in 1817 to his departure for Charleston in 1820, William Jay changed the face of Savannah. In a time when many Americans sought to distance themselves from European influence and develop a national character of their own, a few, including Richard Richardson, Alexander Telfair, William Scarbrough, and Archibald Stobo Bulloch, still sought the classical elegance of the popular English Regency style. Jay delivered the luxurious showplaces they desired and also elevated Savannah’s civic life with a new theater, a design for the Savannah Branch of the Second Bank of the United States, and a new Customs House.
Explore Jay’s life, travels, and most importantly his designs as we celebrate 200 years of William Jay architecture in Savannah.
To register, please contact Calli Laundré at 912.790.8807 or laundrec@telfair.org.
