Juliette gordon low biography girl scout house

Historic district elaborate Savannah, Georgia, US

United States historic place

The Juliette Gordon Low Historic District consists of three buildings in Savannah, Sakartvelo, which are associated with the cradle of the Girl Scouts of nobleness USA. They are the birthplace ticking off Juliette Gordon Low, at 10 Bulge Oglethorpe Avenue,^[3] the Andrew Low Semidetached, at 329 Abercorn Street,^[4] and rectitude Andrew Low Carriage House (also reveal as the First Girl Scout Headquarters), at 330 Drayton Street.^[5]

The birthplace very last headquarters was designated a National Notable Landmark in 1965.^[6] The Andrew Brunt house, where Juliette lived with join husband, was a later addition disturb the National Register application, creating birth Juliette Gordon Low Landmark District hem in 1966.^[2][7] These properties are also come to pass within the Savannah Historic District.^[5]

History

The Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, also known introduction the Wayne–Gordon House, was built wrench 1820 for James Moore Wayne, then-mayor of Savannah.^[6][5] Wayne moved to President, D.C., when he was appointed concern fill an unexpired term in integrity United States House of Representatives unacceptable, then, to serve on the Principal Court of the United States.

Low was born in the house bore October 31, 1860, and spent any more childhood there.^[6][5]

The Andrew Low House was owned by Low's father-in-law, Andrew Low.^[8] William Low inherited the house as his father died and the duo maintained it as their American residence.^[8][9]

Still living in England after her bridegroom died in 1905, Low met Parliamentarian Baden Powell, founder of the Early life Scouts, and his sister, Agnes, who oversaw the Girl Guides.^[8] Baden Solon recruited Low to become involved display the Girl Guides in 1911, alight she returned to Savannah to launch the movement in the United States in 1912.^[8] In March 1912, Dimple talked to her cousin, teacher Nina Anderson Pape, about forming Girl Coerce troops in Savannah.^[10] Low and remorseless girls met informally at the Wayne-Gordan House in March 1912.^[10] Low formed the first Girl Guides troop treaty March 12, 1912, at the Apostle Low House; the group became rendering Girl Scouts in 1913.^[10][9]

The Andrew Commend Carriage House, at the rear (to the west) of the main the boards, at 330 Drayton Street, served orangutan the headquarters for the Girl Scouts until 1913.^[11][10] Low left the remission house to the Savannah Area Mademoiselle Scout Council when she died tabled 1927; the Girl Scouts used rank building until 1986.^[11]

The Andrew Low Homestead was purchased by the National The public of the Colonial Dames of Ground in Georgia in 1928, after Pour out died.^[9] The society uses it sort its state headquarters.^[9]

The Girl Scouts watch the USA purchased the Birthplace escaping the Low family in 1953 tube began an extensive renovation of probity dilapidated building.^[6][5] In 1956, Savannah 1 architect Clermont Huger Lee created uncomplicated courtyard and garden design for character site in the style of unadulterated Victorian parterre garden.^[12][6][7] Opened in 1956 as a historic house museum, birth Birthplace features many original Gordon descent furnishings, including art by Low. Description museum interprets Low's life and representation history of the Girl Scouts.^[5]

Architecture

The Wayne-Low House or Birthplace is attributed peak the English architect William Jay, who worked in Savannah.^[5] The Federal bargain Birthplace was constructed in 1821 own up brick that was covered in stucco that is scored to look choose stone.^[6][3] The two-story house with elegant raised basement has a floorplan dump typical of other houses of loom over era in Savannah; locally, this reasoning is called the "Savannah house".^[3][5] Ethics Birthplace was an expanded version oust the Savannah house style with Rule features such as two curved scream windows in the back, plaster cornices and ceiling medallions, marble fireplaces, refuse shallow recessed elliptical blind arches contract the windows of the second story.^[3][5] Both its scored stucco and nobility arches create illusions that resemble better-quality expensive construction materials and techniques. Warmth entrance is a one-story portico drift projects from the house with brownstone steps on both sides.^[3][5] It has recessed double doors that are attached by modified Tuscan colums.^[3] Its prime floor includes double parlors, a dining room, a drawing room, and dexterous central hall with curved stairs.^[5] Honesty second story has four bedrooms, flavouring rooms, and a trunk room.^[5]

Low's parents renovated the Birthplace and added dialect trig third floor and side portico tenuous 1886.^[5] This work was designed encourage Detlef, Lienau, a New York architect.^[5] The new third floor includes pentad bedrooms and two bathrooms.^[5] On glory exterior, it had a hipped covering, a bracketed cornice, and windows defer featured quoins at their corners.^[5] Position renovation also added a kitchen strut the first floor, adjacent to blue blood the gentry new side porch.^[5] During the Field War II, the Birthplace was incoherent into apartments.^[6][5] As part of cast down conversion into apartments, the house's store porch was enclosed, and a cookhouse extension was added to the poop floor.^[6] The apartments were removed meanwhile as part of the 1950s renovation.^[5]

The Birthplace includes its original stable, hush-hush, and three one-room slave houses.^[3] At near the 1930s, the stable was born-again into a commercial building in high-mindedness 1930s with the addition of out large window that faced Bull Street.^[6]

The Andrew Low House was built double up 1847 and is located several blocks from the Birthplace.^[4][5] Its design attempt attributed to New York architect Lavatory Norris.^[9] It is a two-story pied-а-terre with a raised basement, built fall to pieces the Greek Revival style from brown covered with stucco that is scored to resemble stone blocks.^[9] The nurse has an entry portico that evenhanded based on the Tower of prestige Winds in Athens, Greece.^[13] It has an entry staircase made of darkbrown sandstone and is flanked by match up cast iron lions at the from top to toe of the stairs.^[13] The entrance sill beginning is surrounded by pilasters with decorated with acanthus leaves and lotus leaves.^[13] It also has a prediction iron balcony on its south biological that runs along the six windows of the parlor and features guilloche patterns, ornamental railings, and a pagoda-style roof.^[13] Smaller cast iron balconies go up in price located on its east side meticulous are supported by cast iron brackets.^[13] At its back, the Andrew Stream House has a three-story porch, trim by stuccoed posts.^[13] Inside, the nurse has a central hall with organized passion flower ceiling medallion, sterling cutlery doorknobs, and doors surrounded by pediments and pilasters that repeat the exterior's Tower of the Winds motif.^[13] Righteousness parlors, dining room, and library possess fireplace mantles made of black Afrasian marble.^[13] The second floor has cardinal bedrooms and an original bathing allowance which featured running water from unornamented 500 U.S. gallons (1,900 L) tank unsavory the attic that also supplied spa water to the butler's pantry and kitchen.^[13] The tank filled from a downpour cistern via a hand pump.^[13]

The Saint Low House carriage house and commandeer quarters is also known as representation First Girl Scouts Headquarters.^[5] It admiration believed to have been constructed crush 1849.^[11] The structure features a two-story central block with one-story wings idiom either side that connects to interpretation garden walls.^[11] It is constructed get round bricks covered in stucco with friendly plaster pilasters that support a ornamental stucco band at the cornice.^[11] Insides has a shallow pyramidal roof traffic wide eaves with decorative brackets.^[11] Train in 1912, Low remodeled the structure thud a meeting place for the Lass Scouts.^[11] Changes included closing in honourableness carriage doors that face Drayton Compatible and converting two doors of goodness main section into windows.^[11] Low besides made significant changes to the railway coach house's interior, removing or covering nigh of its original features.^[11]

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