Bull Street

Bull Street
	Savannah College of Art and Design's (SCAD) Poetter Hall at 342 Bull Street, immediately south of Madison Square
Namesake	William Bull
Length	3.39 mi (5.46 km)
Location	Savannah, Georgia, U.S.
North end	Bay Street
South end	Derenne Avenue

Bull Street is a major street in Savannah, Georgia, United States. Named for Colonel William Bull (1683–1755),^[1] it runs from Bay Street in the north to Derenne Avenue (part of State Route 21) in the south. It is around 3.40 miles in length, not including the section interrupted by Forsyth Park. It is the center of a National Historic Landmark District.^[2]

Savannah City Hall sits opposite the northern end of Bull Street, on Bay Street.

Bull Street goes around five of Savannah's 22 squares. They are (from north to south):

A memorial in the Oglethorpe Avenue median marks what is today known as the Bull Street Cemetery, with a plaque stating: "Original 1733 burial plot allotted by James Edward Oglethorpe to the Savannah Jewish Community". On November 3, 1761, George III "conveyed a certain half lot of land in Holland Tything, Percival Ward, to David Truan." This land was at the northwest corner of today's Bull Street and Oglethorpe Avenue. Several Jews were interred here before the family cemeteries were established.^[3]

Notable buildings and structures

Below is a selection of notable buildings and structures on Bull Street, all in Savannah's Historic District. From north to south:^[4]

Name	Ward	Address	Date	Note
The Citizens and Southern Bank	Derby Ward	22 Bull Street	1907	now Bank of America
Christ Church	Derby Ward	28 Bull Street	1838/1897
Lutheran Church of the Ascension	Percival Ward	120 Bull Street (21 East State Street, includes Drayton Street)	1879
Tomochichi Federal Building and United States Courthouse	Percival Ward	125 Bull Street	1899
Independent Presbyterian Church	Brown Ward	207 Bull Street	1817/1891
The Savannah Theatre	Brown Ward	222 Bull Street	1820
James Oglethorpe Monument	Brown Ward	Chippewa Square	1910
First Baptist Church	Brown Ward	223 Bull Street	1833/1922
Masonic Temple	Jasper Ward	341 Bull Street	1912	now the Gryphon Tea Room, by Freemason Hyman W. Witcover
Poetter Hall	Jasper Ward	340-344 Bull Street	1893	by William G. Preston
St. John's Episcopal Church	Jasper Ward	325 Bull Street	1853	by Calvin N. Otis
Charles W. Rogers Duplex	Monterey Ward	423-425 Bull Street	1858	by John S. Norris; later the home of Lee Adler and his wife Emma
Mercer Williams House	Monterey Ward	429 Bull Street	1871	by John S. Norris, restored by James Arthur Williams
440 Bull Street	Monterey Ward	440 Bull Street	1900
Armstrong House	Monterey Ward	447 Bull Street	1917	now the Armstrong Kessler Mansion; formerly bought and restored by James Arthur Williams
Edmund Molyneux House	Monterey Ward	450 Bull Street	1857	now The Oglethorpe Club, by John S. Norris

The Gingerbread House, a popular tourist attraction in the Savannah Victorian Historic District, is at 1921 Bull Street,^[5] opposite Bull Street Library. It was built by Cord Asendorf Sr. in 1899.^[6]

References in popular culture

The street is also featured several times in John Berendt's 1994 book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. In the introduction to the subsequent 1997 movie, Irma P. Hall's character Minerva says to a squirrel sat beside her on a bench in Forsyth Park: "Quit eyeballin' me, Flavis. I knew you when you was a two-bit hustler on Bull Street."

References

^ Savannah's Bull Street: The Man Behind Its Name – B. H. Levy
^ Bull Street: Savannah, Georgia – Planning.org
^ Savannah's Old Jewish Burial Ground, The Georgia Historical Quarterly, volume 34, no. 4 (December 1950), p. 267
^ Historic Building Map: Savannah Historic District – Historic Preservation Department of the Chatham County-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission (November 17, 2011)
^ Gingerbread House official website
^ "Savannah's 'gingerbread' house under new ownership". Savannah Morning News. Retrieved June 10, 2022.

External links

Bull Street – Savannah.com

[1] Savannah's Bull Street: The Man Behind Its Name – B. H. Levy

[2] Bull Street: Savannah, Georgia – Planning.org

[3] Savannah's Old Jewish Burial Ground, The Georgia Historical Quarterly, volume 34, no. 4 (December 1950), p. 267

[4] Historic Building Map: Savannah Historic District – Historic Preservation Department of the Chatham County-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission (November 17, 2011)

[5] Gingerbread House official website

[6] "Savannah's 'gingerbread' house under new ownership". Savannah Morning News. Retrieved June 10, 2022.

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v t e Major streets of downtown Savannah, Georgia
North–south running	Abercorn Street Barnard Street Bull Street Drayton Street East Broad Street Habersham Street Houston Street Jefferson Street Lincoln Street Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard Montgomery Street Price Street Tattnall Street Whitaker Street
East–west running	Bay Street Broughton Street Bryan Street Charlton Street Congress Street Gaston Street Gordon Street Harris Street Hull Street Jones Street Liberty Street Oglethorpe Avenue Perry Street River Street State Street Taylor Street York Street