Lower Stoddard Range

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'''Lower Stoddard Range''' is a historic range of buildings in Savannah, Georgia, United States. Located in Savannah's Historic District, the addresses of some of the properties are East Bay Street, above Factors Walk, while others solely utilize the former King Cotton warehouses on River Street. As of February 2022, the businesses occupying the ground floor of the River Street elevation are: Boar's Head Grill & Tavern, Savannah's Candy Kitchen, Gallery 209 and Christmas on the River.

The building stands adjacent to Archibald Smith Stores, the two separated only by steps leading to and from River Street and Factors Walk.

The building was constructed by 1858 by John Stoddard (1809–1879),<ref>[https://www.loc.gov/item/2017886570/ Stoddards Lower Range from Factory Walk, River Street, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia] – Library of Congress</ref><ref>''The National Trust Guide to Savannah'', Roulhac Toledano (1997), p. 67 {{isbn|9780471155683}}</ref> on foundations that were previously the three lower tiers of the early-19th-century Simon Fraser Stores (western portion of the range) and Samuel Howard Stores (eastern portion). Fraser's property was known colloquially as Coffee House Wharf.<ref>''Columbia Museum & Savannah Advertiser'', January 12, 1798</ref>

Factors Edgar L. Guerard and Edward L. Holcombe (1840–1875), formerly a major for the Confederates in the Civil War,<ref>''Savannah Morning News'' December 22, 1875</ref> were operating their general commission and shipping merchants enterprise from "5 Stoddard's Lower Range, Bay Street" in 1869.<ref>''Historical Record of the City of Savannah'', Frederick David Lee and J. L. Agnew (1869), p. 41</ref> At number 7, meanwhile, Grantham Israel Taggart (1828–1905)<ref>Chatham County, Georgia Archives Biographies</ref> was providing a similar service, under the name Taggart & Company, in addition to offering anthracite and bituminous coal.<ref>''Historical Record of the City of Savannah'', Frederick David Lee and J. L. Agnew (1869), p. 45</ref>

In 1898, during the Spanish–American War, the signal corps had their command headquarters in the range.<ref>''Addresses Delivered Before the Confederate Veterans Association, of Savannah, Ga'', Confederate Veterans Association of Savannah, Georgia (1898), p. 28</ref>

The buildings that comprise ''Upper'' Stoddard Range are at 12–42 East Bay Street, to the west of the lower range.

==Detail== <gallery> File:Building in Savannah 2021b.jpg|A section centered on 225 East Bay Street, viewed from River Street File:202-206 East Bay Street (201-205 East River Street) (1823).jpg|201–205 East River Street, built circa 1823, with the Archibald Smith Stores on the right File:208-210-212-214 East Bay Street (207-209 East River Street) (1858).jpg|207–209 East River Street File:Lower Stoddard Range (west).jpg|Above River Street and Factors Walk, 208 East Bay Street at the western end of the range File:Stoddard’s Lower Range, 220-230 East Bay Street.jpg|The rear of 220–230 East Bay Street around 1940 </gallery>

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