Savannah’s City Hall is sited on Yamacraw Bluff overlooking the Savannah River where General James Oglethorpe landed in 1733. The government first conducted business here in the City Exchange in 1799, side-by-side with the post office and the town’s newspaper office. The building was razed in 1904 and replaced with Savannah’s first building constructed specifically as a City Hall. Local architect Hyman Wallace Witcover did the design honors with a proportional Renaissance Revvial plan, working with a budget of $205,167 that included ornate statues of chariots and horses atop the structure that were never built.
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