The Brice
The building's Houston Street façade in 2021
General information
Architectural styleGreek revival
Location601 East Bay Street
Town or citySavannah, Georgia
CountryUS
Coordinates32°04′44″N 81°05′05″W / 32.0789°N 81.0846°W / 32.0789; -81.0846
Completed1860, 164 years ago
ClientThe Kimpton Brice Hotel
OwnerKimpton Hotels & Restaurants (since 2013, 11 years ago)
Technical details
Floor count3
Floor area91,000 sq ft (8,500 m2)

The Brice is a historic building at 601 East Bay Street in Savannah, Georgia, United States. The building, which is in the Savannah Historic District (itself on the National Register of Historic Places), dates to 1860.[1] At 91,000 sq ft (8,500 m2),[2] it takes up an entire city block (the northeastern residential tything block) of Washington Square, in what was Savannah's Old Fort neighborhood.[3]

A former livery stable, cotton warehouse and (from the early 1900s)[4] Savannah's first Coca-Cola bottling plant,[5] it was converted into a series of hotels, the previous one being the Mulberry Inn, a Holiday Inn franchise, in 1982.[6][7][8] It has been occupied since 2014 by the 145-room Kimpton Brice Hotel.[5][8] (Brice is Gaelic for brick.)[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Historic Building Map: Savannah Historic District – Historic Preservation Department of the Chatham County-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission (November 17, 2011), p. 15
  2. 1 2 The Brice – Green Line Architecture
  3. ↑ "Five key Irish contributors to Savannah’s history, heritage" - Savannah Morning News, March 6, 2019
  4. ↑ Historic Hotels of America (2002)
  5. 1 2 "Hotel Review: The Brice in Savannah" – New York Times, June 25, 2015
  6. ↑ Back Roads & City Streets: Weekend Getaways in and Around Georgia, Colin Bessonette (1984) ISBN 9780931948541
  7. ↑ "Savannah’s Mulberry Inn sold" – Savannah Morning News, January 1, 2013
  8. 1 2 "Tributes to the Past Highlight Overhaul of Brice Hotel" – Lodging Magazine, May 8, 2014


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