{"nrhp_refnum":"91000558","name":"Drouillard-Maupas House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2422 Abercorn St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Savannah","county":"Chatham County","state":"GA","lat":32.053327746000036,"lon":-81.09877189699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-05-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A raised coastal cottage at 2422 Abercorn Street in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, probably built around 1799 as a plantation house for Andre Drouillard. It sits on a small urban lot of about 0.17 acre.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a rare surviving late 18th-century coastal cottage, with a wood-framed second floor raised on a masonry first floor. It is described as one of the few remaining 18th-century buildings in Georgia, and it is significant at the state level under Criterion C for architecture.","narrative":"This raised cottage on Abercorn Street in Savannah dates to about 1799 and was first the plantation house of Andre Drouillard, an emigre from the French West Indies who reached Savannah around 1797. The first floor is Savannah grey brick, and the weatherboarded second floor is wood-framed. A shed-roofed front porch on brick piers, with square chamfered posts and a simple balustrade, is reached by an exterior stair. Each floor has a central hallway with a room on either side, and the front and rear doors helped cool the house in humid weather. Drouillard's grandson, John Maupas, later ran a dairy farm here. The house left the family in the 1940s and has been in commercial use since. The rear porch was enclosed in the 1930s and a concrete-block wing was added in the 1950s, yet the main house kept its integrity. It was listed as a rare late 18th-century coastal cottage, one of few such buildings left in Georgia.","period_of_significance":"C. 1799","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other: Coastal Cottage","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Changed to commercial use in the 1940s and still in commercial use at the time of nomination; surrounding buildings are all nonhistoric.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.8911-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/91000558.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000558/fc28edcecb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000558/fc28edcecb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ebyabe","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GA_Savannah_Drouillard-Maupas_House01.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ebyabe</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GA_Savannah_Drouillard-Maupas_House01.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"85001787","name":"Ardsley Park-Chatham Crescent Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/ardsley-park-chatham-crescent-historic-district-85001787/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207288","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134149177"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/chatham-county/drouillard-maupas-house-91000558/"}