The Brice Explained

The Brice
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Coordinates:32.0789°N -81.0846°W
Location:601 East Bay Street
Location Town:Savannah, Georgia
Location Country:US
Floors:3
Owner:Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants (since 2013,)
Client:The Kimpton Brice Hotel
Style:Greek revival

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, it takes up an entire city block (the northeastern residential tything block) of Washington Square, in what was Savannah's Old Fort neighborhood.[2]

A former livery stable, cotton warehouse and (from the early 1900s)[3] Savannah's first Coca-Cola bottling plant,"Hotel Review: The Brice in Savannah"New York Times, June 25, 2015 it was converted into a series of hotels, the previous one being the Mulberry Inn, a Holiday Inn franchise, in 1982.[4] [5] It has been occupied since 2014 by the 145-room Kimpton Brice Hotel.[6] (Brice is Gaelic for brick.)The Brice – Green Line Architecture

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  1. https://www.thempc.org/docs/lit/hist/maps/supplement.pdf Historic Building Map: Savannah Historic District
  2. https://www.savannahnow.com/special/20190306/five-key-irish-contributors-to-savannahs-history-heritage "Five key Irish contributors to Savannah’s history, heritage"
  3. Historic Hotels of America (2002)
  4. Back Roads & City Streets: Weekend Getaways in and Around Georgia, Colin Bessonette (1984)
  5. https://www.savannahnow.com/article/20130101/NEWS/301019880 "Savannah’s Mulberry Inn sold"
  6. https://lodgingmagazine.com/tributes-to-the-past-highlight-overhaul-of-brice-hotel/ "Tributes to the Past Highlight Overhaul of Brice Hotel"