Marist Place

Marist Place
Marist Place in 2013, when the current business was a partnership
General information
Location	Savannah, Georgia, United States
Address	123 East Charlton Street, Lafayette Square
Coordinates	32°04′21″N 81°05′32″W / 32.07252°N 81.09210°W / 32.07252; -81.09210
Owner	1919 – 1939 Marist School for Boys Present Bergen Bergen & Thomas
Technical details
Floor count	3

Marist Place is a historic building located at 123 East Charlton Street in Savannah, Georgia, United States. It stands in the southwest tything of Lafayette Square, in Savannah's Historic District.

The building was home to the Marist School for Boys between 1919 and 1939.^[1]

A plaque on the building, erected June 9, 1989, by Colonel Joseph B. Bergen, Class of 1939,^[1] reads:

The site of Marist School for Boys, 1919 – 1939, Grammar School Operated by Marist Brothers of the Schools: Last graduating class, June 9, 1939, Rev. Brother Eugene Bergeron, F.M.S., teacher; Reverend Brother Nicholas Whiteside, F.M.S., principal; Rev. Monsignor T. James McNamara, pastor, and Most Reverend Archbishop Gerald P. O’Hara, D.D., J.U.D., Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta.^[1]

Bergen was the senior partner of the current building occupants, attorneys-at-law Bergen Bergen & Thomas,^[2] with his son, Frederick Shearouse Bergen, J.D. He died in 2007, aged 82.^[3]

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  Plaque

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  From Lafayette Square

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Marist Place (Savannah).

• Marist Place - Historical Marker Database
• View of the rear of the property from East Charlton Lane, Google Street View

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