Hyman Witcover

Witcover was born in Darlington, South Carolina, in 1871, to Wolf and Dora.[2]

At age 17, he moved to Savannah, Georgia, where he began work as a draftsman for noted architect Alfred Eichberg.[2]

Witcover served on the board of the Congregation Mickve Israel and on the first board of Savannah's public library.[2]

He served in the Georgia Hussars as a private, and was also in the Freemasonry fraternity.[2]

Witcover married Agnes Dillon.[3]

Witcover died on October 2, 1936, in his hometown of Darlington, where he had returned to live with two of his sons.[2] He was 65. He is interred in Fort Lincoln Cemetery in Brentwood, Maryland, alongside his wife, who predeceased him by four years.[3]

Notable works

Savannah City Hall, Witcover's most noted design

• One or more works in Savannah's Ardsley Park-Chatham Crescent Historic District[4]
• Old Effingham County Courthouse, Springfield, Georgia[1]
• Germania Bank (1904, later known as the Blun Building, demolished in 1975)[5]
• Savannah City Hall, Savannah, Georgia (1905)[5]
• Hicks Hotel (circa 1914)[5]
• Scottish Rite Masonic Temple, Savannah, Georgia (1912)
• Liberty Bank and Trust (1915)[5]
• Bnai Brith Jacob synagogue[5]
• Old Judicial Building, Montgomery, Alabama, as a Scottish Rite Temple (1926)[6]