This paper reports on exploratory testing carried out for the firms of Parsons Brinckerhoff and Lominack, Jewett and Spencer at the Red Building, a National Register structure located along West Broad Street, in Savannah, Georgia. Attention was focused on the examination of a cellar composed of Savannah grey bricks found under the wooden flooring of the building. Examination revealed that the structure was a cellar, probably modified in the 1880's to support a boiler. The cellar itself can be shown from documentary sources to have been in existence prior to 1801. Discovery of a cellar at this level of the ground indicates that the leveling attributed to the Central of Georgia may not have occurred in the area north of the Louisville Road and the original ground surface in this area may still be intact. In association with this interpretation, it should be pointed out that West Broad Street must therefore be seen as having been raised some eight to ten feet since 1801.
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