Student Center

Located on Montgomery Street near Savannah’s bustling Broughton Street corridor, the SCAD Student Center serves as a social hub for students and hosts the offices of Student Involvement and the Inter-Club Council on its entry level.

Designed by celebrated Jewish architect Hyman Witcover, the building opened in 1909 as a synagogue for the Congregation B'nai B'rith of Savannah. Classified as an exotic revival building, it features stylistic motifs like keyhole arches, defining windows with arabesque patterns, intricately carved and corbelled details, and Moorish-style domes. After the congregation outgrew the space and moved to a larger building, the synagogue was purchased by St. Andrew’s Independent Episcopal Church in 1969. St. Andrew’s congregants worshiped there until 2002. SCAD acquired the building the following year and rededicated the space as the SCAD Student Center in 2006.