The Central of Georgia Railway Company Shop Property in Savannah, Georgia, is a railroad complex that dates to 1854. William Morrill Wadley and others designed it in Queen Anne and Romanesque styles. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 5, 1970. The former administration building is now Clark Hall, formerly Eichberg Hall, a branch of the Savannah College of Art and Design School of Building Arts.
The complex also includes a freight house, a brick viaduct, and a cotton yard and brick gates shared with the Central of Georgia Depot and Trainshed. The Gray Building, a Greek Revival structure from 1856, became the company headquarters. It was SCAD's original museum and was named Kiah Hall in 1993.
The Southern Railway acquired the Central Railroad in 1963, which led to the decline of its Savannah buildings. The Depot and Trainshed became a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
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