Savannah Historic District

Savannah Historic District
Savannah, GA
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Savannah's Historic District is designated a National Historic Landmark.  The district is especially significant for its distinctive grid plan as well as its 18th and 19th century architecture.  The area encompasses the original town plan laid out in 1733 by Gen. James E. Oglethorpe, founder of the British colony of Georgia (whose commemorative statue stands in Chippewa Square).

Today Savannah retains much of this plan based on divisions also called wards, squares, and "trustee lots". Most of the original squares remain and are surrounded by fine examples of buildings in the Georgian, Greek Revival, and Gothic styles. Notable buildings include the Owens-Thomas House built in 1818 (Oglethorpe square),  the Spencer Woodbridge House built in 1795 (Habersham Street), and the 1853 Gothic Revival Greene House (Madison Square).  Important sites associated with the African American community in the district include the Beach Institute (East Harris St.), constructed in 1865 as the city's first black school, and the King-Tisdell Cottage, the 1896 home of a working-class African American family.

The boundaries of the Savannah Historic District are the Savannah River, E. Broad Street, Gwinnett Street, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. Self-guided tours of Savannah are available from the Savannah Visitor Center, in the restored Central of Georgia railroad station.

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