The Hampton Lillibridge House is a historic home in Savannah, Georgia, United States. It is located at 507 East St. Julian Street, in the southwestern civic/trust lot of Washington Square, and was built around 1797.[1] One of the oldest extant buildings in Savannah, it is now part of the Savannah Historic District.[1] In a survey for the Historic Savannah Foundation, Mary Lane Morrison found the building, constructed by Rhode Island native Hampton Lillibridge, to be of significant status.[2]
| Hampton Lillibridge House | |
|---|---|
 The building in the mid-20th century at its original location at 310 East Bryan Street | |
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| General information | |
| Location | Savannah, Georgia, U.S. |
| Address | 507 East St. Julian Street |
| Coordinates | 32°04′42″N 81°05′10″W / 32.0783034041°N 81.086084285°W |
| Completed | circa 1797 |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 4 |
Lillibridge died at Shandy Hall, near Savannah, on February 14, 1801,[3] after contracting yellow fever. His widowed second wife, Anna Orford,[4] sold the house, at which point it became a boarding house.[5]
It is one of Savannah's few clapboard houses to have survived the fire of 1820.[6]
The home originally stood at 310 East Bryan Street,[7][8] about 600 feet (180 m) away, in the northwestern residential lot of the adjacent Warren Square. The property was bought by James Arthur Williams in 1969. Believing the house to be haunted, Williams had it exorcised.[9] He moved it to its current location and restored it.[5]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Historic Building Map: Savannah Historic District – Historic Preservation Department of the Chatham County-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission (November 17, 2011)
- ^ Historic Savannah: Survey of Significant Buildings in the Historic and Victorian Districts of Savannah, Georgia, Mary Lane Morrison (1979)
- ^ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 63. New England Historic Genealogical Society. 1909. p. 44.
- ^ The Magazine of History, with Notes and Queries, Volumes 11-12, W. Abbatt (1909), p. 339
- ^ a b "The Hampton Lillibridge House". Southern Flavors Savannah. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
- ^ "Here are some of the most haunted historic sights in Savannah". Savannah, GA | Savannah.com. 2015-09-22. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
- ^ "Hampton Lillibridge House, No. 1, 507 East Julian Street (moved from 310 East Bryan Street), Savannah, Chatham County, GA". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
- ^ "Hampton Lillibridge House architectural drawings". ghs.galileo.usg.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
- ^ Bardsley, Marilyn J. (2012-12-14). After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Rosetta Books. ISBN 978-0-7953-3343-9.
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