This fine Federal-style home was completed by master-builder Isaiah Davenport as his family residence in 1820. Authentically restored, the house museum features original plasterwork, a cantilever staircase and furnishings true to the 1820s. The site also features a courtyard garden that was originally a Bicentennial project of the Trustees' Garden Club and was later re-designed by noted horticulturist Penelope Hobhouse. Threatened with demolition in 1955, the saving of the Davenport House was the first effort of the Historic Savannah Foundation and the beginning of the historic preservation renaissance in this port city.
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COMING UP IN THE MONTHS AHEAD
Coming Soon!
Information about the living history program to be produced on Friday and Saturday nights in October.
YELLOW FEVER: Savannah’s 1820 Epidemic!
Beginning in June -
Summer is Junior Interpreter time at the DH.
First year Junior Interpreter training takes place on Thursday evenings from 6 to 8 p.m. from June 18 through July 30. August 6 and 7 are Junior Interpreter Days at the museum when newly trained teenage tour guides give their first tours to the public.
Second year Junior Interpreters and other veteran JIs have programming on Mondays beginning June 15.
Junior Interpreters are the museums investment in the future!
The Davenport House is a property of Historic Savannah Foundation. |
www.historicsavannahfoundation.org
www.gacoastalmuseums.org
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