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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SUMMER 2008 AT THE DAVENPORT HOUSE
JUNIOR INTERPRETER TRAINING -
Junior Interpreter Summer Training for high school age students will begin on June 19. Teenagers are trained to give tours of the Davenport House Museum over an eight week program culminating in Junior Interpreter Day on Friday, August 8 when the newly trained interpreters "run the house.’ For information about Junior Interpreter Day contact Jamie Credle at info@davenporthousemuseum.org or call (912) 236-8097.
FOR VETERAN JUNIOR INTERPRETERS -
Veteran JI's meet during the summer for a program of exercise and experience which includes walking all 22 existing squares and viewing most significant monuments in the Landmark Historic District.
ADULT DOCENT TRAINING -
Docent training will be offered to adults in July. Over the four week program they will learn the museum’s interpretation as well as Savannah history and the basics of curatorship in a house museum. For information or to sign up contact Jamie Credle at info@davenporthousemusuem.org or phone (912) 236-8097.
COMING IN OCTOBER -
Just wait until Fall! The museum’s award winning living history program will focus on the visit of "our Nation’s Guest", General Lafayette, to Savannah in 1825. The talk will be of pageantry, excitement and the realities of daily life! Keep an eye in this website for detail or contact us as above.
The Davenport House is a property of Historic Savannah Foundation. |
www.historicsavannahfoundation.org
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