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The Isaiah Davenport House is a historic home in Savannah, Georgia, United States, built in 1820. It has been operated as a historic house museum by the Historic Savannah Foundation since 1963. The house is located at 324 East State Street, in the northwest corner of Columbia Square .
By 1825, Davenport had nine slave under his authority, the most recent being purchased from his mother-in-law Susannah Clarke. [1] Tenth and final child, Dudley (named for Davenport's brother), was born one month after his father's death. [1] Davenport's wife converted their home it into a boarding house. She lived in the residence until 1840 ...
Cornelia Rankin Groves (April 23, 1926 – October 31, 2021) was an American preservationist. She was one of the founders of Savannah Country Day School and was awarded the highest honor of the Historic Savannah Foundation, the Davenport Award, for her efforts in support of the Isaiah Davenport House.
Six of the 'Seven ladies' who saved the Davenport House and started Savannah's historic preservation movement sat for this photograph in 1983. The monument will be a gray granite "slant marker ...
Isaiah Davenport House, 324 East State Street (1820; on the National Register of Historic Places) Francis M. Stone House, 402 East State Street (1821) "Laura's Cottage", 416 East State Street (circa 1805; moved from Greene Ward) Timothy Bonticou Double House, 418–420 East State Street (1854–1861; moved from East Broughton Lane in 1972)
The Savannah Historic District is a large urban U.S. historic district that roughly corresponds to the pre–Civil War city limits of Savannah, Georgia.The area was declared a National Historic Landmark District in 1966, [1] [3] and is one of the largest urban, community-wide historic preservation districts in the United States. [4]
The office of the foundation is in the southwest tything of the Columbia Square, at the Abraham Sheftall House, 321 East York Street. [1] It had formerly been at the Isaiah Davenport House at 324 East State Street. [9] The Foundation bestows its highest honor, the Davenport Award, on select individuals. [10]
The latest of several multi-story luxury vacation homes operating or planned at the Fantasy Island Resort in Davenport broke ground in August. The Mars-themed rental property could be open by year ...