QUEEN LODGING | Private exterior access. The Isaiah Davenport accommodation features soft rose duvet fine bedding, an antique brass and porcelain queen bed. The romantic getaway setting is complete with antique claw foot bathtub and brass ring shower. Unique to this guestroom bath is an enclosed arched brick doorway from the original mansion's wall, plus 24-inch exterior brick exterior walls are exposed. The 1950s-era black and white ceramic tiles truly add to the aura of intimately stepping back into history. The curved private access faces the beautifully manicured park … illuminated at dawn by gaslight-type street lamps.
From the room's private exterior access, gated to allow for an open door breeze, guests escape into Lafayette Square's arched liveoak and Spanish moss canopies … the walker's paradise of historic Savannah Georgia's living garden and southern breezes. An executive favorite, blending Savannah business travel with seduction by the gentlewoman of Savannah herself -- truly an opportunity to find what America has been and can be. Contact Savannah's family-friendly luxury inn
Tariff: $185
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About Isaiah Davenport. At age 23, Isaiah Davenport, a native of Rhode Island, came to Savannah at the turn of the 19th century and quickly found work (as early as 1808) in the rebuilding of the city after the great fire of 1796. Many of Davenport 's works are believed lost to the fire of 1820. On March 15, 1809, Davenport married South Carolinian Sarah Rosamund Clark, who he met while she was living with relatives in Savannah. Three months after they married, the couple leased a lot in Columbia Ward where master builder Isaiah, over a period of five years, built a two-story house and several outbuildings by 1812.
As Savannah reached the mid-20th century, Oglethorpe's neat British town on Yamacraw Bluff was decaying and dirty . In 1946, Britain 's Lady Astor characterized the city as “A beautiful lady with a dirty face.” The demolition of the 1870 Italianated City Market (the surrounding area now a pedestrian streetscape with shops, restaurants, clubs and galleries) and attempted demolition of the 1821 Federal Style Isaiah Davenport House galvanized seven concerned women to organize Historic Savannah Foundation in 1955. The Davenport mansion is at the corner of East State and Habersham Streets on Columbia Square. The Isaiah Davenport house is arguably the single most significant structure in all Savannah with its true value found in its role as the building that initiated the renovation and restoration of the Historic District. One writer shares, “… Today, because [ Savannah 's] good bones survived and were helped by skillful gentrification, it is again one of the country's gems.”
Additionally, reference is found that between 1812 and 1815, a lookout tower and fort known as a Martello tower was constructed on Tybee Island by Isaiah Davenport. To learn more about Isaiah Davenport, click here. |
