QUEEN LODGING. Particularly a ladies' favorite, the Mary Telfair has a soft, well-dressed feel. One of the luxury inn's facade bay windows affords a majestic view of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist and the manicured park of Lafayette Square. The queen bed and matching armoire and dresser are from the Eastlake Period. The charming bath is beautifully decorated with designer wallpaper and claw foot tub, with brass ring shower. Contact Savannah's family-friendly luxury inn
Tariff: $250
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About Mary Telfair. Mary Telfair (1791-1875) grew up in Savannah, Georgia, where she was the daughter of a wealthy merchant-planter and three-term governor of Georgia. She was a relative of William Gibbons, friend of Peter Cooper, and the last surviving child of Edward Telfair (Revolutionary patriot and early Governor of Georgia). Although reared in the South, she bore no kinship to the plantation mistress living in isolation—alienated by paternalism and male domination. Rather she belonged to an elite circle of urban Southerners who felt as much at home in the drawing rooms of Philadelphia and New York as in the parlors of Charleston and Savannah.
In spite of an eight year legal battle by relatives who disputed her will of 1875, Mary Telfair (a philanthropic woman without heirs) prevailed to bequeath the Telfair mansion and its contents on Telfair Square to the Georgia Historical Society to be used as a public "academy of arts and sciences" (now the Telfair Museum of Arts and Sciences). Miss Telfair was the sole inheritor of the mansion built for her brother Alexander in 1819 by the English architect William Jay. Notable among her other public bequests are the Telfair Hospital (formerly exclusively a woman's hospital located on Park Avenue, on the north end of Forsyth Park), the interiors of the Independent Presbyterian Church, and (with her sister) Hodgson Hall. Mary Telfair is buried in Bonaventure Cemetery. For additional information about Mary Telfair, click here. |
