304 James Oglethorpe Suite

QUEEN LODGING | Fireplace | Balconies | Whirlpool jacuzzi. Imagine a grand curved top 12-foot door entrance into one of the mansion hotel luxury suites, and walking into a luxury suite with five 12-foot windows overlooking the hotel on the park -- Lafayette Square. Truly, the James Oglethorpe luxury suite is the most Jacuzzi suite in the Savannah hotel mansion inn. With three balconies, a small grand parlor within the chic historic Savannah mansion, and handsome tapestry furniture, this luxury suite also features a handsome antique queen bed with an oversize head-and footboard. A cozy fireplace warms the winter night and completes the tranquil setting … even unlit … year around in the Savannah Georgia luxury mansion. With 15 foot ceilings, the oversize, pleasing to the eye bath replicates the grandeur of the luxury suite with soft green stripe pattern, double sinks and a luxurious jacuzzi whirlpool tub and shower … and two windows overlooking the quietude of historic Savannah's Macon Street.

A favorite with the even the most discriminating VIP travelers who desire a luxury suite for a weekend getaway or romantic honeymoon in Savannah. With a stroll through the historic district, topped off with dinner at Elizabeth's on 37th, truly you will savor a day of luxury leisure to remember in historic Savannah! Reserve your Savannah Georgia hotel luxury suite now

Tariff: $350

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About General James Edward Oglethorpe (1696-1785). James Edward Oglethorpe is credited with founding Georgia. The first group of British settlers landed on Yamacraw Bluff, on the Savannah River sixteen miles inland from the Atlantic Ocean , on February 12, 1733. It was through Oglethorpe's initiatives in England in 1732 that the British government authorized the establishment of its first new colony in North America in more than five decades. As a result of Oglethorpe's persuasive arguments, King George II in 1732 granted a charter for creating Georgia and named Oglethorpe as one of twenty-one royal Trustees to govern the new colony.

The Oxford-educated military officer and parliamentarian intended Georgia as a refuge from poverty, unemployment, and religious persecution. Oglethorpe laid out his infamous plan for the new town of Savannah – a colony to have no lawyers, no alcoholic beverages, no slaves, no Catholics or Jews, and no women land owners. Although charity had been the initial motivation for the Georgia movement, by 1732 military and economic considerations were the principal factors. King George required the efforts of the new colonists to protect Carolina from Spanish settlement in the south.

Oglethorpe returned to England in 1760 to live the life of a gentleman and eventually lived to see the colony that he founded become part of the United States of America . Though the historical record is silent as to how he felt about the American Revolution, it is known that on June 4, 1785, Oglethorpe met with John Adams, the first U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, and expressed "great esteem and regard for America." After a brief illness Oglethorpe died on June 30, 1785—just six months shy of his eighty-ninth birthday. Georgians can perhaps best honor his memory by remembering him as a man who wouldn't quit and who lived by the simple but profound philosophy that life is not about self, but about others.

Daniel Chester French's bronze statue of Georgia founder General James Edward Oglethorpe (facing south, ever watchful for the Spanish invasion from Florida) is located in Chippewa Square in Savannah and unveiled on Nov. 23, 1910 . French and New York architect Henry Bacon collaborated again to design the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC a few years later. For additional information about James Edward Oglethorpe, click here.