QUEEN LODGING. Located on the second floor of the carriage house, the room features French doors overlooking beautiful Charlton Street. Quiet leisure or group travel collaborations are available in the shared sitting room of the carriage house and via private access to the courtyard gardens. Comfortable chairs and charming cottage decor complete this pretty room with an antique queen bed and dresser. The private bath includes a combination tub and shower. Contact Savannah's family-friendly luxury inn
Tariff: $185
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About Conrad Potter Aiken (1889-1973). The Pulitzer Prizing winning American poet, short story writer, critic and novelist was born in Savannah, Georgia, on August 5, 1889, the eldest of four children of a prominent doctor from New York, William Aiken. The author's mother, Anna, was the daughter of a prominent Massachusetts Unitarian minister. Mr. Aiken's was born in the 1878 mansion now known as Magnolia Place Inn on Forsyth Park. As a child he lived in the Mary Marshall Row, a series of historic Greek Revival townhouses on Oglethorpe Street between Abercorn and Lincoln streets. Southern Living magazine describes the Aiken's original home: "… an 1878 structure overlooking the verdant sprawl of Forsyth Park... one of the mansions that arose around the Victorian park, the mansion on Forsyth Park was four years under construction."
Conrad Aiken, Poet and Man of Letters, was born in Savannah on August 5, 1889, and lived at No. 228 Oglethorpe Avenue until 1901. After the tragic deaths of his parents, he was moved to New England. Most of his writing career was divided between Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Rye, England. In 1962 he returned to Savannah to live and write in the adjoining house, No. 230 Oglethorpe Avenue until his death August 17, 1973. Of his hometown, he wrote: "Born in that most magical of cities, Savannah, I was allowed to run wild in that earthly paradise until I was nine; ideal for the boy who early decided he wanted to write."
Though he wrote novels, short stories and critical essays, his first love was poetry. His work earned many awards including the Pulitzer Prize (1930), National Book Award (1954), and the National medal of literature (1969). He was a member of the national Academy of Arts and Sciences and held the Chair of poetry of the Library of Congress (1950 to 1952). Governor Jimmy Carter appointed him Poet Laureate of Georgia on March 30, 1973. Conrad Aiken is buried beside his parents in Bonaventure Cemetery. Before he died, Aiken had a marble bench erected next to his parents' graves in Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery. It contained two epitaphs: "Give my love to the world" and "Cosmos Mariner Destination Unknown." Mr. Aiken is buried beside his parents in Bonaventure Cemetery. John Berendt, author of “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” is reported to have visited Bonaventure Cemetery with his elderly friend, Mary Harty and sipped martinis on the grave of the poet Conrad Aiken. To learn more about Conrad Aiken, click here. |
