The Hamilton-Turner Inn -- a media friendly, Savannah luxury bed and breakfast mansion -- is pleased to coordinate with journalists, publishers, news producers, photographers and artists. Since 1872, the frequently photographed mansion has a rich reputation, one which is "historically, the talk of the town."

Best known for its Mid Victorian and Second French Empire architecture, the historic Savannah mansion is an imposing luxury bed and breakfast showplace … featuring a quiet park setting, butterfly gardens and unforgettable historic Savannah backdrop. Fine pleasures and comfort prevails … ever blended with the infamous southern hospitality of the American south … and Savannah Georgia.

The Lafayette Square park mansion provides leisured social accommodations for the discerning guest, executive, the cultured Savannah Georgia family vacation, historic Savannah romantic weddings and honeymoon, tourism traveler … as well as distinctive business retreat setting.

The notoriety of the mansion range from its high society pedigree of a post-Civil War, ever genteel Savannah - the town that the Union Army of General Sherman did not burn; to the first building in Savannah with electricity; to being the home of Doc Turner, the eccentric electric car advocate of 20th century Savannah; to a model for Disneyland's Haunted House; to the party house of the New York best selling John Berendt novel and Clint Eastwood movie, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Jane Sales, Press Relations and Media Contact
Tel: 912-233-1833 or Toll free 888-448-8849
Fax: 912-233-0291
Email: Info@Hamilton-TurnerInn.com

LUXURY INN PHOTOS
Many of the luxury inn's high resolution photos can be freely shared for press publication and media features. Photos in the media preview (dragable slide show) offer a sample of our high resolution photos. Photo downloads require an introductory email request, stating the purpose of use and your contact information -- email ATTN: Jane Sales. A download hyperlink will be sent for approved publications.

PRESS RELEASE

Kids Cooking With the Chefs at Hamilton --Turner Inn Mansion
An Antidote to “I'm Bored!” for the Holidays
[SAVANNAH – October 16, 2004] Instead of saying, “I'm bored!” imaginative youngsters may choose a new creative outlet for the long December holidays – cooking with the chefs at the Hamilton-Turner Inn mansion in Savannah .
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Big on Style and Architecture -- The Timeless Southern Mansion Wedding
Photographically Enhanced at Historic Savannah 's Hamilton-Turner Inn
[SAVANNAH – October 16, 2004] As the classically attired bride stands in the doorway of the Hamilton-Turner mansion, an onlooker might question the serenity of the scene. The photographer would not. A graceful ambiance hovers gently around the composed bride, fashionably framing one everlasting moment.
Is it the Second French Empire architecture, the 12 foot doors and windows, the quiet bustle of Lafayette Square , the heirloom furnishings or the grand entryway? Innkeeper Jane Sales answers, "It is all of those and more. The mansion evokes a feel of all the special events and memorable moments that have taken place here over the last one hundred and thirty years. Real people have laughed and loved in this wonderful mansion."
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Kids Discover Historic Savannah GA at Hamilton-Turner Inn --
The Smartly Upscale Family Vacation
Imaginative families are discovering the smartly upscale, southern Savannah, Georgia, as a sophisticated family vacation destination spot. Davon, a nine month old, enjoyed his first silver dollar pancake with powdered sugar at the Hamilton-Turner Inn in historic Savannah. [more... click for full release]

Hamilton-Turner Inn: Historically, the Talk of the Town
[SAVANNAH - September 30, 2004] With an irreverent legacy - that of a rapscallion's party house - new owners of the Hamilton-Turner Inn recently discovered a high society pedigree for their elegant Mid Victorian manor. Built on Lafayette Square in historic Savannah Georgia for Samuel Pugh Hamilton's family of eight, the sumptuous 4-story mansion has rebuffed two major Savannah fires, stands stalwart to its fame as the first Savannah building with electricity, and honors its merciful salvation by the Historic Savannah Foundation.
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Hamilton-Turner: Society Mansion
Hamilton-Turner: Samuel Pugh Hamilton, "The Lord of Lafayette Square"
Hamilton-Turner: Original Architecture (ca. Christmas 1873)
Hamilton-Turner: Lafayette Square
Savannah Tour Tidbits

• Conde' Nast Traveler: " Great Drives: The Right Route—South Carolina and Georgia " features Hamilton-Turner Inn (May 2002)
• "Smitten with Savannah," Country Discoveries , January - February 2005, features the Hamilton-Turner Inn, noting the mansion's historical significance as "Savannah's first home with electricity."
• "Deep South," Esquire, International Japanese Edition, October 2004. Altavista Translator .
• "In John Berendt's best-selling tome["Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil'], which chronicles the eccentricities of this most southern of cities, the four-story Second Empire chateau, built in 1873, was one of the places where the impoverished aristocrat Joe Odom and his girlfriend, Mandy, lived. In the charming rascally way that epitomizes the lifestyle of Odom, he charged a fee for touring the house and he didn't even own it.... In much the same way that the Turner Hamilton Inn [sic] has risen again, so has Savannah." -- "Savannah's good and evil," Northwest Indiana Times, Travel, September 19, 2004
• L'Express Magazine features Savannah ("...capital of cotton recovered all its splendor. And invites to sublime strolls architectural") and Hamilton-Turner Inn -- "Roomy rooms, period furniture, family atmosphere: this Victorian house reconverted into a bed and breakfast revives a time of "Gone With The Wind." Author Andre' Maisonneiuvre boasts Savannah "this small Boston of the South is an unceasingly renewed pleasure.... One would risk oneself even to sing Too Marvelous for Words , an air celebrates made up by Johnny Mercer, a child of the country. Because Savannah, it is also that: 'Too splendid to be known as with words.' Or too beautiful to be true?" [rough Altavista translation] (January 1, 2004, "Savannah La Perle sudiste")
• "Southern hospitality sugarcoats the walls at this converted-home B&B." -- AtlantaCitySearch
• The Sisterhood of Tea: "Savannah Serves Tea"
• The hub of Savannah's social life around the close of the 19th Century, this residence is referred as the Odom party house in John Berendt's book, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
• Savannah Sublime Side - LuxuryLinks
• Experience Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil with a stay in this 1873 mansion built by wealthy Savannah jeweler Samuel Hamilton. -- Fodors
• Savannah's Grand Inns, Savannah-Now.com
• "The house once belonged to Mandy Nichols, one of the principal figures in the book [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]." Concierge.com
• SBA Success Story - Hamilton-Turner Inn
• Hamilton-Turner Changes Hands: New Owners