Mercer House (now the Mercer Williams House Museum ) is located at 429 Bull Street in Savannah , Georgia . Completed in 1868, it occupies the southwestern civic block of Monterey Square .
68-620: Mercer House , Mercer Hall , and variations, may refer to: United States [ edit ] Mercer House (Savannah, Georgia) Buck-Mercer House , Somerset, Kentucky Mercer Union Meetinghouse , Mercer, Maine Mercer House (Natchez, Mississippi) Dr. Samuel D. Mercer House , Omaha, Nebraska Mercer Log House , Fairborn, Ohio Marquart-Mercer Farm , Springfield, Ohio Fonthill, Mercer Museum and Moravian Pottery and Tile Works , Doylestown, Pennsylvania Mercer Hall , Columbia, Tennessee Australia [ edit ] Mercer House ,
136-577: A Sotheby's auction on October 20, 2000. Where their locations in the house were known, they are mentioned in the relevant section below. As John Berendt wrote in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil : "If Mercer House was not quite the biggest private house in Savannah, it was certainly the most grandly furnished." Looking at the front of the house, at the bottom right is the drawing room , with
204-462: A balustraded parapet . The principal block is flanked by two lower asymmetrical secondary wings that contribute picturesque massing, best appreciated from an angled view. The larger of these is divided from the principal block by the belvedere tower. The smaller, the ballroom block, is entered through a columned porte-cochère designed as a single storey prostyle portico . Many examples of this style are evident around Sydney and Melbourne, notably
272-410: A basement, where Williams's restoration workshop was. He and three employees repaired antiques, as well as doing gold leafing , veneering and marbleizing . The lot consists of a front yard, the house, a courtyard and a carriage house . It takes up a city trust lot — the only building in Savannah in private ownership to do so. An iron railing surrounds the northern, eastern and southern sides of
340-592: A copy of Harris Tattnall's 1978 book At Home in Savannah: Great Interiors on the coffee table during one of his visits. The Mercer House drawing room was the cover photograph. Williams also owned a large silver-gilt and enamel-mounted leather desk folio, with the initial N 11 and the corners decorated with Imperial eagles. It was made for Tsar Nicholas II and was purchased by Williams at a Sotheby Parke Bernet sale in New York in 1979. The folio
408-569: A declining fashion." Anthony Salvin occasionally designed in the Italianate style, especially in Wales, at Hafod House, Carmarthenshire, and Penoyre House , Powys, described by Mark Girouard as "Salvin's most ambitious classical house." Thomas Cubitt , a London building contractor, incorporated simple classical lines of the Italianate style as defined by Sir Charles Barry into many of his London terraces. Cubitt designed Osborne House under
476-526: A fireplace on the side of the house flanking West Wayne Street to the north. A George I Chinoiserie Japanned cabinet dating from around 1720, on a later George I-style stand, was located in this room. On top of this were three Chinese sang-de-bœuf glazed porcelain vases from the 19th century. Also in the drawing room, Williams kept an "assortment of curiosities", including Fabergé items, such as its jeweled eggs . His first purchase, made in London in 1971,
544-409: A fireplace. Above the fireplace was a Louis XVI -style painted and parcel-gilt mirror, continental, late 19th century. A pair of paintings by Thomas Hudson , portraits of Mr. and Mrs. James Hilhouse of Cornwallis House, Clifton, Bristol , were hung in this room. Also in the dining room was a Regency gilt-metal mounted dining-room pedestal, circa 1815, in the manner of Thomas Hope . The dining table
612-488: A master of the Paris Clockmakers' Guild. In front of the clock was a white statuary marble bust of Edward VII , English, dated 1906, by Walter Merrett , on a late-19th-century green marble column. There is also a fireplace in this room, on its southern wall. The semi-circular staircases leading down to the basement and up to the second floor is halfway along the left side of the entrance hall, just before which
680-609: A now defunct teachers' college in Victoria, Australia See also [ edit ] Greek Revival Houses of Mercer County: Lynnwood, Walnut Hall, Glenworth , Harrodsburg, Kentucky, listed on the NRHP in Mercer County, Kentucky Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mercer House . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
748-721: A number of Italianate lighthouses and associated structures, chief among them being the Grosse Point Light in Evanston, Illinois . The Italianate style was immensely popular in Australia as a domestic style influencing the rapidly expanding suburbs of the 1870–1880s and providing rows of neat villas with low-pitched roofs, bay windows , tall windows and classical cornices. The architect William Wardell designed Government House in Melbourne —the official residence of
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#1732790920912816-428: A pair of large chargers with scalloped borders. They were displayed in a breakfront cabinet. Facing the rear of the house from the drawing room, there is the music room, in which, on the left-hand side, there was a William IV mahogany sideboard , Irish, circa 1835. Above this was one of two Brussels tapestries from the 18th century, depicting a couple (possibly Venus and Adonis ) embracing, with Cupid holding
884-426: A shield emblazoned with a heart. Each tapestry was estimated to be around $ 25,000 in value. Either side of the sideboard was a pair of Regency giltwood torchères with later circular painted tops. Also in the music room was a pair of Regency fauteuils , dating from around 1730. The piano sat across from the sideboard, in front of a French window that overlooks West Wayne Street. Through a set of pocket doors , at
952-672: A shuttered upstairs dressing room to protect them from sunlight. Of the nine portraits, seven are inscribed Dublin, Ireland and are dated from 1704 to 1705. One, which Williams had on display in the library for a period after its purchase in early 1980, shows John Perceval , head of the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia . Williams acquired the portraits at a sale of property from Belvedere House , Westmeath County , Ireland. Williams said: "The thought of owning nine works by America's first panelist and first woman artist kept me awake
1020-422: A window at Mercer House in an attempt to disrupt the shoot, after the film company declined to make a donation to the local humane society , of which Williams was on the board, as he had requested. The Congregation Mickve Israel , located across the square, complained to the city. Jackie Onassis , the widow of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy , visited Mercer House with her friend Maurice Tempelsman in
1088-707: Is an example of this further evolution of the style. As in Australia, the use of Italianate for public service offices took hold but using local materials like timber to create the illusion of stone. At the time it was built in 1856, the official residence of the Colonial Governor in Auckland was criticized for the dishonesty of making wood look like stone. The 1875 Old Government Buildings, Wellington are entirely constructed with local kauri timber, which has excellent properties for construction. ( Auckland developed later and preferred Gothic detailing.) As in
1156-645: Is estimated at $ 25,000. An American carved wooden eagle with outspread wings, which was perched on a bracket in the drawing room and used on the first tug boat to ply the Savannah harbor, is estimated at $ 4,000. More than one hundred pieces of Chinese blue and white porcelain from the Nanking cargo —a wreck of treasures which sank in the South China Sea in 1752—is also included, with an estimate of $ 5,500–$ 8,500. The Sotheby lot comprised soup plates, plates with scallop borders and plain rims, octagonal plates and
1224-526: Is not very well known, but a clear example of Italianate architecture, is St. Christopher's Anglican church in Hinchley Wood , Surrey, particularly given the design of its bell tower . Portmeirion in Gwynedd , North Wales, is an architectural fantasy designed in a southern Italian Baroque style and built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis between 1925 and 1975 in a loose style of an Italian village. It
1292-500: Is now owned by a charitable trust. Williams-Ellis incorporated fragments of demolished buildings, including works by a number of other architects. Portmeirion's architectural bricolage and deliberately fanciful nostalgia have been noted as an influence on the development of postmodernism in architecture in the late 20th century. The Italianate revival was comparatively less prevalent in Scottish architecture , examples include some of
1360-637: The Medici . Upon his return to Lebanon in 1618, he began modernising Lebanon. He developed a silk industry, upgraded olive oil production, and brought with him numerous Italian engineers who began building mansions and civil buildings throughout the country. The cities of Beirut and Sidon were especially built in the Italianate style. The influence of these buildings, such as those in Deir el Qamar , influenced building in Lebanon for many centuries and continues to
1428-560: The Old Treasury Building (1858), Leichhardt Town Hall (1888), Glebe Town Hall (1879) and the fine range of state and federal government offices facing the gardens in Treasury Place. No.2 Treasury Gardens (1874). This dignified, but not overly exuberant style for civil service offices contrasted with the grand and more formal statements of the classical styles used for Parliament buildings . The acceptance of
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#17327909209121496-731: The Reform Club 1837–41 in Pall Mall represents a convincingly authentic pastiche of the Palazzo Farnese in Rome, albeit in a 'Grecian' Ionic order in place of Michelangelo 's original Corinthian order . Although it has been claimed that one-third of early Victorian country houses in England used classical styles, mostly Italianate, by 1855 the style was falling from favour and Cliveden came to be regarded as "a declining essay in
1564-702: The Tudor and Gothic styles at the Houses of Parliament in London, was a great promoter of the style. Unlike Nash, he found his inspiration in Italy itself. Barry drew heavily on the designs of the original Renaissance villas of Rome , the Lazio and the Veneto or as he put it: "...the charming character of the irregular villas of Italy." His most defining work in this style was the large Neo-Renaissance mansion Cliveden , while
1632-519: The United States , where it was promoted by the architect Alexander Jackson Davis . Key visual components of this style include: A late intimation of John Nash 's development of the Italianate style was his 1805 design of Sandridge Park at Stoke Gabriel in Devon . Commissioned by the dowager Lady Ashburton as a country retreat, this small country house clearly shows the transition between
1700-467: The governor of Victoria —as an example of his "newly discovered love for Italianate, Palladian and Venetian architecture ." Cream-colored, with many Palladian features, it would not be out of place among the unified streets and squares in Thomas Cubitt's Belgravia , London, except for its machicolated signorial tower that Wardell crowned with a belvedere . The hipped roof is concealed by
1768-544: The Civil War. Its popularity was due to being suitable for many different building materials and budgets, as well as the development of cast-iron and press-metal technology making the production more efficient of decorative elements such as brackets and cornices. However, the style was superseded in popularity in the late 1870s by the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles. The popularity of Italianate architecture in
1836-710: The Italianate style for government offices was sustained well into the 20th century when, in 1912, John Smith Murdoch designed the Commonwealth Office Buildings as a sympathetic addition to this precinct to form a stylistically unified terrace overlooking the gardens. The Italianate style of architecture continued to be built in outposts of the British Empire long after it had ceased to be fashionable in Britain itself. The Albury railway station in regional New South Wales , completed in 1881,
1904-545: The Italianate style in England tend to take the form of Palladian -style building often enhanced by a belvedere tower complete with Renaissance -type balustrading at the roof level. This is generally a more stylistic interpretation of what architects and patrons imagined to be the case in Italy, and utilises more obviously the Italian Renaissance motifs than those earlier examples of the Italianate style by Nash. Sir Charles Barry , most notable for his works on
1972-776: The Italianate style, such as the James Lick Mansion , John Muir Mansion , and Bidwell Mansion , before later Stick-Eastlake and Queen Anne styles superseded. Many, nicknamed Painted Ladies , remain and are celebrated in San Francisco . A late example in masonry is the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Los Angeles . Additionally, the United States Lighthouse Board , through the work of Colonel Orlando M. Poe , produced
2040-533: The Mercer name ever lived in the house. In 1969, 11-year-old Tommy Downs fell from the roof of the house and was killed after being impaled on the iron fence on the West Gordon Street (southern) side of the house. It is believed he was hunting pigeons. The tip of one of the two spiked prongs he landed on, which broke during the incident, has since been replaced. For a period in the twentieth century,
2108-479: The Reverend Rhodes by Thomas Hudson. Inside the ballroom was a painted and gilted modern center table with a marble top, in addition to the main attraction at the rear of the room: the pipe organ . Above the fireplace, on the northern wall, was one of a pair of Rococo -style giltwood and composition pier mirrors, American, mid-19th century, nine feet high. The master bedroom is also on this floor, on
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2176-792: The United States, the timber construction common in New Zealand allowed this popular style to be rendered in domestic buildings, such as Antrim House in Wellington, and Westoe Farm House in Rangitikei (1874), as well as rendered brick at "The Pah" in Auckland (1880). On a more domestic scale, the suburbs of cities like Dunedin and Wellington spread out with modest but handsome suburban villas with Italianate details, such as low-pitched roofs, tall windows, corner quoins , and stone detailing, all rendered in wood. A good example
2244-494: The architect Sir Charles Barry in the 1830s. Barry's Italianate style (occasionally termed "Barryesque") drew heavily for its motifs on the buildings of the Italian Renaissance , though sometimes at odds with Nash's semi-rustic Italianate villas. The style was employed in varying forms abroad long after its decline in popularity in Britain. For example, from the late 1840s to 1890, it achieved huge popularity in
2312-509: The building was used as the Savannah Shriners Alee Temple. It then lay vacant for a decade, until 1969, when Jim Williams , one of Savannah's earliest and most dedicated private restorationists, bought the house for $ 55,000 and fully restored it over two years. In 1979, during the filming on Monterey Square of The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd , starring Dennis Weaver , Williams hung a flag of Nazi Germany outside of
2380-420: The dining table. It is estimated at $ 4,000. Williams used the carriage house, which fronts onto Whitaker Street to the west, as a guest house for visitors. Between the house and the carriage house is a courtyard, with a brick wall connecting the house and carriage house running either side. This privacy wall was raised after the 1994 publication of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil . Directly across
2448-426: The direction of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , and it is Cubitt's reworking of his two-dimensional street architecture into this freestanding mansion which was to be the inspiration for countless Italianate villas throughout the British Empire. Following the completion of Osborne House in 1851, the style became a popular choice of design for the small mansions built by the new and wealthy industrialists of
2516-628: The early 1980s. They had been traveling down the east coast on Tempelsman's yacht. Onassis offered $ 90,000 for a jade box made by the House of Fabergé . Even though it would have been a $ 20,000 profit, Williams having recently bought it at a Christie's auction in Europe, he turned it down. To the surprise of Sonny Seiler, the Williams family attorney, Clint Eastwood convinced Dorothy Kingery (Williams's sister) to allow filming inside Mercer House for
2584-578: The early work of Alexander Thomson ("Greek" Thomson) and buildings such as the west side of George Square . The Italian, specifically Tuscan, influence on architecture in Lebanon dates back to the Renaissance when Fakhreddine , the first Lebanese ruler who truly unified Mount Lebanon with its Mediterranean coast, executed an ambitious plan to develop his country. When the Ottomans exiled Fakhreddine to Tuscany in 1613, he entered an alliance with
2652-425: The era. These were mostly built in cities surrounded by large but not extensive gardens, often laid out in a terrace Tuscan style as well. On occasions very similar, if not identical, designs to these Italianate villas would be topped by mansard roofs , and then termed chateauesque . However, "after a modest spate of Italianate villas, and French chateaux" by 1855 the most favoured style of an English country house
2720-405: The first and second levels of these three open sides is crowned with a sculptural hood mold of cast iron . A classical portico , supported by two columns at each of the front corners, covers the front doors. Both sets of columns are adjoined at their bases (the base on the left is adorned with a plaque denoting the year construction on the house was begun; the right, the home's number). Both
2788-524: The ground, or even flat roofs with a wide projection. A tower is often incorporated hinting at the Italian belvedere or even campanile tower. Motifs drawn from the Italianate style were incorporated into the commercial builders' repertoire and appear in Victorian architecture dating from the mid-to-late 19th century. This architectural style became more popular than Greek Revival by the beginning of
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2856-464: The hallway from the top of the staircase, on the northern side of the house, is the ballroom. Against the wall to the right of the door to the ballroom was an eight-legged George III mahogany sofa , circa 1770. Either side of the sofa was a pair of carved polychrome and giltwood lamps in the Chinese taste. They were standing on a pair of painted wood and tole pedestals. Above the sofa was a portrait of
2924-448: The highlight of many people's social calendars. Williams had an "in" box and an "out" box for his invitations, depending on whether or not the person was in Williams's favor at the time. After Williams's death in 1990, the house was owned by Dorothy Williams Kingery, Williams's sister. She died in 2023. The home is open, in restricted form, to the public for tours. Kingery's daughter and Williams's niece, Dorothy Susan Kingery, manages
2992-509: The history of Classical architecture . Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism , the Italianate style combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian Renaissance architecture with picturesque aesthetics. The resulting style of architecture was essentially of its own time. "The backward look transforms its object," Siegfried Giedion wrote of historicist architectural styles; "every spectator at every period—at every moment, indeed—inevitably transforms
3060-444: The house, with a brick privacy wall continuing either side between the courtyard and the carriage house. The wall has since been increased in height. The main façade, facing east onto Monterey Square, has five French windows (two on the first floor, three on the second). Except for the window above the double front doors, each French window on the three open sides of the house has a balcony surrounded by an iron railing. Each window on
3128-400: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mercer_House&oldid=1181025141 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mercer House (Savannah, Georgia) The house was
3196-614: The middle. The section without a window is where the ballroom organ is installed. In total, there are 40 windows (including the basement level) and eight iron balconies. Another notable feature of the home's exterior are the support brackets all around the soffit in the eaves of the roof. In 1997, Dorothy Kingery established a trademark for the home's façade, and her lawyer dispatched letters to local artists demanding that they either stop using photographs of it for their own gain, or give her 10% of their proceeds. Many of Jim Williams's antiques and furnishings were sold by his sister at
3264-456: The movie adaptation of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997). "Damn if she didn't do it," explained Seiler. "Clint is a charmer. I'll tell you what: he has no problem with the ladies or anybody else. But she had one deal: that they could not film any of the "unpleasantness," as she calls it, there. So they did all of that out at Warner Bros. But she let them film the house, the parties in there, and they were very pleased with it and so
3332-551: The museum, which is based out of the carriage house at the rear of the property. Designed in the Italianate style by John S. Norris for General Hugh Mercer (great-grandfather of the songwriter Johnny Mercer ), construction of the house began in 1860. The project was interrupted by the American Civil War , and finally completed around 1868 by the new owner, cotton merchant John Randolph Wilder . Nobody of
3400-433: The northern and southern (long) sides have a French window in the middle of both the first and second floors, flanked by two single windows on each side. The windows of the basement level mirror the size of the window immediately above. At the rear, both the first and second levels open out onto verandas . The first floor has a double door with a French window on each side; the second floor has three windows and one door in
3468-489: The past according to his own nature." The Italianate style was first developed in Britain in about 1802 by John Nash , with the construction of Cronkhill in Shropshire . This small country house is generally accepted to be the first Italianate villa in England, from which is derived the Italianate architecture of the late Regency and early Victorian eras. The Italianate style was further developed and popularised by
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#17327909209123536-450: The picturesque of William Gilpin and Nash's yet to be fully evolved Italianism. While this house can still be described as Regency , its informal asymmetrical plan together with its loggias and balconies of both stone and wrought iron; tower and low pitched roof clearly are very similar to the fully Italianate design of Cronkhill , the house generally considered to be the first example of the Italianate style in Britain. Later examples of
3604-423: The present time. For example, streets like Rue Gouraud continue to have numerous, historic houses with Italianate influence. The Italianate style was popularized in the United States by Alexander Jackson Davis in the 1840s as an alternative to Gothic or Greek Revival styles. Davis' design for Blandwood is the oldest surviving example of Italianate architecture in the United States, constructed in 1844 as
3672-428: The preservation of this impressive collection, with large-scale renovation efforts beginning to repair urban blight. Cincinnati's neighbouring cities of Newport and Covington, Kentucky also contain an impressive collection of Italianate architecture. The Garden District of New Orleans features examples of the Italianate style, including: In California, the earliest Victorian residences were wooden versions of
3740-469: The residence of North Carolina Governor John Motley Morehead . It is an early example of Italianate architecture, closer in ethos to the Italianate works of Nash than the more Renaissance-inspired designs of Barry. Davis' 1854 Litchfield Villa in Prospect Park, Brooklyn is an example of the style. It was initially referred to as the "Italian Villa" or "Tuscan Villa" style. Richard Upjohn used
3808-408: The rest of the night." The nine portraits were sold together and are estimated at $ 100,000–125,000. The study , where the shooting of Danny Hansford took place, is at the front left of the house, the side bounded by West Gordon Street to the south. A Louis XV ormolu-mounted Boulle marquetry bracket clock with conforming bracket hung on the wall of the study. It was signed by Laurent Dey ,
3876-598: The right rear is the library, which includes another fireplace. Also in the library, sitting on an easel, was a framed ormolu fitting from the state carriage used at the coronation of Emperor Napoleon in 1804. After Williams's death, his sister hung a painting of him in this room, with Williams holding his cat, Sheldon. Williams owned nine pastels on paper depicting members of the Southwell and Perceval families, attributed to artist Henrietta Johnston , with seven in their original black frames. Williams kept these in
3944-485: The scene of the 1981 killing of Danny Hansford by the home's owner Jim Williams , a story that is retold in the 1994 John Berendt book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil . The house is also featured in the movie adaptation of the book , released three years later. Williams held annual Christmas parties at Mercer House, on the eve of the Savannah Cotillion Club 's debutante ball , which were
4012-537: The southern side of the house. A continental turned beechwood stool, late 17th century, with a crewelwork cover, was located in this room. One of the two guest rooms is dominated by a mahogany four-poster bed , hand-carved in Grenada in the 19th century with foliage designs. The posts were carved with spiral flutes and a nutmeg design. It is estimated at $ 10,000. There were also several pieces of 19th-century furniture from Guatemala . A stained-glass dome skylight
4080-635: The style extensively, beginning in 1845 with the Edward King House . Other leading practitioners of the style were John Notman and Henry Austin . Notman designed "Riverside" in 1837, the first "Italian Villa" style house in Burlington, New Jersey (now destroyed). Italianate was reinterpreted to become an indigenous style. It is distinctive by its pronounced exaggeration of many Italian Renaissance characteristics: emphatic eaves supported by corbels , low-pitched roofs barely discernible from
4148-426: The table was a pair of George III -style carved giltwood torchères from around 1900. Immediately inside the front door, to the left, was a George III mahogany linen press , albeit with some replacement parts. The hallway, the original ceramic floor tiles for which were imported from Stoke-on-Trent , England, was designed to double as a summer living-room . The dining room is at the left rear, also featuring
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#17327909209124216-669: The time period following 1845 can be seen in Cincinnati, Ohio , the United States' first boomtown west of the Appalachian Mountains . This city, which grew along with the traffic on the Ohio River , features arguably the largest single collection of Italianate buildings in the United States in its Over-the-Rhine neighbourhood, built primarily by German-American immigrants that lived in the densely populated area. In recent years, increased attention has been called to
4284-481: Was Gothic, Tudor, or Elizabethan. The Italianate style came to the small town of Newton Abbot and the village of Starcross in Devon, with Isambard Brunel's atmospheric railway pumping houses. The style was later used by Humphrey Abberley and Joseph Rowell, who designed a large number of houses, with the new railway station as the focal point, for Lord Courtenay, who saw the potential of the railway age. An example that
4352-409: Was a Regency mahogany, made in the first quarter 19th century, and was in two parts. The eight chairs around it were a set of George II -style red- Japanned and parcel-gilted moderns. Also, a mahogany three-tier server, which Williams had found in poor condition in the countryside around the island of Grenada , where it is known as a "cupping table", referring to its use to hold cups and dishes beside
4420-627: Was a large silver-gilt and enamel-mounted leather box, or presentation casket, bearing the Imperial coat-of-arms and the gold-crowned cypher of Tsar Nicholas II . It is dated 1899 and is estimated at $ 10,000. It was given by the Tsar to the Shah of Persia to commemorate the settlement of a long-standing border dispute. Williams put it on the jade-green coffee table in the drawing room, where it stayed for thirty years. John Berendt stated that Williams also had
4488-401: Was installed in 1868 above the top of the stairs. It contains vents to cool the house. The second floor is not included in guided tours of the home. A portrait of Mary Marshall , founder of Savannah's Marshall House , was acquired from Williams's estate and now hangs in the lobby of the hotel. Italianate architecture The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in
4556-475: Was she." Jim Williams died in 1990, and his sister put the house up for sale later that decade with a price tag of just under $ 9,000,000. This was later reduced to about $ 7,000,000. New Standard Enterprises undertook a complete exterior renovation of the house in December 2019. Dorothy Kingery died in 2023, aged 88. The property, constructed with "Philadelphia Red" bricks, is three stories, including
4624-432: Was the grandfather clock that Hansford, Williams claimed, knocked over immediately prior to his death. On the right-hand wall of the entrance hall was another 18th-century Brussels tapestry, woven with silk, wool and metallic threads, depicting Diana and her nymphs bathing beside a fountain. In front of the tapestry was a Regency-period inlaid mahogany parcel-gilt side table from the early 19th century. Either side of
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