The Foley House Inn, at the corner of Bull and Hull Streets is the starting point to stroll in four directions from the Chippewa Square - the exact center of the one-mile square grid that is America's largest preserved historical district.
Stroll south across Hull Street and you will quickly encounter, the First Baptist Church, the only church in Savannah to survive all fires since the 1800s. In Chippewa Square, you may tip your hat to Savannah's founder, General James Edward Oglethorpe, whose statue faces south … still protecting Savannah from the Spanish from Florida.
Take in a theater performance at the Savannah Theater, the oldest perpetually open theater in America. Pass the Six Pence Pub [of Julia Roberts fame] on the way to the Greene-Meldrim Mansion, where General Sherman stayed at the end of the Civil War, telegramming President Abraham Lincoln, "Mr. President, I give you for Christmas, the City of Savannah." Pass the Mercer House, where Jim Williams shot his lover in the best selling novel and Clint Eastwood directed the scandalous movie, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." Press onward to the Oglethorpe Club, Gryphon Tea Room, Temple Mikve Israel (the second Oldest Synagogue in America), the Fountain in Forsyth Park and genealogy at the Georgia Historic Society … to name only a few highlights.
Travel north from the Foley House onto Bull Street; pass the Independent Presbyterian Church (whose steeple was featured in the "Forrest Gump" movie). Notice the red brick school administration building, formerly the Savannah Pavilion Hotel, later a combined high- and grammar-school. Continuing northward, you will encounter Girl Scout founder Juliette Gordon Lowe's birthplace home, Chief Tomochichi's tomb in Wright Square, the gold dome of City Hall overseeing the Savannah River walk, the Cotton Exchange on Upper Factor's Walk, world-class architecture, antique shops, festivals in the squares and theaters, City Market café shops and art galleries, museums, and Broughton Street - a colonnade of downtown Savannah's diverse ethnic restaurants and shops. Ultimately you will want to explore River Street, and perhaps cruise up the Savannah River for a riverfront view of the city's high bluff and protective old forts.
Return for extraordinary pampering at the finest luxury lodging in the Savannah Historic District neighborhood, The Foley House Inn.
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Stroll south across Hull Street and you will quickly encounter, the First Baptist Church, the only church in Savannah to survive all fires since the 1800s. In Chippewa Square, you may tip your hat to Savannah's founder, General James Edward Oglethorpe, whose statue faces south … still protecting Savannah from the Spanish from Florida.
Take in a theater performance at the Savannah Theater, the oldest perpetually open theater in America. Pass the Six Pence Pub [of Julia Roberts fame] on the way to the Greene-Meldrim Mansion, where General Sherman stayed at the end of the Civil War, telegramming President Abraham Lincoln, "Mr. President, I give you for Christmas, the City of Savannah." Pass the Mercer House, where Jim Williams shot his lover in the best selling novel and Clint Eastwood directed the scandalous movie, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." Press onward to the Oglethorpe Club, Gryphon Tea Room, Temple Mikve Israel (the second Oldest Synagogue in America), the Fountain in Forsyth Park and genealogy at the Georgia Historic Society … to name only a few highlights.
Travel north from the Foley House onto Bull Street; pass the Independent Presbyterian Church (whose steeple was featured in the "Forrest Gump" movie). Notice the red brick school administration building, formerly the Savannah Pavilion Hotel, later a combined high- and grammar-school. Continuing northward, you will encounter Girl Scout founder Juliette Gordon Lowe's birthplace home, Chief Tomochichi's tomb in Wright Square, the gold dome of City Hall overseeing the Savannah River walk, the Cotton Exchange on Upper Factor's Walk, world-class architecture, antique shops, festivals in the squares and theaters, City Market café shops and art galleries, museums, and Broughton Street - a colonnade of downtown Savannah's diverse ethnic restaurants and shops. Ultimately you will want to explore River Street, and perhaps cruise up the Savannah River for a riverfront view of the city's high bluff and protective old forts.
Return for extraordinary pampering at the finest luxury lodging in the Savannah Historic District neighborhood, The Foley House Inn.
View the map on Google Maps.
