Green-Meldrim House
Built in 1853 for cotton merchant Charles Green at a cost of $93,000, this Gothic Revival mansion on the northwest corner of Madison Square was designed by architect John S. Norris, who gave it a stuccoed brick exterior, oriel windows, a crenellated parapet, and a cast-iron portico believed to be unique in the United States. When Sherman took Savannah in 1864, he made the house his headquarters and famously offered the city to President Lincoln as a Christmas gift.
Owned since 1943 by St. John's Episcopal Church, which uses it as a parish house, it now keeps a quieter haunting. Staff and visitors report footsteps in empty rooms, doors that open by themselves, and a figure occasionally seen pacing the upstairs halls beneath the old crenellated roofline.
📍 14 W Macon St, Savannah, GA · Get directions