Owens-Thomas House
An architectural jewel of Regency Savannah, the Owens-Thomas House was completed in 1819 to the designs of English architect William Jay, who built it for shipping merchant Richard Richardson in the neoclassical English Regency style. Its walls rise from tabby and coquina, a full two feet thick in places, and a cast-iron balcony shipped from England in pieces still hangs over the south facade; it was the first house in Savannah to enjoy indoor plumbing.
Today the site is best known for its remarkably intact urban slave quarters, a rarity among the city's surviving examples, where five to fourteen enslaved people lived in the early nineteenth century. Visitors and staff report unexplained voices and footsteps, and a heaviness in the quarters.
Many take the haunting here as the weight of memory rather than mischief.
📍 124 Abercorn St, Savannah, GA · Get directions