History

  • The first building in Savannah Georgia with electricity
  • One of the first homes with an indoor bath and privy
  • One of the finest examples of French Second Empire architecture
  • Construction (ca. 1872-1873) was published in the Savannah News
  • Cost of the mansion (completed ca. Christmas 1873) was $100,000
  • Cost of original furnishings was estimated at $50,000
  • Samuel Pugh Hamilton was President of Brush Electric & Power, the winning contractor to first light Savannah streets
  • The ecologically minded Doctor Francis Turner--owner of the mansion after the Hamiltons--owned Savannah's first electric car
  • Historic Savannah Foundation purchased the mansion, saving it from destruction in the late 1960s
  • One of Attorney Joe Odom “party houses” as featured in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
  • Nancy Hillis, “Mandy” in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, created a museum in the mansion and gave tours of the house
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