![]() When we walked in we were greeted by Erin who was exceptionally polite and professional. When we arrived for check in my b/f and I were quite frazzled after I had lost my digital camera at Tybee Beach earlier that day. The Eliza Thompson House was a very splendid stay indeed. The next day we had mentioned these two events to erin who kindly listened and didn't deny the fact that these things often happen and that our room was in fact haunted. My bf lay silently sleeping so I knew it was not him. However, the second night I was awoken by my sheets being pulled down slowly from over my head. We waited the second night to see if it would happen again and it didn't. ![]() On our first night stay there a thunderstorm came throught and had slightly kept us awake but it was also our alarm clock cd player that unexpectingly went off around 3am that got us a little startled. I also would like to mention for fellow ghost seekers that this hotel is most defintely haunted by a kind, curious ghost. The bed was comfy and the ceiling is spacious and quite dreamy with the draped cream fabric. She made our day by telling us someone had called and stated they had found our camera! We knew then that this was one lucky B&B! We stayed in the R. Savannah is well known as the oldest city in Georgia, and with that comes loads of history, heartbreak, tragedy, and death.The Eliza Thompson House was a very splendid stay indeed. Mary inherited her father’s wealth and she used it to continue the buy and develop land, growing her own wealth tenfold. Her father, Gabriel Leaver acquired several choice properties in Savannah before his death in 1795. At her death in 1877, she was loved and considered very successful in Savannah’s social and financial circles.ĭuring the Revolution, Mary had relatives on both sides during the Seige of Savannah. She was born during the final year of the American Revolution, and died at the age of 93 during the last days of Reconstruction in the south. Mary Marshall was a prominent Savannah figure throughout much of its history. A Bit About Mary MarshallĪs you enter the lobby, an oil painting of the Marshall House’s original owner can be seen hanging proudly. One can only imagine the energy and occasions these materials bore witness to.Īn 1830 portrait of Mary Marshall, who died in 1877 still hangs in the lobby. These include the pressed brick from Philadelphia, Savannah grey brick throughout, staircases, wooden floors, fireplaces, and doors to each and every guest room. Original parts of the structure still exist today, holding with them imprints from the building’s past. Not for long, however, because only a year later the building was restored and reopened as Savannah’s oldest hotel. The Marshall House as it looked in the past. Once the last shopkeeper locked the door behind them for good, the building lay alone. ![]() The upper three floors were left abandoned, and the ground floor was used by various business owners until 1998. The hotel had a lobby, dining room, living room, reading room, sixty-six guest rooms, one suite, an apartment, six storage rooms, as well as the hot and cold plumbing on each floor.Įven with all of the amenities, the Marshall House closed in 1957 due to a struggling economy. Gilbert sold the hotel in 1941 and it was a catch on the market. Gilbert leased it and changed the name to the Gilbert Hotel. Mary Marshall owned the property until 1914 until 1933 when Herbert W. The hotel closed for renovations from 1895 until 1899, when it reopened its doors to the public boasting electric lights as well as hot and cold plumbing on every floor, a rarity for the time. The Florida House, a property that adjoins the Marshall House, became part of it in 1880. A decade later, the Marshall Hose Company, Savannah’s volunteer fire department, was founded to protect the Marshall House specifically as well as other properties in Savannah. Ralph Meldrim was the proprietor of the House in 1857 when he constructed an impressive twelve-foot-high veranda onto the front of the second floor of the building. The troops were led by General William Tecumseh Sherman and the building was used as a Union field hospital for wounded soldiers. Source: Flickrĭuring the American Civil War, the Union Army occupied the Marshall House for a couple of years in 1864-1865. The ever-so-haunted Marshall House in Savannah, Georgia.
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