Sherman's Headquarters

General William Tecumseh Sherman used this house as headquarters from Dec. 22, 1864, until Feb. 1, 1865, after Charles Green offered the use of his home to Sherman and his staff, and Sherman's chaplain conducted Christmas services in St. John's Church. The house had been built for Green, a British subject residing in Savannah prior to 1854, and was designed by John S. Norris of New York. It is notable as one of the country's finest examples of residential Gothic Revival architecture, with interior detail described as as sumptuous as any to be found in America. Construction of the house in the 1850's cost $93,000. In 1892, Judge Peter W. Meldrim, a distinguished Georgia jurist and President of the American Bar Association from 1912-1913, acquired it from the Green family as a residence. St. John's Episcopal Church acquired the house from the Meldrim heirs in 1943 for use as a parish house and rectory, partly through public subscription by the citizens of Savannah, and the house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.

Savannah, Georgia · United States