Joe Odom House

The Joe Odom House is a home in Savannah, Georgia, United States. It is located at 16 East Jones Street and was constructed in 1847.[1]

Joe Odom House
The building in 2022
General information
LocationSavannah, Georgia, U.S.
Address16 East Jones Street
Coordinates32.0725°N 81.0935°W / 32.0725; -81.0935
Completed1847 (1847)

The building is part of the Savannah Historic District,[1] and in a survey for the Historic Savannah Foundation, Mary Lane Morrison found the building to be of significant status.[2]

Built for Eliza Ann Jewett, it later become the home of Joe Odom.[3] Odom, an attorney-turned-musician was featured in the John Berendt non-fiction novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,[4][5] although he died three years before the book's 1994 release.[6]

A block south of Madison Square, this and 18 East Jones are two of the earliest constructions on the street.[4]

See also

References

  1. Historic Building Map: Savannah Historic District – Historic Preservation Department of the Chatham County-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission (November 17, 2011)
  2. Historic Savannah: Survey of Significant Buildings in the Historic and Victorian Districts of Savannah, Georgia, Mary Lane Morrison (1979), p. 174
  3. Savannah, Immortal City: Volume One of the Civil War Savannah Series - Barry Sheehy, Cindy Wallace, Vaughnette Goode-Walker (2011), p. 288
  4. "Jones Street, Savannah, Ga". GoSouthSavannah. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
  5. "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" (PDF). p. 105.
  6. "MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF FACT AND FICTION" - Washington Examiner, December 29, 1996


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