Orleans Square

Orleans Square is one of the 22 squares of Savannah, Georgia, United States. It is located in the middle row of the city's five rows of squares, on Barnard Street and West McDonough Street, and was laid out in 1815, shortly after the event it commemorates: General Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans that January. It is south of Telfair Square, west of Chippewa Square and north of Pulaski Square. The oldest building on the square is the John Ash House, at 114–116 West Hull Street, which dates to 1817.[1]

Orleans Square

The square in 2017, looking northwest
Namesake	Battle of New Orleans
Maintained by	City of Savannah
Location	Savannah, Georgia, U.S.
Coordinates	32.0763°N 81.0954°W / 32.0763; -81.0954
North	Barnard Street
East	West McDonough Street
South	Barnard Street
West	West McDonough Street
Construction
Completion	1815 (1815)

In the center of the square, the German Memorial Fountain honors early German immigrants to Savannah.[2] Installed in 1989, it commemorates the 250th anniversary of Georgia and of Savannah, as well as the 300th anniversary of the arrival in Philadelphia of thirteen Rhenish families.[3]

Between 1820 and 1914, the Bulloch–Habersham House stood in the square. It was designed by William Jay.[4] Its demolition in 1916 was described by historian John D. Duncan as "one of the worst cases of metropolitan malfeasance to be documented in an era when the preservation movement was just beginning to gain attention."[5]