MERCER-WILLIAMS HOUSE

SAVANNAH, GA

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The Mercer-Williams House is a historic mansion located in Savannah, Georgia. Built in the Italianate style in 1868 for General Hugh W. Mercer, the house was later purchased by Jim Williams, a prominent Savannah antiques dealer, in 1969. Williams undertook a major restoration of the property, which was completed just prior to his death in 1990.

The Mercer-Williams House is known for its stunning architecture and ornate furnishings. The exterior of the house features a stucco finish with decorative elements such as brackets and cornices. The interior of the house is decorated with period antiques and artwork, including a significant collection of 18th and 19th century paintings.

Throughout its history, the Mercer-Williams House has been the site of many notable events. During the Civil War, the house served as a hospital for Confederate soldiers. In the 1980s, the house became the subject of a high-profile murder trial after Jim Williams was accused of killing his assistant, Danny Hansford.

Today, the Mercer-Williams House is open to the public for tours and events. Visitors can explore the beautifully restored rooms and learn about the history of the house and its former occupants. The house has become a popular tourist attraction in Savannah and is considered one of the city's most significant architectural landmarks.

MERCER-WILLIAMS HOUSE is a Historical Societies, Historic Preservation in SAVANNAH GA. US MID #8401300053

The museum is classed as HSC (Historical Societies, Historic Preservation). It comes under American Alliance of Museums (AAM) region: Southeastern (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia).

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Mercer Williams House Museum 5675 <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercer_House_" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercer_House_</a>(Savannah,_Georgia) Mercer House (now the Mercer Williams House Museum) is located at 429 Bull Street in Savannah, Georgia.[3] Completed in 1868, it occupies the southwestern civic block of Monterey Square. The house was the scene of the 1981 killing of Danny Hansford by the home's owner, Jim Williams, a story that is retold in the 1994 John Berendt book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. The house is also featured in the movie adaptation of the book, released three years later.
Port of Savannah Savannah's port is next to the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, where this landscape that is so rich in birds and wildlife has been preserved. The refuge was one of my favorite stops.
Civil War at Fort Pulaski: bam! Days before Georgia seceded from the United States and joined the Confederacy, the state seized the federal fortification of Fort Pulaski on Cockspur Island near Savannah. Unfortunately for the Confederacy, it then did not support the surrounding ground because it thought Tybee Island was too remote, a waste of resources for what it deemed to be an impenetrable fort. The Civil War would quickly test those military assumptions. The United States thought of Fort Pulaski in terms of a bigger picture–Southern supply chain, military logistics, and economic bottleneck. Controlling traffic of the Southern port city of Savannah was very important to the overall war effort. The United States military took advantage of the blind eye of the Confederacy's military command. First came the U.S. Navy, blockading the Savannah River for a 112-day siege of the fort. But that was not enough. The U.S. Army built up troops and batteries by night at Tybee Island, hidden, on Fort Pulaski's facing shore of the Savannah River. On April 10, 1862, U.S. troops struck out. Rolling back their camouflage, they bombarded Confederate-occupied Fort Pulaski and won. The Confederate commander unconditionally surrendered, noting his isolation from any Confederate backup and that a breached wall exposed his entire garrison to the possibility of a catastrophic explosion from the ammunition storage area. He stated: "We were absolutely isolated beyond any possibility of help from the Confederate authorities, and I did not feel warranted in exposing the garrison to the hazard of the blowing up of our main magazine -- a danger which had just been proved well within the limits of probability."† The reclaimed fort would remain under U.S. control for the remainder of the Civil War. The Confederacy did not emphasize the loss of Fort Pulaski because of clearer tactics or strategy employed by their foe that capitalized on the Confederate military's blindspots but rather because of the Union's state-of-the-art technology that Confederate commanders did not anticipate to be used against their impenetrable fort, i.e. new rifled-bore cannons of the Union shot further and more accurately than traditional smooth-bore cannons. The new cannon fire could now reach the fort from the opposite shore to bring down its walls. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Pulaski_National_Monument" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Wikipedia observes</a> the strategic loss for the Confederacy and the strategic gain of Fort Pulaski for the United States: "all shipping into and out of Savannah ceased. The loss of Savannah as a viable Confederate port crippled its war effort." ---- †Source– <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Pulaski_National_Monument" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Wikipedia</a>: Quote from Colonel Charles H. Olmstead, commander of Fort Pulaski's Confederate garrison, Fort Pulaski brochure, National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior
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MERCER-WILLIAMS HOUSE
430 WHITAKER ST
SAVANNAH
GA
31401

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MERCER-WILLIAMS HOUSE Information

MID # 8401300053
Name MERCER-WILLIAMS HOUSE
Alternate Name
Classification Historical Societies, Historic Preservation, , Southeastern
Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN)
NTEECC
Tax period of the latest return filed (YYYYMM)
INCOME 0
REVENUE 0
LAT/LONG 32.071451, -81.09575
CODES FIPS State Code: 13
FIPS County Code: 051
US Census Tract: 011200
US Census Block: 2062