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The Mercer Williams House is an Italianate brick mansion on Monterey Square, begun for General Hugh Mercer, great-grandfather of the songwriter Johnny Mercer, and completed in 1868. The antiques dealer Jim Williams restored it from 1969, and a killing in the house in 1981 became the subject of the book and film Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Tours show the ground-floor rooms.
The Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist near Lafayette Square is the mother church of the Catholic Diocese of Savannah. The French Gothic Revival building with twin spires was completed in 1876, rebuilt after a fire in 1898 and restored in 2000. Inside are stained-glass windows made in Austria and painted murals.
The Davenport House on Columbia Square is a Federal-style brick house built in 1820 by the master builder Isaiah Davenport. Its threatened demolition in 1955 led to the founding of the Historic Savannah Foundation, which has run it as a museum since 1963. Guided tours show the furnished rooms and tell of the family and the enslaved people who lived and worked there.
Wormsloe State Historic Site on the Isle of Hope, about 15 km south-east of downtown Savannah, preserves part of the colonial estate of Noble Jones, one of Georgia's first settlers. A 2.4-km avenue lined with some 400 live oaks leads to the tabby ruins of his fortified house of the 1740s, the oldest standing structure in Savannah, a museum and a colonial life area.
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