Joseph Johnston Property

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Joseph Johnston Property
General information
Location Savannah, Georgia, U.S.
Address11 West Jones Street
Coordinates 32°04′21″N81°05′42″W / 32.0724°N 81.0950°W / 32.0724; -81.0950
Completed1854(169 years ago) (1854)
Technical details
Floor count3

The Joseph Johnston Property is a home in Savannah, Georgia, United States. It is located at 11 West Jones Street and was constructed in 1854. [1]

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]

The house was built for Joseph E. Johnston, general officer in the Confederate Army, and sold to fellow Confederate officer Algernon Sydney Hartridge in 1860. [3] [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 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. 297
  3. Savannah, Immortal City: Volume One of the Civil War Savannah Series - Barry Sheehy, Cindy Wallace, Vaughnette Goode-Walker (2011)
  4. A Biography of Algernon Sydney Hartridge, Mary G. Speir, Georgia Southern University (1975)