Telfair Academy
Historic house museum in Savannah, Georgia, US. Built 1819. Added to the National Register in 1976, and a National Historic Landmark.
What it is
The Telfair Academy is a historic mansion at 121 Barnard Street in Savannah, Georgia. It was designed by William Jay and built in 1818, and is one of a small number of Jay's surviving works. It is one of three sites owned by Telfair Museums. Originally a family townhouse belonging to the Telfair family, it became a free art museum in 1886, and thus one of the first 10 art museums in America, and the oldest public art museum in the South. Its first director, elected in 1883, was artist Carl Ludwig Brandt, who spent winters in Savannah. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
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The record
| Property type | Building |
| Address | 121 Barnard St., Savannah, GA |
| County | Chatham County |
| Listed | May 11, 1976 |
| Reference number | 76000612 |
| Built | 1819 |
| Type of place | historic house museum |
| Designations | National Historic Landmark |
| Contributing resources | 1 buildings |
The nomination form, the document that argues why this place matters, is in the National Archives: Read the nomination ↗
Visiting
| Address | 121 Barnard St., Savannah, GA |
| Website | telfair.org/visit/telfair-academy ↗ |
| Coordinates | 32.07904, -81.09520 · Directions ↗ |
| Nearest national park unit | Fort Pulaski National Monument · 10 mi · on Park Atlas |
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Location, dates, type and contributing counts come from the National Park Service's National Register spatial data. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 76000612. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The description under "What it is" is the opening of the Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA.