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17 Hundred 90 Inn
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Historic inn in Georgia, United States
April 2025
17 Hundred 90 Inn File:17 Hundred 90 logo.png File:130-132 Lincoln Street.jpg The building's Lincoln Street and East York Street corner in 2021 Savannah, Georgia, U.S. 307 East President Street Patrick Godley"A Trip to the 17Hundred90 Inn & Restaurant" – Savannah.com 32.07686 -81.08874 inline,title 1790 3 yes 17 Hundred 90 Inn nhldcp yes November 13, 1966http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=172&ResourceType=District Savannah Historic District 2009-07-21 National Historic Landmark summary listing National Park Service 2009-01-31 https://web.archive.org/web/20090131023358/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=172&ResourceType=District dead2013a Savannah Historic District 66000277
17 Hundred 90 Inn & Restaurant (also stylized as 17Hundred90 Inn & Restaurant) is a historic inn, restaurant and tavern in Savannah, Georgia, United States. Located on East President Street, just west of Columbia Square, it is Savannah's oldest inn,"17 Hundred 90: The comment cards don’t lie" – Savannah Morning News, October 30, 2008 occupying a building dating to 1790, thus pre-dating the foundation of the square. The entrance to its tavern is at the corner of Lincoln Street and East York Street.
The property, which is situated in the Savannah Historic District, occupies what was originally three separate residences."Haunted Hotels in Savannah" – Savannah.com The western part of the building (on Lincoln Street), built around 1822 by Steele White, was a duplex. The smaller eastern section, meanwhile, was built by the Powers family in 1888. The ground level is believed to be part of an earlier structure that was burned in the Savannah fire of 1820.History of the 17Hundred90 - 1790restaurant.com
Anna Powers,"8 haunted spots across America" – CNN Travel, October 23, 2013 a former resident of one of the three properties from the late 18th century into the early 19th century, supposedly jumped out of one of its windows to her death after an argument with her love interests, an English sailor who had gone AWOL to be with her. Another version is that Powers was pushed to her death, possibly by another female who was in love with the same sailor. Her ghost reportedly haunts the property.
The inn, which was featured in a season 2 episode of My Ghost Story, also owns a three-story guest house across East York Street.
See also
Buildings in Savannah Historic District
References
45em
External links
The 17 Hundred 90 Inn's official website
Category:Restaurants in Savannah, Georgia
Category:Taverns in Georgia (U.S. state)
Category:Hotels in Savannah, Georgia
Category:Houses completed in 1790
Category:Reportedly haunted locations in Georgia (U.S. state)
Category:Columbia Square (Savannah, Georgia) buildings
Category:Savannah Historic District
Category:Historic district contributing properties in Georgia (U.S. state)
Category:National Historic Landmark District contributing properties