Joe Odom House
| Joe Odom House | |
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| General information | |
| Location | Savannah, Georgia, U.S. |
| Address | 16 East Jones Street |
| Coordinates | 32°04′21″N 81°05′37″W / 32.0725°N 81.0935°W |
| Completed | 1845 |
The Joe Odom House is a home in Savannah, Georgia, United States. It is located at 16 East Jones Street and was constructed in 1845.[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]
Built for Eliza Jewett, it later become the home of Joe Odom.[3] Odom, an attorney-turned-musician was featured in the John Berendt non-fiction novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.[4][5] A block south of Madison Square, this and 18 East Jones are two of the earliest constructions on the street.[4]
See also
References
- ^ a b Historic Building Map: Savannah Historic District – Historic Preservation Department of the Chatham County-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission (November 17, 2011)
- ^ Historic Savannah: Survey of Significant Buildings in the Historic and Victorian Districts of Savannah, Georgia, Mary Lane Morrison (1979), p. 174
- ^ Savannah, Immortal City: Volume One of the Civil War Savannah Series - Barry Sheehy, Cindy Wallace, Vaughnette Goode-Walker (2011), p. 288
- ^ a b "Jones Street, Savannah, Ga". GoSouthSavannah. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
- ^ "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" (PDF). p. 105.
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