121 Barnard St., Savannah, Georgia. County/parish: Chatham.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 11, 1976. NRIS 76000612.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
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.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206740