Savannah's oldest inn and its resident Anna
307 East President Street, Savannah, GA 31401
Age
All Ages in restaurant; 21+ in tavern after 9pm
Cost
$$$
Dinner entrees typically $30-50. Inn rooms vary seasonally; check venue website.
Access
Limited Access
Brick courtyard and historic multi-story building with stairs
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1790 · Savannah Historic District · Federal Period Architecture · Antebellum Hospitality
The 17Hundred90 Inn and Restaurant stands at 307 East President Street in downtown Savannah, two blocks east of Columbia Square. The property promotes itself as Savannah's oldest inn, citing a 1790 construction date for an early section. Public references and the venue's own historical materials indicate that the surviving main structure was built between 1821 and 1823, with a third building added in 1888. The complex was joined into a single hospitality operation in the twentieth century and has functioned as an inn and restaurant for several decades.
The Federal-style brickwork and tabby foundation are consistent with the early-republic vernacular of coastal Georgia. The interior layout preserves narrow stairs, low-ceilinged rooms, and a working tavern in the lower level. The inn currently offers fourteen guest rooms and a full-service dinner restaurant that opens nightly. The lounge serves an extended bar program until midnight.
Savannah's historic district carries one of the densest concentrations of pre-Civil-War buildings in the American South. The 17Hundred90 sits within the Savannah Historic District, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966, and shares the President Street corridor with several other inns and dining rooms occupying period structures.
Sources
Local tradition holds that the most familiar of the inn's reported spirits is Anna, said in the 1990s and 2000s telling to have been a young woman whose lover sailed from the Savannah River and never returned. The narrative has Anna falling from a third-floor window into the brick courtyard below. Researchers and inn staff have observed that the wing in which this leap is typically located was added in 1888, well after the period assigned to her story; the lore predates verifiable architectural sequence and is best read as folk narrative rather than documented history.
Guests staying in room 204 have reported the most frequent activity associated with the Anna narrative. Common reports include jewelry, identification, and small clothing items moved between surfaces and later found behind furniture or inside planters. Staff have repeated these accounts for decades; the inn includes the room in its public ghost-tour materials.
A second figure appears in restaurant and tavern lore as Thaddeus, a child who is described leaving pennies on bar tops and tables. Servers occasionally report finding coins after a room has been cleaned. A third presence is associated with the kitchen and is described as resistant to women working in the space, with pots reported moved or knocked, and staff reporting being brushed or pushed while plating. None of these accounts is independently documented in newspaper or historical-society sources; all enter the public record through inn staff, ghost-tour operators, and guest reports collected since the 1990s.
The 17Hundred90 has long featured on Savannah ghost tours and is included in published guides to the city's hospitality hauntings. The inn itself maintains a dedicated page about its resident spirits and frequently fields paranormal inquiries.
Notable Entities
Three-course Lowcountry dining inside a brick-walled tavern said to host the spirit known to staff as Thaddeus, a boy who leaves pennies on the bar. Tables nearest the kitchen and lounge see the most reported activity.
Fourteen guest rooms in a layered historic compound. Room 204 is the room most associated with the lore of Anna, where guests have reported items moved between the dresser and the windowsill.
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