The Hampton Lillibridge House is a historic home in

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, United States. It is located at 507 East St. Julian Street, in the southwestern civic/trust lot of Washington Square, and was built around 1797.Historic Building Map: Savannah Historic District
– Historic Preservation Department of the Chatham County-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission (November 17, 2011) One of the oldest extant buildings in Savannah, it is now part of the

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. In a survey for the

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found the building, constructed by

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native Hampton Lillibridge, to be of significant status. Lillibridge died at Shandy Hall, near Savannah, on February 14, 1801, after contracting

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. His widowed second wife, Anna Orford, sold the house, at which point it became a boarding house. It is one of Savannah's few

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houses to have survived the fire of 1820. The home originally stood at 310 East Bryan Street, about away, in the northwestern residential lot of the adjacent Warren Square. The property was bought by

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in 1969. He moved it to its current location and restored it.

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Houses in Savannah, Georgia Houses completed in 1797 Savannah Historic District Washington Square (Savannah) buildings {{GeorgiaUS-struct-stub

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