{"nrhp_refnum":"70000201","name":"Scarbrough, William, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"41 W. Broad St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Savannah","county":"Chatham County","state":"GA","lat":32.08048239900006,"lon":-81.09900244899995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-06-22","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1973-11-07","areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story stuccoed mansion at 41 West Broad Street in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, designed by William Jay and completed in 1819 for merchant William Scarbrough at a cost of $75,000.","why_significant":"The form presents it as a leading example of English Regency neoclassical town house design by architect William Jay, and as the sole survivor of Savannah's \"Court End\" district of mansions. It is also tied to Scarbrough, a shipping promoter of the S.S. Savannah, and to President Monroe's 1819 visit to the city.","narrative":"Completed in 1819 on West Broad Street in Savannah, this three-story stuccoed mansion was designed by English-born architect William Jay for the merchant William Scarbrough and cost $75,000. It is the only survivor of the \"Court End\" district, once a cluster of fashionable mansions near the bay front. The east facade has a Greek Doric portico, and the south side has a cast-iron piazza with fluted Corinthian columns. Inside, a two-story atrium with four Doric columns was praised by architectural historian F.D. Nichols as a high point of neoclassical town house design in America. Scarbrough hosted President James Monroe here during his 1819 visit to inspect the steamship Savannah, but he lost the house to bankruptcy by 1820. A third story was added later, probably between 1835 and 1845. In 1878 George W.J. DeRenne turned it into a school under a trust, and a foundation began restoring it in 1969.","period_of_significance":"19th Century; specific dates 1818-1819, 1835, 1878, 1969 (restoration)","architect_builder":"William Jay (architect)","architectural_style":"English Regency (neoclassical)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked good, with restoration in progress under restoration architect Edward Vason Jones; owned by the Scarbrough House Foundation, Inc.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.061611-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/70000201.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000201/8aead7749f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000201/8aead7749f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ebyabe","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GA_Savannah_Scarbrough_House02.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ebyabe</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GA_Savannah_Scarbrough_House02.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207349","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Scarbrough_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8018161"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/chatham-county/scarbrough-william-house-70000201/"}