This fine Federal-style home was completed by master-builder Isaiah Davenport as his family residence in 1820. Authentically restored, the house museum features original plasterwork, a cantilever staircase and furnishings true to the 1820s. The site also features a courtyard garden that was originally a Bicentennial project of the Trustees' Garden Club and was later re-designed by noted horticulturist Penelope Hobhouse. Threatened with demolition in 1955, the saving of the Davenport House was the first effort of the Historic Savannah Foundation and the beginning of the historic preservation renaissance in this port city.
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COMING IN MARCH & MAY...
Isaiah Davenport House Museum presents…
"TEA AT MRS. DAVENPORT’S"
Learn about tea traditions and experience an early 19th century tea in the historic atmosphere of the Isaiah Davenport House Museum. In the 1820’s, people in Savannah of means or burgeoning means, showed their civility, hospitality and refinement by serving tea in their homes, as well as, being served tea in the homes of their friends and acquaintances. On Thursday afternoons in March and again on Thursday afternoons in May, the Davenport House Museum will examine the history and ritual of tea in the early 19th century. To highlight the program, participants and costumed interpreters will take late afternoon tea as they would have when the Davenports lived in the home.
During the program, participants will see the variety of equipment necessary to present a successful tea, view rooms in the home when tea was taken as well as taking tea themselves. Tea will be served more in the manner of a character in a Jane Austen novel than of the high tea of the Victorian Age.
While the tea program will be held indoors during March, the May program will be conducted in the museum’s garden. For information or reserve a place, call 912/236-8097 or email info@davenporthousemuseum.org. Admission is $18 per adult and $14 for students ages 8 to 17. Due to logistical constraints, each program will be limited to 14 participants.
Inventory of Isaiah Davenport (1828): 1 mahogany tea table – 4.00, 12 teasponns & 1 pair sugar tongs – 68.00, 1 fine china teasett – 50.00…
"If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are too heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you. If you are excited, it will calm you." William Gladstone.
The Davenport House is a property of Historic Savannah Foundation. |
www.historicsavannahfoundation.org
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