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Champion-McAlpin-Fowlkes House

Irish architect Charles Blaney Cluskey is credited with the design of this mansion of scored stucco over brick. First to own and occupy the house was bank president Aaron Champion. During the Civil War, Champion hid his bank's gold in a well at the rear of the garden. After the war, he went to the well and recovered all but one ten dollar gold piece. Champion bequeathed his house to his only daughter, Maria Sophia, who had become Mrs. James W. McAlpin. She also inherited Hermitage Plantation from her father. (That's the plantation where Henry McAlpin manufactured Savannah grey bricks and whose foundry was first to produce cast iron in Savannah.) In 1939, Miss Alida Hooper (later Mrs. Hunter McGuire Fowlkes) acquired the house she had loved for years. Today the house belongs to the Georgia Chapter, Society of the Cincinnati.

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A. Mulberry Holiday Inn
B. Isaiah Davenport House
C. Owens-Thomas House
D. Mary Marshall Row
E. Cathedral of St. John the Baptist
F. Battersby-Hartridge-Anderson House
G. Flannery O'Connor House
H. Andrew Low House
I. Hamilton-Turner house
J. Temple Mickve Israel
K. Savannah Volunteer Guards Armory
L. Masonic Temple
M. Green-Meldrim House
N. St. Johns Episcopal Church
O. Sorrel-Weed house
P. 307-309 Bull St.
Q. Champion-McAlpin-Fowlkes House
R. U.S. Post Office
S. Lutheran Church of the Ascension
T. Juliette Gordon Low House
U. Christ Church
V. U.S. Customs House
W. Savannah Cotton Exchange