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Lafayette Square: Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home

This three-story house once was home to Edward and Regina O'Connor, whose only child, Mary Flannery, dropped the Mary in college and became famous as one of this country's outstanding authors. Flannery at age six was seen in a national newscast with her pet chicken, which she had trained to walk backward. She died in 1964 of lupus erythematosus, the same disease that had claimed her father in 1941. Her childhood home is now a house museum where readings of her work are presented regularly. 207 East Charlton Street.

--Visitor's Guide to Savannah

Lafayette Square
1. Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist
Abercorn Street at Lafayette Square. Oldest Roman Catholic Church in Georgia.
2. Andrew Low House Museum
329 Abercorn Street. Headquarters of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Georgia.
3. Battersby-Hartridge-Anderson House
(1852) 119 East Charleton Street. A brick residence in a design that's typical in Charleston, rare in Savannah.
4. Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home
(c.1855) 207 East Charlton Street. High-stooped house museum with a schedule of lectures and readings.
5. Hamilton-Turner House
(1873) 330 Abercorn Street. Outstanding example of Second Empire architecture with four iron balconies; house museum and gift shop.

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