Magnolia Place honors the multi-cultural southern heritage in Savannah Georgia

Magnolia Place
(Second Floor)

Magnolia Place is a sunny room with a relaxing private balcony overlooking the pool, fish pond and courtyard gardens. Original hardwood floors and a decorative fireplace add vintage nostalgia to this popular room. The room boasts sweeping 11-foot ceilings, a four-poster queen bed and private bath with shower. (Rates: $189 to $295) [-]

As with beautifully and richly diverse plants, cultural and religious diversity prevails in Historic Savannah. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil author John Berendt once described Savannah as "enticing and mysterious and beautiful." Indigenous southern magnolias bloom with fragrant, creamy white flowers in the spring and intermittently throughout early summer.

Artists, writers, producers and photographers attempt to capture the essence of historic Savannah Georgia as well as the visual scenes, especially with nature showing off in Savannah style for year around Savannah attractions. Savannah's eclectic cultures found roots in the diverse composition of it's early colonists - Anglicans (Christ Church Savannah, the first parish church of the Georgia colony) and Jews (Mickve Israel Temple, the third oldest synagogue in the United States) from London, Evangelical Lutherans from Salzburg ( Lutheran Church of the Ascension), Scottish Highlanders, German Moravians followed by Dutch, Welsh, Irish (Catholic) settlers and followers of John Wesley (Methodists). Imported African slaves were brought to work on colonial corn, rice and indigo plantations, influenced Savannah with their oral histories, low country Gullah language, southern foods, and political life … and elements of voodoo, depicted in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil novel and movie. Here are two recipes from Turner South: Savannah Red Rice and Hush Puppies, which originated on the riverbanks of Savannah.

Just a short stroll east on Hunter Street is the King-Tisdell. The cottage is now a museum a beautifully restored 1896 Victorian cottage, named for local African-American citizens Eugene and Sarah King and Mrs. King's second husband, Robert Tisdell, is a museum that highlights the contributions of African Americans to Georgia and the nation's history; Tue-Sat 12-5p, Sun 1p-4p; 514 E Huntingdon Street; 912-234-8000

The “Azalea Room of Levy's Department Store” is recreated at the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum. On March 16, 1960, Carolyn Quilloin, a NAACP Youth Council member, was arrested for asking to be served at the Azalea Room lunch counter at Levy's department store [now the Savannah College of Art and Design Library located on Broughton and Abercorn Streets] in downtown Savannah.

There are plenty of places on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina and Daufauski Island South Carolina and in the surrounding low country of Georgia coast and South Carolina coastal sea island areas in which to immerse you in the Gullah culture and learn about the unique history of these Sea Island natives.

Gullah Heritage Trail Tours
528 Spanish Wells Road
Hilton Head Island, SC
843-689-9317

Gullah-n-Geechie Mahn Tours
761 Sea Island Parkway
St. Helena Island, SC
843-838-7516

The Point Historic Tours' Sea Island-Gullah Tour
1-888-747-TOUR
A three-hour tour in luxury coach with several stops.

Self Family Arts Center:
843-842-ARTS

Gullah Flea Market:
103 William Hilton Pkwy
843-681-7374

Penn Center, Inc.:
110 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
St. Helena Island, SC
843-838-2432
Cultural lessons, lectures and demonstrations

The Gullah Institute:
843-838-8560
A six-day residential program designed for teachers who want to study or teach the history and culture of Gullah and the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia. Held on the Penn Center campus.

Stoney-Baynard Ruins
Sea Pines Plantation
Hilton Head Island, SC
843-363-4530
Take a self-guided tour of the remains of an 1800 plantation house and its outbuildings.


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Inn Accommodations :: 2nd Floor

Live Oak Canopy's Savannah bed and breakfast hotel room brings the gardens of Savannah outdoors into the Inn Savannah Georgia hotel © Azalea Inn, a Savannah garden hotel and bed and breakfast inn in Savannah Georgia Historic District

Live Oak Canopy
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Live Oak Canopy ' s private balcony sits high in the boughs of the live oak that wraps its arms around this outside sitting area and overlooks the pool and courtyard garden. Even a business holiday can be enjoyed from this perch! Relax in the queen four-poster bed with a glass of wine and a good book while enjoying the warmth of the fireplace in winter. This room has a deep green motif with a captivating easy feeling of being in a treehouse (but, much more comfortable!). The room also features a private bath with shower. (Rates: $189 to $295)

Southern Magnolia Place is a colonial inn hotel room in Savannah Georgia, colonial Georgia excellent for pleasant holidays and nature photography and golf holidays © Azalea Inn, a Savannah garden hotel bed and breakfast in Savannah GA

Magnolia Place
(Second Floor) [-]

Magnolia Place is a sunny room with a relaxing private balcony overlooking the pool, fish pond and courtyard gardens. Original hardwood floors and a decorative fireplace add vintage nostalgia to this popular room. The room boasts sweeping 11-foot ceilings, a four-poster queen bed and private bath with shower. (Rates: $189 to $295)

The colonial Georgia heritage garden on Huntingdon Street inspired the name Huntingdon Garden at the colonial hotel in colonial Georgia for nature photography and golf holidays © Azalea Inn, a Savannah garden hotel and bed and breakfast mansion in Savannah GA

Huntingdon Garden
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The Huntingdon Garden, the original master bedroom of the mansion, features a four-poster king bed so high steps are needed to reach it! Unwind on the lounging couch with a flute of champagne and chocolate-dipped strawberries in the glow of the room’s gas-light fireplace. Robin’s-egg blue walls with cream and chocolate-brown accents highlight the stately 11-foot ceilings and the bath with walk-in shower. Make it a girlfriend getaway for three when the daybed is used to comfortably accommodate cozy conversation between best friends. (Rates: $199 to $305 for up to three guests)

Nature photography and pleasant holidays begin or end in Forsyth Park, Savannah GA, which was originally named Forsyth Place. Azalea Inn honors the neighborhood Forsyth Park inn and mansion which includes this Victorian inn mansion near Forsyth Park © Azalea Inn, a Savannah GA bed and breakfast inn in Savannah GA near Forsyth Park

Forsyth Place
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Forsyth Place Let the warmth of this romantic light-filled room named in honor of Forsyth Park envelope you. Slide into sleep in the queen bed nestled in the bay window under soaring 11-foot ceilings. Relax in the single whirlpool tub following a day of exploration and wonder. The decorative fireplace and original carved mantle entice thoughts of days gone by. Lazily enjoy morning coffee on your sitting balcony overlooking our heritage garden and catch a glimpse of Savannah’s historic homes. (Rates: $189 to $295)

Also called Umbrella Tree, Chinaberry Balcony honors the historic Savannah Georgia tree canopy of the Chinaberry Balcony found along Savannah Georgia streets, in nature photography of Greenwich Cemetery © Azalea Inn, a hotel Savannah Georgia garden hotel inn and one of Savannah GA hotels with hotel rooms in the historic district

Chinaberry Balcony
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Chinaberry Balcony Enjoy views of stately Magnolia trees and the Inn’s heritage gardens when you step through a window of time onto your sitting balcony nestled above the brick-lined walks of Huntingdon Street. Nineteenth century craftsmanship lingers in the dark wood mantle and in the vintage fireplace tiles. Sweeping 11-foot ceilings, queen bed and single whirlpool tub/shower combination complete your retreat from the frantic pace of day to day living. (Rates: $189 to $295)