| Greene Square | |
| Namesake: | Nathanael Greene |
| Location: | Savannah, Georgia, U.S. |
| Maint: | City of Savannah |
| Coordinates: | 32.0763°N -81.0861°W |
| North: | Houston Street |
| South: | Houston Street |
| West: | East President Street |
| East: | East President Street |
Greene Square is one of the 22 squares of Savannah, Georgia, United States. It is the easternmost square in the second row of the city's five rows of squares. The square is located on Houston Street and East President Street, and is south of Washington Square, east of Columbia Square and north of Crawford Square. The oldest buildings on the square are at 510 East York Street, 509 East President Street (both former properties of George Jones) and 503 East President Street (Thomas Williams House), each in the southwestern trust/civic block, which are believed to have been built at the same time as the square itself (1799).
The square is named for Revolutionary War hero General Nathanael Greene, an aide to George Washington.[1] A native of Rhode Island, Greene commanded Southern forces during the Revolution, and after the war settled at Mulberry Grove, an estate 14miles above Savannah. Greene, along with his son, is actually buried in Savannah's Johnson Square.
134 Houston Street, in the square's southeastern tything block, dates to the late 1800s.[2] Between 1899 and the mid-1900s it was the home of the Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten.[3]
Greene Square was once the center of Savannah's African-American community.[4] In the northwestern trust lot is the Second African Baptist Church, the site where Union Army general William Tecumseh Sherman announced Special Field Orders 15, better known as "40 acres and a mule".
546–548 East President Street (known as the Mary Cullum Property, now occupied by the Green Palm Inn) are two seamen's cottages, built circa 1897.[2]
The John Dorsett House, in the northwestern tything, is the smallest free-standing house in the city, hence its nickname Tiny House. It was moved here from 422 Hull Street.[5]
In 1967, Savannah landscape architect Clermont Huger Lee and banker Mills B. Lane planned and initiated a project to replace the cistern that caved-in, design and install shoring, close the fire lane, and install new walks, benches, lighting and planting.[6]
See also: Buildings in Savannah Historic District.
Each building below is in one of the eight blocks around the square composed of four residential "tything" blocks and four civic ("trust") blocks, now known as the Oglethorpe Plan. They are listed with construction years where known.