Joe Odom House Explained

Joe Odom House
Location:	Savannah, Georgia, U.S.
Address:	16 East Jones Street
Coordinates:	32.0725°N -81.0935°W

The Joe Odom House is a home in Savannah, Georgia, United States. It is located at 16 East Jones Street and was constructed in 1847.^[1]

The building is part of the Savannah Historic District,^[1] and in a survey for the Historic Savannah Foundation, Mary Lane Morrison found the building to be of significant status.^[2]

Built for Eliza Ann Jewett, it later become the home of Joe Odom.^[3] Odom, an attorney-turned-musician was featured in the John Berendt non-fiction novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,^[4] although he died three years before the book's 1994 release.^[5]

A block south of Madison Square, this and 18 East Jones are two of the earliest constructions on the street.^[6]

See also

• Buildings in Savannah Historic District

Notes and References

1. https://www.thempc.org/docs/lit/hist/maps/supplement.pdf Historic Building Map: Savannah Historic District
2. Historic Savannah: Survey of Significant Buildings in the Historic and Victorian Districts of Savannah, Georgia, Mary Lane Morrison (1979), p. 174
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=Pl1aavDFhPUC&dq=Augustus+Bonaud+savannah+georgia&pg=PA289 Savannah, Immortal City: Volume One of the Civil War Savannah Series
4. Web site: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil . 105 .
5. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/midnight-in-the-garden-of-fact-and-fiction "MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF FACT AND FICTION"
6. Web site: Jones Street, Savannah, Ga . GoSouthSavannah . March 21, 2021 .