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]

Joe Odom House
The building in 2022
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LocationSavannah, Georgia, U.S.
Address16 East Jones Street
Coordinates32°04′21″N 81°05′37″W / 32.0725°N 81.0935°W / 32.0725; -81.0935
Completed1847 (177 years ago) (1847)

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][5] although he died three years before the book's 1994 release.[6]

A block south of Madison Square, this and 18 East Jones are two of the earliest constructions on the street.[4]

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  1. ^ a b Historic Building Map: Savannah Historic District – Historic Preservation Department of the Chatham County-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission (November 17, 2011)
  2. ^ Historic Savannah: Survey of Significant Buildings in the Historic and Victorian Districts of Savannah, Georgia, Mary Lane Morrison (1979), p. 174
  3. ^ Savannah, Immortal City: Volume One of the Civil War Savannah Series - Barry Sheehy, Cindy Wallace, Vaughnette Goode-Walker (2011), p. 288
  4. ^ a b "Jones Street, Savannah, Ga". GoSouthSavannah. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
  5. ^ "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" (PDF). p. 105.
  6. ^ "MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF FACT AND FICTION" - Washington Examiner, December 29, 1996