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Georgia’s Historic Hotels: 34 Still Taking Guests, With Sources

34 Georgia hotels and inns still taking guests in historic buildings, from an 1817 Savannah cotton warehouse to a 1912 power plant. Searchable, sourced, free to cite.

By Hank Whitlock·Updated ·10 min read
The four-story brick Marshall House on Broughton Street in Savannah, with green shutters and a long two-story cast-iron veranda

What this page is for

Find a Georgia hotel or inn where the building itself is the history: when it went up, what it was before it took guests, and whether it is on the National Register.

  • Use it to: search by town or by what the building used to be (a cotton warehouse, a mill, an office tower, a millionaires’ club) and pick a stay with a story.
  • Where the facts come from: each hotel’s own website, National Park Service and National Register records, Historic Hotels of America and other published histories. Every hotel’s sources are listed at the bottom.
  • Read carefully: “not published” means we couldn’t find it in a reliable source, not that it doesn’t exist. Dates that sources disagree on show both.
  • Related: Athens’ three boutique hotels, compared and Georgia drive times.

Short answer: 34 Georgia hotels and inns still take overnight guests in historic buildings. The oldest building is the River Street Inn in Savannah, a cotton warehouse from 1817; the oldest built as a hotel is The Marshall House, opened on Broughton Street in 1851. 30 of the 34 started as something else, from family homes to an Atlanta office tower and a Savannah power plant, and 9 belong to Historic Hotels of America. Search or filter the table below; each row lists its sources.

34historic hotels and inns still taking guests
1817oldest building: River Street Inn, Savannah
1851oldest built as a hotel: The Marshall House
30started life as something else: homes, mills, offices, a power plant
9members of Historic Hotels of America
HotelBuilding went upFirst useTaking guests sinceNational RegisterHistoric Hotels of AmericaRoomsOfficial
River Street InnSavannah1817 (three upper floors added 1853)Cotton warehouse on Factors WalkNot publishedSavannah Historic District (National Historic Landmark district)Yes (1999)Not publishedsite
The Partridge InnAugustaEarly 1800s house, often dated 1836 (the hotel says 1890s); hotel wings through 1929Meigs family home1910Summerville Historic District (1980)Hotel says yes; not in HHA's current online directory143site
The 1842 InnMacon1842Gresham-Adams House, home of John GreshamNot publishedListed (per the site's National Register plaque)No19site
The AthenianAthens1846Greek Revival house built for Stevens Thomas2024Not foundNo11site
Eliza Thompson HouseSavannah1847 (addition c. 1870)Thompson family homec. 1977Savannah Historic District (National Historic Landmark district)No25site
The Marshall HouseSavannah1851Built as a hotel by Mary Magdalene Marshall1851 (closed in the 1950s; reopened 1999)Savannah Historic District (National Historic Landmark district)No68 (65 rooms, 3 suites)site
The DouglasSavannah1853Mansion on Oglethorpe AvenueNot publishedSavannah Historic District (National Historic Landmark district)No22site
The BriceSavannah1860sLivery stable, later a cotton warehouse and Savannah's first Coca-Cola bottling plant1982Savannah Historic District (National Historic Landmark district)No145site
The GastonianSavannah1868Two adjoining Regency Italianate homesNot publishedSavannah Historic District (National Historic Landmark district)No17site
Glen-Ella Springs InnClarkesvillec. 1870, with c. 1885 and c. 1900 additionsDavidson family home, then a springs hotelc. 1885Individually listed as Glen-Ella Springs Hotel (1990)No16site
Rothschild-Pound House InnColumbus1870 (moved to its current lot in 1993)Rothschild family house1995Not foundNo6 suites plus cottagessite
Hamilton-Turner InnSavannah1873Mansion of Samuel Pugh Hamilton on Lafayette Square1996Savannah Historic District (National Historic Landmark district)No17site
Bellwether HouseSavannah1876 (Visit Savannah says 1853)Two townhouses built for merchants Henry Dresser and Samuel Palmer2021Savannah Historic District (National Historic Landmark district)Yes (2021)15 suites (Visit Savannah says 16)site
The Smith HouseDahlonega1884Home of Capt. Frank W. Hall1922 (as a boarding house)Not foundIn HHA's 2017 directory; not confirmed in the current one16 in the historic inn, plus newer lodge roomssite
Jekyll Island Club ResortJekyll Island1886-87; opened January 1888 (Annex 1901)Clubhouse of the private Jekyll Island Club1888 as a private club; a hotel again since 1987Jekyll Island Historic District (1972); National Historic Landmark (1978)YesNot published as one total (Jekyll Ocean Club: 40 suites)site
Foley House InnSavannahLate 1800s, after the 1889 fireHome of Owen and Honoria FoleyNot publishedSavannah Historic District (National Historic Landmark district)No19site
Kehoe HouseSavannah1892Home of iron founder William Kehoec. 1992Savannah Historic District (National Historic Landmark district)No13site
Stonehurst PlaceAtlanta1896Hinman family homeAfter 1996Listed (per the inn)No6site
Surf Song Bed & BreakfastTybee Islandc. 1898Officers' quarters at Fort ScrevenNot publishedFort Screven Historic District (1982)NoNot publishedsite
Greyfield InnCumberland Islandc. 1901-05 per the National Register (the inn says 1900)Carnegie family home built for Margaret Carnegie Ricketson1962 per the National Register (the inn says 1964)Greyfield (National Register nomination, 2003)No15 in the main house, plus 2 cottagessite
Rivet HouseAthens1902 (company founded; mill site)Southern Manufacturing Company mill2024Not foundNo50site
The Candler HotelAtlanta1904-06Candler Building, office tower of Coca-Cola's Asa G. Candler2019ListedNot confirmed in HHA's current directoryNot publishedsite
The Georgian TerraceAtlanta1910-11; opened October 2, 1911Built as a hotel1911 (apartments 1991-97; hotel again since 1997)Fox Theatre Historic District (1978)Yes (2001)326site
JW Marriott Savannah Plant Riverside DistrictSavannah1912 (the Power Plant building; the other two buildings are new)Riverside Station power plant2020Inside the Savannah landmark district per Lodging Magazine; building status not confirmedYes (2022)419 across three buildingssite
Ellis HotelAtlanta1913Winecoff Hotel1913 (reopened as the Ellis in 2006-07)ListedYes (2023)127site
Riverview HotelSt. Marys1914 per the National Register form (Explore Georgia says 1916)Built as a hotel, with shops on the ground floor1914-16St. Marys Historic DistrictNoNot publishedsite
The Bell HotelAthens1916Southern Bell telephone building2025Not foundNo12site
The Lodge on Little St. Simons IslandLittle St. Simons Island1917Berolzheimer family hunting lodge1979Not foundNoUp to 32 guestssite
Lake Rabun HotelLakemont1922Built by August Andreae (Blue Ridge Country calls it a former hunting lodge)1922Not foundNoNot publishedsite
Glenn HotelAtlanta1923Glenn Building, a 10-story office building2006Listed (2008)No110site
Hotel ClermontAtlanta1924Bonaventure Arms apartments1939 (Clermont Motor Hotel)Not foundNo93site
Hotel Indigo Atlanta MidtownAtlanta1924-25The Carlton, a bachelor apartment building1930 (Cox-Carlton Hotel)Listed (2006)Yes (2021)Not publishedsite
The King and PrinceSt. Simons Island1935 (dance club); hotel building opened 1941Seaside private dance club1941Individually listed (2005)Yes (1996)Not publishedsite
The DeSotoSavannah1968 tower, replacing the 1890 DeSoto Hotel on the same siteBuilt as a hotel1890 on this site; current building 1968Inside the Savannah Historic District (the 1968 tower is newer than the district's historic period)Yes (2017)Not publishedsite

Each featured hotel gets its own page with the building’s full story, what it is like today and where the sources disagree. More are added every week.

How we built this list

A hotel or inn is in the list when two things are true. First, it takes overnight guests today, confirmed on its own website or a current visitor-bureau listing. Second, the building is historic: built before 1976, or on the National Register (on its own or in a historic district), or a member of Historic Hotels of America, the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s program.

For each one we recorded when the building went up, what it was first, when it began taking guests, its architect where one is published, its National Register status, Historic Hotels of America membership and its room count. Each fact comes from a source we opened, listed below. Wikipedia was used only to find leads, never as a source. We don’t list room rates, which change.

“Savannah Historic District” means the hotel stands inside Savannah’s National Historic Landmark district; we did not check whether each building is counted as a contributing building. The DeSoto’s current tower dates from 1968 and replaced the 1890 DeSoto Hotel on the same site; it is included because it is a Historic Hotels of America member.

What we left out, and why

  • Hotel Bardo Savannah (formerly Mansion on Forsyth Park): The 1888 Kayton house survives, but SAH Archipedia says the 2005 hotel was new construction that copied the house; the house holds a restaurant and cooking school. (source)
  • Spencer House Inn, St. Marys: Built as a hotel in 1872, but its official website did not load, so we could not confirm it still takes guests. (source)
  • Tybee Island Inn: In a former Fort Screven hospital building, but no build date is published.
  • Queen Anne Inn, Augusta: Listed by tourism sites as an 1894 house; no official website could be found. (source)
  • Dillard House, Dillard: No published build dates for the buildings guests stay in.
  • Hotel Warm Springs and the Paxton House, Thomasville: Their websites no longer load, so we could not confirm either is still open.
  • Perry Lane Hotel, Savannah: A new building, opened in 2018.
  • Hotel Tybee: The original hotel burned in 1909 and its successor was torn down in 1960; today's hotel only reuses the name.

Know a historic Georgia hotel we missed, or a fact that has changed? Tell us, with a source, and we’ll check it and update the list.

Download and cite

The full table is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0: download the CSV · JSON · Column definitions (34 rows, with every source). Please cite it as: It’s Georgia (2026). Georgia Historic Hotels Still Taking Guests. itsgeorgia.com/data/georgia-historic-hotels/

Sources for every hotel (34 hotels, all checked October 2-3, 2026)

Questions people ask

What is the oldest hotel in Georgia?

Of the hotels in this list, The Marshall House in Savannah is the oldest that was built as a hotel: Mary Magdalene Marshall opened it in 1851, and it has been restored and reopened. The oldest building now taking guests is the River Street Inn, a 1817 Savannah cotton warehouse.

Which Georgia hotels are in Historic Hotels of America?

In our list: River Street Inn, Bellwether House, Jekyll Island Club Resort, The Georgian Terrace, JW Marriott Savannah Plant Riverside District, Ellis Hotel, Hotel Indigo Atlanta Midtown, The King and Prince, The DeSoto. The Partridge Inn in Augusta says it is a member, and it and The Smith House in Dahlonega appear in the program’s 2017 directory, but neither shows in its current online directory; neither does The Candler Hotel in Atlanta.

Can I stay in a historic building outside Savannah?

Yes. Beyond Savannah’s 12 hotels and inns, the list includes the Jekyll Island Club (1886-87), the Greyfield Inn on Cumberland Island, seven Atlanta hotels from 1896 to 1925, Glen-Ella Springs and the Lake Rabun Hotel in the mountains, and inns in Augusta, Macon, Columbus and Athens.

About Hank Whitlock

Hank Whitlock is the pen name of the It's Georgia editor. Every guide is built around the questions a busy family actually asks before a trip: how long is the drive, what does parking cost, can the stroller make it, are dogs allowed. Details are checked against official park, city, and venue sources, and each guide shows the date it was last updated.

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