The Partridge Inn, Augusta: From Family Home to Winter-Resort Hotel

Every fact on this page comes from a named source listed at the bottom: the hotel’s own website, the National Park Service, Historic Hotels of America and other published histories, checked October 3, 2026. Where sources disagree, we say so. We don’t quote room rates, which change.

Part of It’s Georgia’s sourced list of Georgia’s historic hotels: every hotel and inn in the state still taking guests in a historic building, with the year each one went up.

The Partridge Inn at a glance

A family home becomes an inn

The inn began as a two-story house built in the early 1800s for the Meigs family from Connecticut, according to the National Park Service. Several sources date that house to 1836 and say it survives inside today’s hotel.

Around 1900, Morris W. Partridge, a seasonal hotel man who managed Augusta’s Bon Air Hotel, bought the Meigs house and began taking in guests (NPS). He doubled its size and opened it to the public as a hotel in 1910, per The Augusta Press. The inn was expanded several times between 1907 and 1929, and by 1929 it covered a city block.

Augusta’s winter-resort years

In the 1890s Summerville became a fashionable winter resort, and the Partridge Inn and the Bon Air hosted captains of industry and U.S. presidents escaping northern winters, the National Park Service says. In the early 1900s the Partridge Inn was Augusta’s second-favorite winter hotel for wealthy northern visitors.

Its plain front porch grew into the tiers of verandas the inn is known for. President William Howard Taft was a regular guest, according to The Augusta Press, and President Warren G. Harding attended a gala there in 1923 (Visit Augusta). A 1925 Christmas menu from the inn survives, featuring prime rib and ham.

Hard times and a rescue

After the Great Depression the inn became a year-round hotel and later apartments (NPS). In the late 1930s it nearly doubled again with new guest wings, ballrooms and meeting rooms, and by the 1960s it had become a place to stay for the Masters Tournament rather than a winter resort, per The Augusta Press.

By the late 1970s the building was run down, and in 1978 it faced demolition. Augusta attorney Sam Waller led the effort to save it (Hotel-Online), and it reopened as a hotel in 1987.

In 2006 it went through a certified rehabilitation using federal historic preservation tax credits (NPS). New owners bought it in 2014, and after a $6 million restoration it reopened on April 28, 2015, with more than a quarter mile of verandas and balconies restored. A renovation from late 2021 into 2022 updated the guest rooms, the bar, the exterior and the Six South rooftop.

What it is today

The inn has 143 rooms and suites, many with balconies or verandas, and is part of Hilton’s Curio Collection, which it joined in 2015. 8595 Restaurant & Bar serves modern Southern food, and the Six South Rooftop Bar has live music on Friday and Saturday nights. There is a 24-hour fitness center and an outdoor pool and courtyard. The main veranda has about 200 feet of ipe-wood flooring, per Mann Publications.

Check-in is at 3pm and check-out at 11am, according to the hotel FAQ. Up to two dogs under 80 lbs are allowed per room for a fee. The inn calls itself the closest hotel to Augusta National Golf Club, home of the Masters.

Where the sources disagree

• How old the house is: the National Park Service says early 1800s and others say 1836, but the hotel’s own history and some news stories say 1890s.
• When it was nearly lost: the hotel and Hotel-Online say it faced demolition in 1978; the National Park Service says it barely escaped demolition in the 1980s. Both agree it reopened in 1987.
• Rooms: 143 (the hotel) or 144 (Hotel-Online, 2015).
• Historic Hotels of America: the hotel says it is a member and it appears in HHA’s 2017 directory, but its pages on historichotels.org no longer load.

Plan the rest of the trip

• Augusta, Georgia: our city overview.
• Things to do in Augusta beyond the Masters.
• The Masters in Augusta: dates, tickets and getting there.
• Georgia’s historic hotels: 33 more still taking guests across the state.

Questions people ask

How old is the Partridge Inn?

Its oldest part is a family home from the early 1800s, often dated to 1836. It opened as a hotel in 1910 and grew through 1929.

Who was Partridge?

Morris W. Partridge, a hotel man who managed Augusta’s Bon Air Hotel. He bought the Meigs family home around 1900 and turned it into an inn, according to the National Park Service.

Is the Partridge Inn on the National Register of Historic Places?

Not on its own. It stands in the Summerville Historic District, which was added to the National Register in 1980.

Is the Partridge Inn close to Augusta National?

The hotel calls itself the closest hotel to Augusta National Golf Club, and it has been a Masters-week stay since at least the 1960s.

About Hank Whitlock

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