Savannah Literary, Art & Music Tours

The Davenport is an overlooked gem of a home tour. The preservation movement in Savannah began here. Our guide, Kya, was awesome. The staff's passion for history and detail was impressive. The tour was well paced with time for questions and we weren't rushed.

Excellent tour, very informative.

Good people its really quiet here staff is really great including maintenance man

Our tour guide Brad was knowledgeable and funny. We really enjoyed it. We learned a lot about the book and its background, even though we’d all just read the book in our book club.

Whiskey was very nice and very informative. We took three tours this trip and probably learned the most during this one.

Great tour of this historic house to see inside and learn about the 18+ people who lived or worked there. The family lived on floors two and three. The first floor is where the slaves cooked meals and did other chores and where some of the slaves slept. We had a docent give a 70-minute tour. There was a lot to see on the first floor and so much history on all of the people and what their lives were like. I highly recommend this house and tour if you not only want to see inside a house, but learn a lot about the people and what their lives were like (lots of artifacts from the family and period pieces).

Great house and guide. Lots of stories and History. You will also learn about the Preservation movement and its history.

Whether you saw the movie or you read the book this tour gives you exact locations and William was VERY informative. I would highly suggest this tour. But bring plenty of water if you’re touring in the summer

Our tour guide was excellent and gave a ton of information. He definitely knew the story and shared a lot of information that we were unaware of. I appreciate the fact that he let us know the Mercer Williams home can possibly be going residential, so my friend and I went on and toured the home while it’s still available. We enjoyed all of our tour and realized we chose the best one! Thank you

We toured the Davenport House on our trip to Savannah. Our docent was very knowledgeable and paced the tour beautifully. You start in the welcome center (behind the old pharmacy) and hear how this wonderful building was saved from becoming a parking lot. Then into the courtyard followed by the street level story of the house. This has been restored to tell the story of enslaved people at the time the Davenports lived there along with information on each of the people who were there. After that the tour moves to the main living floor and upstairs bedroom floor where you get an understanding of life in Savannah as well as the particular story of Isaiah Davenport's family.

We had purchased tickets on line for specific time. We were ahead of schedule and they were able to fit us in on an earlier tour. The old pharmacy behind the Davenport house is where you can purchase tickets and read the timeline on the wall in the attached museum. This is where you meet your docent. The house was scheduled to be torn down for a parking lot for neighboring funeral home. Learn about and see a picture of the women that saved this house on the timeline. Our docent, I think "Louann", did well engaging us throughout the tour. She had a strong knowledge base about the family, house architecture and enslaved. In 1827, Sarah was 8 months pregnant with their 10th child when Isaiah died from Yellow Fever. She turned the house into a boarding house until 1840. Furnishing are time period. Photos without flash are allowed. Hop On n Off Trolley stops here. The trolley is where we learned about and saw the building where Isaiah and Sarah lived while this house was being built. Tour was about 70 minutes. Senior ticket is $13.50.

friendly, and knowledgeable Great tour guide. Learned a lot about early days in Savanah. Glad we took it

We had a wonderful time on our tour. Our tour guide was knowledgeable and they even brought magazine clippings from the events surrounding the movie. If you get a chance to go don't miss out!

Thoroughly enjoyed this tour. Guide was a great storyteller which added to the experience. Stopped halfway for a rest stop and to purchase water.

We we're unable to join the tour, however a full refund was processed. So we're happy about that and will attend the tour on our next visit.

It was quite interesting hearing the "behind the scenes" details and nuances of the writer, characters portrayed, the people who came to Savannah to bring the story alive, as well as the actors that played them.