Click here to view the Kehoe House Virtual Tour Map. The Kehoe House features 13 guest rooms, each uniquely furnished and named for prominent figures in Savannah history. Luxury King (with Veranda Access). James Edward Oglethorpe. Deluxe King (without Veranda Access). George Whitefield Room. ROOMS AT THE KEHOE HOUSE. John Martin Bolzius Room. This Luxury King bedded room is located on the second floor with a full bath/shower combination. The Bolzius room has a shared veranda overlooking Columbia Square. John Bolzius came to Georgia in 1734 as the 1st minister of the Salzburgers, a group of Lutherans escaping persecution in Austria. This generous Deluxe King bedded room is located on the second floor with a stand-up shower. This room has access to a shared veranda outside the guest room door. Tybee Island is a barrier island and a popular beach destination. Juliette Gordon Low Room. This Deluxe King bedded room with a standup shower is located on the second floor overlooking the Davenport House Gardens. Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts of America in 1912, at her home on Lafayette Square in Savannah. This Deluxe King room, on the second floor, is one of the most spacious king bedded guest rooms with a bathtub/shower combination. The Wesley Room has 3 large windows overlooking Columbia Square, inviting Savannah's sunlight. John Wesley established the world's first Sunday School and was the founder of Methodism. This Luxury King bedded room is located at the front of the house on the second floor with a bathtub/shower combination. This room has an exceptional view with private and shared verandas. Johnny Mercer is a master lyricist and is known for his Award winning song Moon River. This Luxury King bedded guest room, on the third floor, has a bathtub/shower combination and a shared veranda. Tomochichi was a Creek Indian, in his youth, a great warrior. He had excellent judgment ready wit, which showed itself in his answers on all occasions- James Edward Oglethorpe. This Deluxe King bedded guest room is located on the third floor, with a stand up shower and view of the Davenport House Gardens. Caroline Finch was a fine teacher of music and it was said that if anyone could bring out the talent in a child, Miss Finch could. James Edward Oglethorpe Room. This Luxury King bedded room has full bathtub/shower combination private veranda overlooking Columbia Square. The room is located on the third floor. James Oglethorpe founded the trust colony of Georgia in Savannah. As its leader, he secured Georgia for English rule by defeating the Spanish. This Luxury King bedded room, on the third floor, has a full bathtub/shower combination a view of Columbia Square. Fiore cast the original mold for Savannah's famous The Waving Girl statue of Florence Martus, who waved to sailors from all over the world for generations. This Superior Queen room with a bath and shower combination is located on the Courtyard level, (one floor below Parlor Level with windows at ground level). James Pierpont composed Jingle Bells, while serving as the organist and choir director of the Unitarian Association of Savannah. This Superior Queen bedded room has a shower and a clawfoot tub. Its located on the Courtyard level, and is handicapped accessible. George Whitefield founded Bethesda Orphanage in Savannah, in 1740, the oldest continuously operating orphanage in the United States. This Deluxe King bedded room has a Jacuzzi bath and shower combination. It is the largest room with sitting area at the Kehoe House, and is located on the Courtyard level. Nicknamed by her friend, Johnny Mercer, as The Lady of Six Thousand Songs, Emma Kelly was a popular pianist and singer in Savannah nightspots. Emma was a notable character in the John Berendt book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and played herself in the film based on the book. John Adam Treutlen Room. This Deluxe King bedded room has a bath and shower combination and is located on the Parlor Level. An orphan at the Lutheran settlement of New Ebenezer in the early 1730s, Treutlen represented the Ebenezer district in the Provincial Congress. In 1777, he became the first elected Governor for the state of Georgia and died a martyr's death during the Revolutionary war.

Let the staff at The Kehoe House help make your Savannah experience a unique and memorable event. From sightseeing tours to a spa treatment, will gladly assist you with your plans. Please note that some tours (especially the private carriage tours, massages and private walking tours) do require you to contact the concierge so that we can set it up at your convenience. Please also note that the private carriage tours tend to book up in advance and last minute requests may not be able to be filled and/or the time selection may be very limited. For any further questions and/or dining reservations, please feel free to contact the concierge at or at 800.820.1020 at any time. Chilled bottled of champagne with chocolate covered strawberries with turndown service. A one hour couples massage at the Vanilla Day Spa. Chilled bottled of champagne with chocolate covered strawberries at turndown service. Totally Savannah Experience. Private carriage tour for two (50 minutes) (contact the concierge to arrange your tour times), two tickets for the Savannah Stroll, a 90 minute group walking tour (10am or 1pm daily), and a chilled bottle of champagne with turndown service. Savannah's Homes Gardens. Two tickets for the Gates Gardens tour, a 90 minute group walking tour (daily at 1pm and 4pm), tickets for two for the Owens Thomas House, and a private carriage tour for two (50 minutes) (Please contact the concierge to arrange your tour times). Enjoy a two hour private walking tour with tour guide Harriet Meyerhoff. Harriet will pick you up at the Kehoe House and can customize the tour just to your liking - history, architecture, gardens, movie sites, Jewish heritage or a little bit of all. Includes a chilled bottle of champagne with turndown service.

A Savannah Authors Look at The Kehoe House. James Caskey is an author and historian who focuses on the weird history, folklore, and ghost stories of Savannah, Georgia. He founded Cobblestone Tours in August of 2001, and his tours have been featured on the Travel Channel program 'Americas Most Haunted Places- Savannah', PBS's 'Southern Haunts' and Fox Sports Net's 'Destination Wild', and in an article in the New York Daily News. He is currently writing both a follow-up book to 'Haunted Savannah' and a guidebook and history of Savannah, Georgia. An Excerpt from James Caskeys Haunted Savannah Copyright © 2005 James Caskey Originally published as Haunted Savannah: The Official Guidebook to Savannah Haunted History Tour. Reprinted here with special permission from the author. Savannah Why So Haunted? by James Caskey. One cannot walk down Savannahs streets at twilight without feeling evidence of her supernatural side. The old beautiful homes practically emanate the aura of lost loves, lives cut short, and other misfortunes. The Spanish moss-drenched live oaks set the mood. The dead never truly depart in Savannah. One just has to walk into a shop, hotel or restaurant in Savannah and strike up a conversation with the staff, and the talk will turn inevitably to the supernatural. Any old tavern worth its salt has a good ghost story. It is in these stories we find common elements: tragedy, lost youth, and occasionally, redemption. Can a better setting for a ghost story be found than the Olde Pink House or the Kehoe House? Savannahs Historic District sets the mood like no other city. On one edge of Columbia Square sits the massive Kehoe House, built in 1892 for William Kehoe. The Queen Anne style mansion was built as the Kehoe residence, and it showcased what William was known for in Savannah: iron. What else would the owner of an ironworks foundry use to adorn his house but cast iron railings, Corinthian columns, porches, balconies, and window moldings? The house was built for the sum of $25,000. William Kehoe is fondly remembered by his granddaughter, Anne C. Rizert, in a November, 1969 issue of the Savannah News Press Magazine. She remembered him as a small person but he stood tall because he had that intangible presence of a man who recognizes his own worth, knowing it was Gods graceful gift. She goes on to say that he was very young when he became involved in the Civil War. He had the misfortune to be poor and on the losing side but this was irrelevant to him. Irishmen always seemed to fight well for lost causes. Perhaps this poor Irish upbringing explains why he was so fair with his workers. One amusing story involves a worker named Woodrow, who was a jack of all trades for the Kehoe family for many years. Woodrow had a weakness for strong drink which often landed him at the Brown Farm, a now-defunct work farm for misdemeanor offenders. Mr. Kehoe went looking for Woodrow one day at the Brown, and no one was sentenced there by that name. There was, however, someone named Kehoe, which of course Woodrow had used as a pseudonym. Rather than being insulted, Kehoe was touched that Woodrow would think enough of him to adopt him. The Kehoe family was very largeten children in all. This number may not include stillborn or children who died as infants or very young. Over the years it was a private residence, but it spent the majority of the 20th century as a funeral home. Today, it is a bed and breakfast, one of the only 4-Star bed and breakfasts in the South, and the only one in Savannah. It is also quite possibly Americas only haunted 4-Star establishment. A Tragic End for Twins? A persistent story, perhaps legend and perhaps not, told about the Kehoe family is that twins were born into the Kehoe family, and that they supposedly died while playing in a chimney in one of the rooms. The fireplaces have all been blocked up, and decorated with angelsperhaps symbolizing the lost children. A series of hauntings have been attributed to these children. Guests on the second floor have often heard childrens laughter and small footsteps running down the hall. Some guests have even complained the next morning to the front desk, not realizing that children are strongly discouraged from staying in such a prestigious inn. Even if the rumors of the twins dying in the fireplace are not true, it would not be unusual for the sounds of childrens feet running down the halls at the Kehoe House, given the size of the Kehoe clan. Many of the stories in the house center on the rooms 201 and 203. A guest of room 201 said she awoke in the middle of the night after feeling someone softly stroking her hair and cheek. Thinking that it was her husband, she opened her eyes to find a young child caressing her facea child who then vanished. No word on whether her screams woke her husband! In room 203, two sisters had an odd occurrence. One awoke feeling as if someone was sitting next to her. When she opened her eyes, she saw that her sister was sound asleep on the other side of the room, but there was an impression of someone unseen sitting right next to her on the bed. Even the staff has had some strange incidents. A member of the front desk claims that the doorbell rang one day, even though she could clearly see that no one was there through the beautiful cut-glass door. She ignored this, thinking perhaps that it was a wiring problem. The doorbell rang a second and then a third time. She was about to call for maintenance when suddenly the door unlocked and opened by itself. She found that not only had that happened with the front door, but it had happened to all the outside doors in the house. Apparently she was dealing with a ghost that did not like to be kept waiting. William Kehoe had a weakness for cupolas. His granddaughter Anne theorized that it was perhaps his way of being the lord of all he surveyed. His cottage at Tybee, his foundry, (and) his home all had one and it was his private preserve for meditation and escape. This may explain why the cupolas window in the Kehoe House is frequently lit long after dusk. The staff professes no desire to go up into the drafty rafters of the old house, so perhaps it is William, once again feeling like the lord of his domain. One night a tour guide was passing by the northern side of the Kehoe House with her tour group, and she heard the voice of a little boy, who said, Play... come play with me. She simply assumed that she was imagining things, until a member of her tour cried out, Oh my God, did you just hear that? The guide simply turned back towards her tour and smiledit was not the first time strange things had happened on one of her tours. All of the tour goers had heard the disembodied voice of the small boy. Perhaps the scariest story involving the Kehoe House has nothing to do with ghosts. The house was bought in 1980 by Joe Namath, former New York Jets quarterback (and celebrated pitchman for pantyhose). The persistent rumor is that Broadway Joe, as he was called, planned on turning the Kehoe House into nightclub and disco. The residents around Columbia Square voiced an outcry, and the planned nighttime hotspot never materialized. The conservative families around Columbia Square apparently did not have Boogie Fever, and there is a chance they would have turned Joe Namaths nightclub into a Disco Inferno. Burn, baby burn, indeed. However, as an investment for Namath, the house did very well: bought in 1980 for $80,000, the house sold in 1989 for $530,000.