Reviewed by Josh N · Updated August 4, 2026 · How we verify
Reported Phenomena
- Female apparition
- Reported resident ghost
Reported by visitors & local legend. Stories, not verified claims.
Ask around the squares of Savannah, Georgia, about which building holds the city’s most durable ghost story and the answer tends to arrive with a room number attached. The 17 Hundred 90 Inn ghost is said to be Anna Powers, a young woman who lived in one of the houses that now make up this inn, restaurant and tavern on East President Street. The historical record here is unusually clear about the bricks and unusually thin about Anna, and it is worth keeping the two apart.
Quick orientation: the inn sits on East President Street, just west of Columbia Square, inside the Savannah Historic District. It is Savannah’s oldest inn, occupying a building dating to 1790, which means the structure pre-dates the square it looks toward. The tavern has its own entrance at the corner of Lincoln Street and East York Street.
Three Separate Houses Behind One Address
What reads today as a single inn was originally three separate residences, joined over time. The western part of the building, on Lincoln Street, was built around 1822 by Steele White and was a duplex. The smaller eastern section came much later, put up by the Powers family in 1888. The ground level is believed to be part of an earlier structure that burned in the Savannah fire of 1820, which is part of why the 1790 date belongs to the fabric rather than to any one facade you can point at from the sidewalk.
That layered construction matters to the ghost story. When people talk about the haunted room, they are talking about a building that has been added to, burned, rebuilt and stitched together across roughly a century, with the Powers name attached to the newest piece of it.
Who Anna Powers Was Said to Be
Anna Powers was a resident of one of the three properties from the late 18th century into the early 19th century. Beyond that, the story passes out of record and into legend, and it comes in more than one version.
The most repeated telling is that she jumped from one of the building’s windows to her death after an argument with her love interest, an English sailor who had gone AWOL to be with her. Another version holds that she did not jump at all but was pushed, possibly by another woman in love with the same sailor. Both accounts circulate as local lore rather than as documented fact. There is no verified account here of how Anna Powers died, only the two competing stories and the window they both involve.
What Guests Say Happens at the Inn
Her ghost is reported to haunt the property. That is the substance of the claim, and it is a reported experience rather than anything established. Visitors and staff attach her presence to the building rather than to any single documented incident, and the inn’s reputation has travelled well beyond Savannah: it was featured in a season 2 episode of the television series My Ghost Story.
Anyone hoping for a catalogue of measured activity should temper expectations. The lore is concentrated in one figure and one death, and the appeal of the place is atmospheric: an eighteenth century ground floor, a tavern on a corner two blocks off Columbia Square, and a name that has been repeated in Savannah ghost tours for decades.
Staying and Drinking at 17 Hundred 90
Unlike many of the buildings that appear on Savannah’s ghost walks, this one is a working business you can book. It operates as an inn, a restaurant and a tavern, so a visit can mean a room, a meal, or a drink at the Lincoln and East York entrance without committing to the night. The inn also owns a three-story guest house across East York Street, which is worth knowing if you are asking specifically for a room in the historic building rather than the annex.
Because it sits inside the Savannah Historic District, the surrounding blocks are walkable and heavily touristed, and Columbia Square is a short stroll east. Guests should treat the inn as a hotel first: staff are running a hospitality business, not a paranormal attraction, and access to guest rooms depends on bookings rather than curiosity.
Address: East President Street, Savannah, Georgia
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Sources
- Savannah Historic District
- NPGallery NRHP Archive Search (National Park Service)
- State Senate candidates Brown and Orozco square off
- Haunted Hotels in Savannah – Savannah, GA | Savannah.com
- 17Hundred90 History, 17Hundred90 Inn & Restaurant
- Wikipedia: 17 Hundred 90 Inn
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