Old Governor's Mansion, National Historic Landmark and house museum in Milledgeville, United States
The Old Governor's Mansion is a house museum in Milledgeville featuring stuccoed brick walls with a rectangular plan and a hip roof rising two stories. The structure displays classical Greek Revival characteristics and includes rooms that represent life during the early 1800s.
The building was completed in 1839 and served as the official residence of eight Georgia governors before the state capital moved to Atlanta in 1868. This relocation marked the end of its role as a seat of state power.
Tours at the mansion cover the lives of both the free and enslaved people who lived and worked on the site, and the complexities of antebellum Georgia society. The building served as the first dormitory of Georgia Normal and Industrial College, now Georgia College, with the president's apartment on the second floor. The college began offering tours of the ground floor in 1967.
Tours start on the hour, with the last tour leaving at 4pm; the house is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 4pm and Sunday from 2pm to 4pm. The mansion stands at the corner of Clarke and Greene Streets, just south of the Georgia College campus, behind a brick retaining wall topped by a low white fence.
General Sherman made the mansion his headquarters during his March to the Sea and slept in the family dining room on the night of November 23, 1864. The house had been claimed as a prize by his troops.
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