Mercer House, House museum in Monterey Square, Savannah, United States.
Mercer House is a house museum on Monterey Square in Savannah, Georgia, built in the Italianate style. The main facade displays five tall French windows, wrought-iron balconies, and a classical portico supported by columns.
Construction started in 1860 for General Hugh Mercer but was interrupted during the Civil War and only finished in 1868. Cotton merchant John Randolph Wilder took over the work after the war.
The house bears the name of General Hugh Mercer, great-grandfather of the Savannah-born songwriter Johnny Mercer, though no one of the Mercer name ever lived in it. Jim Williams held annual Christmas parties here on the eve of the Savannah Cotillion Club's debutante ball, and sorted invitations into an "in" box and an "out" box depending on whether the guest was in his favour.
Guided tours take place from Monday through Saturday between half past ten in the morning and ten past four in the afternoon, on Sundays from noon until four. The museum closes every Tuesday and Wednesday in August.
The house occupies a city trust lot, the only building in Savannah in private ownership to do so. In 1979 Jim Williams hung a Nazi flag from a window to disrupt a film shoot after the company refused a donation to the local humane society.
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