Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, Historic house museum in Savannah, United States.
The Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, also called the Wayne–Gordon House, is a two-story Federal-style house with a raised basement, built in 1821 of brick covered in stucco scored to look like stone. It is attributed to the English architect William Jay. Regency features include two curved bay windows at the back, plaster cornices and ceiling medallions, marble fireplaces, and shallow recessed elliptical blind arches around the second-story windows. A one-story portico with brownstone steps and modified Tuscan columns frames recessed double doors.
The house was built in 1821 in downtown Savannah and sheltered the Gordon family for generations in this prosperous area. Juliette Gordon Low, born here in 1860, later founded Girl Scouts of the USA, the organization that made her internationally known.
The house was home to the Gordon family, a wealthy merchant family whose name remains part of Savannah's social fabric. Visitors encounter personal belongings and learn how this home and its residents shaped the local community.
The Birthplace is a historic house museum run by the Girl Scouts of the USA, with the 1956 Victorian parterre courtyard and garden by Clermont Huger Lee beside it. The main floor holds double parlors, a dining room, a drawing room and a central hall with curved stairs, while the 1886 third floor added five bedrooms and two bathrooms. The original stable, privy and three one-room slave houses stand on the grounds.
The Birthplace keeps its original stable, privy and three one-room slave houses on the grounds. In the 1930s the stable was turned into a commercial building with a large window facing Bull Street, and the apartments carved into the house during World War II were removed in the 1950s renovation.
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