William Scarbrough House, Maritime museum in Savannah, United States

The William Scarbrough House is a two-story brick mansion with stuccoed walls and a low-pitch hip roof built in the Greek Revival style, now operating as a maritime museum in downtown Savannah. Inside, the rooms are divided into exhibition galleries displaying maritime artifacts and ship-related objects.

The house was designed in 1819 by British architect William Jay for William Scarbrough, who was the main backer of the SS Savannah, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic. After years as a private residence, the building later became a school and eventually a museum.

From 1873 to 1962 the city of Savannah owned the house and used it for the West Broad Street Colored School, an African American school. The building later passed to the Historic Savannah Foundation, then the Telfair Museums in 1990, and in 1994 to the Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum.

The house stands on the west side of Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard between Orange and West Bryant Streets, close to the roadway since the original front yard was lost to road widening. The entrance is a raised platform reached by stairs at its sides, above which a portico of four smooth Doric columns shelters the door. The museum's two acres of gardens follow a 19th-century parlor garden plan, with Clermont Huger Lee's 1974 layout for the Waring Memorial Garden, tenant courtyards and off-street parking.

President James Monroe visited the house shortly after it was completed in 1819 during an inspection tour of the Southern states. That early presidential visit makes it one of the few private homes in Savannah with a direct tie to a sitting US president.