Mercer House
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The Mercer House (now called the Mercer-Williams House Museum) is located at 429 Bull Street and stands at the west end of Monterey Square, in Savannah, Georgia.
It was designed by New York architect John S. Norris for General Hugh W. Mercer, great-grandfather of Johnny Mercer, the songwriter. Construction of the house began in 1860, was interrupted by the American Civil War and finally completed around 1868 by the new owner, John Wilder. In 1969, Jim Williams, one of Savannah’s earliest and most dedicated private restorationists, bought the house after a decade of vacancy and restored it.
Mercer House was also the scene of the shooting death of Williams' assistant, Danny Hansford, a story that is retold in the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt.
The house is currently owned by Dorothy Kingery and is now open to the public.
