Orleans Square

Orleans Square, featuring the stately, glowering Harper Fowlkes House, was described by Harry Hervey in his scandalous 1939 tell-all novel, "The Damned Don't Cry", as 'an arid, little square, in a city where most of its squares are exuberantly green'.

Harper Fowlkes House, Orleans Square, Savannah Georgia

It is certainly not arid anymore. Old oaks, low limbed and dripping with Spanish Moss, lush ground foliage and a gorgeous fountain, made and unveiled in 1989 to commemorate Savannah's German immigrants, make this square a true, hidden gem in The Historic District.

Fountain in Orleans Square, Savannah Georgia

It's on Barnard Street between Hull and Perry. The Savannah Civic Center can be seen to the west.

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