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Dr. Corson House
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Exterior onlyPrivate residence, please view from the sidewalk only. Don't knock or enter.
An 1857 Jones Street house where surgeon Eugene Corson ran one of the region's earliest private X-ray labs. Later tenants reported a tall figure, and passersby describe a figure in the upper windows.
- Address
- E Jones St, Savannah, GA 31401 (exact number not published by source)
- Hours
- Check the official website or call ahead for current hours.
- Admission
- Check the official website.
- Access
- exterior only (private residence)
The real history
About the place
This Jones Street house was built in 1857, when Jones Street was becoming one of Savannah's most desirable addresses. It was commissioned by Noah Barnum Knapp. According to 6th Sense World, historical records show that enslaved people lived and worked here, probably housed in the carriage house behind the main residence under the harsh conditions typical of the time.
In the early 1900s the house was bought by Dr. Eugene Rollin Corson, a respected Savannah surgeon and former president of the Georgia Medical Society. Corson was an early X-ray pioneer, publishing on the subject in 1897, and he set up one of the region's earliest private X-ray laboratories here. Nobody yet understood the long-term dangers of radiation. By the mid-20th century the house belonged to Dean Owens, a musician, who divided parts of it into apartments.
It is a private residence and its exact street number isn't published by the source, so please view it only from the sidewalk.
Private residence, please view from the sidewalk only. Don't knock or enter.
Local legend
The Ghost Story
Told here as local lore, the way guides, books and visitors tell it. These are legends, not established fact.
The Sixth Sense Savannah Ghost Tour stops here. Its telling begins with the apartments of the mid-20th century. Tenants under Dean Owens came and went unusually fast, and many of them described the same presence in the house: a tall, composed figure seen inside the rooms.
The reports, the tour company says, have stayed remarkably consistent. Passersby describe a figure now and then in the upper-floor windows, a noticeable change in the atmosphere near the lower part of the house, and a feeling of being watched when walking past at night. The company presents the house as a place that keeps raising questions rather than answering them.
Tips
- This is viewed from the street: please respect the residents and the property.
- Featured on 2 ghost tours; see the links below.
