Two 1868 mansions, seventeen rooms, every fireplace lit by request — the inn that earns its repeat anniversary bookings.
The Gastonian occupies two adjoining Italianate mansions built in 1868, joined by a wrought-iron walkway and arranged around a hidden courtyard garden. The address — 220 East Gaston Street — sits on the most prized residential street in the Historic District, equidistant between Forsyth Park's fountains to the south and the chain of antebellum squares to the north. Across seventeen rooms, every single one has a working wood-burning or gas fireplace; the housekeeping staff lay the kindling on request, which is the small ritual that converts a stay into a memory. This is the only Savannah inn where that promise is kept room-for-room rather than suite-only.
A full Southern breakfast — cheese grits, country ham, biscuits, fresh fruit — is served each morning either in the formal dining room or out on the verandah overlooking the garden. Afternoon tea arrives at four, and complimentary wine and cordials appear in the parlour as the light fades. Free off-street parking, a near-impossible amenity in the Historic District, is included; the courtyard garden, which most guidebooks miss entirely, is the property's hidden highlight — a green-shaded pocket with iron benches and a fountain that almost no one outside the inn ever sees. The Gastonian holds an AAA Four Diamond rating and has held it longer than any other small inn in Savannah.
Gaston Street's position is the quiet argument for choosing here over a larger hotel. Forsyth Park is a two-minute stroll; the Mansion on Forsyth Park sits one block away if you want to walk over for the bar; River Street and the waterfront are a flat ten-minute walk north through the squares. For travellers who want bed-and-breakfast intimacy — being known by name, hearing the front door unlocked for them after dinner, returning each evening to a fire already laid — rather than the anonymity of a 200-room hotel, the Gastonian is the right choice in Savannah. The seventeen-room scale is the entire product, and it is the reason the inn fills the same week, the same month, year after year.
The Gastonian is Savannah's anniversary hotel. The fireplaces are the headline; the courtyard garden, the four-poster beds, the cordials in the parlour and the walked-back-from-dinner-arm-in-arm geography of Gaston Street are the supporting cast. Couples mark milestones here and come back for the next one. See all anniversary hotels →
For honeymooners who want a Southern inn rather than a Southern hotel, the Gastonian delivers the format perfectly — fireplace, claw-foot tub, breakfast on the verandah, an afternoon spent doing nothing in the courtyard garden. The walk to Forsyth Park at sunset is the loveliest hotel-to-park stroll in Savannah. See all honeymoon hotels →
The seventeen-room scale, the communal breakfast table, the parlour cordials and the courtyard garden make the Gastonian a rare find for the solo traveller — somewhere a single guest is welcomed into the rhythm of the house rather than processed through a lobby. Read in the garden, walk Forsyth Park, dine alone without feeling alone.
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