Granite Hall

{{Short description|Historic house in Savannah, Georgia}} {{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox building | name = Granite Hall | native_name = | former_names = Fred Hull House | logo = | logo_size = | logo_alt = | logo_caption = | image = File:126_East_Gaston_Street.jpg | caption = The building in 2021 | pushpin_map = | building_type = | architectural_style = | structural_system = | cost = | location = Savannah, Georgia, U.S. | address = 126 East Gaston Street | client = | owner = Savannah College of Art and Design (since 2006) | current_tenants = | landlord = | coordinates = {{coord|32.0699124174|-81.0931214|display=inline,title}} | construction_start_date = | completion_date = {{Start date and age|1881|p=yes}} | inauguration_date = | demolished_date = | destruction_date = | height = | diameter = | other_dimensions = | floor_count = 3 | floor_area = | architect = John M. Williams | structural_engineer = | main_contractor = | services_engineer = | civil_engineer = | other_designers = | quantity_surveyor = | awards = | references = }}

'''Granite Hall''' is an Italianate mansion in Savannah, Georgia, United States. It is located on East Gaston Street, just to the northeast of Forsyth Park.<ref name=mpc>[https://www.thempc.org/docs/lit/hist/maps/supplement.pdf Historic Building Map: Savannah Historic District] – Historic Preservation Department of the Chatham County-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission (November 17, 2011)</ref> It is part of the Savannah Historic District,<ref name=mpc/> and was built in 1881 for Fred Hull. In a survey for Historic Savannah Foundation, Mary Lane Morrison found the building to be of significant status.<ref>''Historic Savannah: Survey of Significant Buildings in the Historic and Victorian Districts of Savannah, Georgia'', Mary Lane Morrison (1979)</ref>

The building was used as the venue for the Married Woman's Card Club visited by John Cusack's character, John Kelso, in the 1997 movie ''Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil''. Jim Williams, upon whom both the movie and the book on which it was based was centered, purchased the house in the mid-1980s and began an extensive restoration program on it; he died before it was completed, however.<ref name=scad/> Around that time, it was the Granite Steps guest house, so named for its double-entry staircase that ascends from the street.<ref>''The Carolinas & the Georgia Coast'', Norman Renouf and Kathy Renouf (1999) {{isbn|9781556508547}}</ref>

Since 2006, the property has been owned by the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).<ref name=scad>[https://www.scad.edu/life/buildings-and-facilities/granite-hall Granite Hall] – SCAD.edu</ref>

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Granite Hall}} Category:Houses in Savannah, Georgia Category:Houses completed in 1881 Category:Savannah College of Art and Design buildings and structures Category:Savannah Historic District