The Owens-Thomas House, located on Oglethorpe Square in Savannah, Georgia, began as a private residence built by architect William Jay, for Richard Richardson. Today the house is a museum and one of the finest examples of Regency style architecture to be found. Since acquiring the property in 1951, the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences has spent a great deal of time and money conducting architectural research, preserving, and conserving the house, furnishings, and grounds. As part of their ongoing research they have, over the years, funded archaeological investigations on the site in order to better understand and restore the site to its original state.
As a part of that ongoing investigation, work was begun in the summer of 1997 by Gail Whalen and Sandra Weidlich. The research goals were formulated to answer specific questions about the physical landscape and construction of the house. In this instance, archaeology would be used to find answers that the historic record did not provide—the answers lay underground.
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