Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
A self-guided route you drive or walk, in your own car, on your own day.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil down Bull Street: the Bird Girl, the courthouse, Mercer House, the lawyer's office and Forsyth Park, with Bonaventure a short drive out.
All of them, free to read. The app sorts them as you go.
4 stops
Antony-22, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons01From the street
The scene
The federal courthouse on Wright Square stands in for the courthouse where Jim Williams is tried, by two guides' account. Only the outside is Savannah: the courtroom scenes were shot on a Warner Bros. soundstage. It is a working federal building, seen from the square.
125 Bull St, Savannah, GA
Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons02Admission
The scene
The house on Monterey Square is the story's centre, and the film shot here inside and out: the Christmas party was filmed in these rooms with the people Williams had invited himself rather than extras. The shooting itself was reconstructed in Hollywood. The house runs ticketed tours; the front is on the square for nothing. Glory also used it, as Colonel Shaw's house in Boston.
Not in the day because they are too far or there is nowhere to stop. Each has its own page.
The Week
Every stop is free to read here. The Week guides you through it on the day. On foot, it puts the closest stop next. It covers both routes.
$4.99 for 7 days · One payment, nothing renews.
Your seven days start in town, when you press Start the day on a paid route or arrive at one of its stops.
Get the Week in the app, $4.99Savannah, Georgia Lowcountry
The Midnight Walk
Sorted by distance on the day
It starts at Tomochichi Federal Building and Courthouse, 125 Bull St, Savannah, GA and ends at Forsyth Park, Bull St at W Gaston St, Savannah, GA. The stops are ordered so the route does not double back.
15 min walking between 4 stops, covering 0.8 miles. That is the measured travel alone. How long you stay at each stop is up to you.
Not all of them are walk-ups. Mercer Williams House needs a ticket. The rest are public and free to stand at.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, across 4 locations in and around Savannah.
429 Bull St, Savannah, GA
Jennifer Morrow, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons03From the street
The scene
The Armstrong House plays the office of Sonny Seiler, Williams's lawyer, by three guides' account. Williams himself bought and restored it. It is offices now and private: look from the pavement.
447 Bull St, Savannah, GA
Jennifer Morrow, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons04The scene
The park at the end of Bull Street, where Minerva sits on a bench and the man walks a dog that is not there.
The film commission credits Forsyth Park to the film. The guides put Minerva on one of its benches and the man walking his invisible dog here. The fountain is the north end, where Bull Street arrives.
Bull St at W Gaston St, Savannah, GA