Sorrel Weed House

The Sorrel–Weed House stands near Madison Square, where Savannah’s nineteenth-century fortunes and losses are written into a single block. Built for merchant Francis Sorrel in 1841, it is a prominent example of Greek Revival architecture. Its history is also inseparable from slavery: Sorrel was a slaveholder, and enslaved people lived and worked on the property, including in the domestic and service spaces behind the main residence.

Two deaths have become the center of the house’s modern ghost-tour narrative. Matilda Sorrel died in March 1860 after sustaining a head injury in a fall. The surviving notice records her death but does not say she jumped from a balcony or explain it as a response to an affair. The popular story adds a second woman, Molly, and turns the two deaths into a dramatic sequence.