Fall Luncheon at the Conrad Aiken House

THOUGH BUILT for Oscar Dibble in 1855, this handsome house is better known as Conrad Aiken’s birthplace. It is a typical antebellum Savannah town house, two stories over a raised basement with a high stoop and balcony embellished with wrought- and cast-iron balustrades and brackets. A graceful curving staircase in the large entrance hall belies the mournful heritage of the property: at age eleven, Aiken found the bodies of his parents, killed by his father in a murder-suicide. Returning to the city later in life, he moved into the house next door (also called the Conrad Aiken House) and wrote his autobiographical Ushant, filled with haunting passages of Savannah.