Orleans Square

{{Short description|Public square in Savannah, Georgia}}

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| name = Orleans Square

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| namesake = Battle of New Orleans

| image = File:Orleans Square, Savannah.jpg

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| caption = The square in 2017, looking northwest

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| location = Savannah, Georgia, U.S.

| maint = City of Savannah

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| coordinates = {{coord|32.0763|-81.0954|display=inline,title}}

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| completion_date = {{start date and age|1815|p=yes}}

| north = Barnard Street

| south = Barnard Street

| west = West McDonough Street

| east = West McDonough Street

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Orleans Square is one of the 22 squares of Savannah, Georgia, United States. It is located in the middle row of the city's five rows of squares, on Barnard Street and West McDonough Street, and was laid out in 1815, shortly after the event it commemorates: General Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans that January. It is south of Telfair Square, west of Chippewa Square and north of Pulaski Square. The oldest building on the square is the John Ash House, at 114–116 West Hull Street, which dates to 1817.

In the center of the square, the German Memorial Fountain honors early German immigrants to Savannah.[http://www.savannahga.gov/DocumentCenter/View/4346/Tour-Guide-Manual?bidId= Tour Guide Manual] for licensed tour guides in the City of Savannah, accessed June 16, 2007. Installed in 1989, it commemorates the 250th anniversary of Georgia and of Savannah, as well as the 300th anniversary of the arrival in Philadelphia of thirteen Rhenish families.[http://www.savannahga.gov/cityweb/p&tweb.nsf/Monuments?OpenView City of Savannah's monuments page] This page links directly to numerous short entries, many accompanied by photographs, discussing a variety of monuments, memorials, etc., in the squares and elsewhere. Accessed June 16, 2007.

Between 1820 and 1916, the Bulloch–Habersham House stood in the square. It was designed by William Jay.{{Cite web |title=CONTENTdm |url=https://vault.georgiaarchives.org/digital/collection/vg2/id/3552/ |access-date=2023-07-06 |website=vault.georgiaarchives.org}} Its demolition was described by historian John D. Duncan as "one of the worst cases of metropolitan malfeasance to be documented in an era when the preservation movement was just beginning to gain attention."{{Cite web |last=Dawers |first=Bill |title=New book on architect William Jay has contemporary relevance |url=https://www.savannahnow.com/story/business/columns/2019/04/06/bill-dawers-new-book-on-architect-william-jay-has-contemporary-relevance/5515462007/ |access-date=2023-10-18 |website=Savannah Morning News |language=en-US}}