Andrew Low House

Cotton merchant Andrew Low built this Italianate mansion on Lafayette Square in 1848; his daughter-in-law Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts, lived here for years and died in an upstairs bedroom in 1927. Staff and visitors have reported the scent of perfume with no source nearby and an older woman seen resting on the bed in that room, which many take to be Juliette. Andrew Low's own ghost is said to sit in a parlor rocking chair that has been seen rocking on its own, while the footsteps of his butler, Tom, are heard on the stairs and his figure has been seen standing at the top of them. The Colonial Dames of Georgia bought the home from the estate in 1928, opened it as a house museum in 1952, and still operate it as their headquarters today.