It is located on Barnard Street in the northwestern civic block of Ellis Square, in Savannah's City Market.

[1] Owned by John S. Montmollin, between the mid-1850s and 1864[2] the building was used to trade African American slaves,[3][4] even after president Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

The building's third floor was owned by Alexander Bryan, who later took over the whole of the premises after Montmollin's death in June 1859.

[5] The building was liberated by U.S. troops in the course of General Sherman's "March to the Sea" in November and December 1864.

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