Located in Savannah's Historic District, the Cotton Sail Hotel, a Hilton Hotels property,[1] occupies the West Bay Street elevation, above Factors Walk, while others solely utilize the former King Cotton warehouses on River Street.
As of February 2022, the businesses occupying the ground floor of the River Street elevation are Whispers, the Cotton Sail Hotel, River House Seafood and Fiddlers' Crab House.
Kevin Barry's Pub closed in 2020 after nearly forty years in business.
[2] The building was completed in 1854, attributed to Charles Sholl and Calvin Fay, for George Wymberly Jones and the Telfair estate.
[5] The hotel received the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation's Excellence in Rehabilitation award, the 2015 Historic Savannah Foundation's Preservation Award, and the Asian American Hotel Owners Association's IAHA Independent Hotel of the Year Award.