Located on East Broughton Street, it is the city's oldest operating hotel today, owned by Savannah's HLC Hotels, Inc., which also owns the city's Olde Harbour Inn, the Eliza Thompson House, the East Bay Inn, the Gastonian and the Kehoe House.

[3] Ralph Meldrim was proprietor of the Marshall House in 1857, and he erected a 12-foot-high, 120-foot in length iron veranda on the front of the second floor of the property.

[3] A decade later, the Marshall Hose Company, a volunteer fire department, was founded to protect the property, and others, in Savannah.

[3] Joel Chandler Harris, author of the Uncle Remus series, was a resident at the property around this time.

[3] An 1830 portrait of Mary Marshall, who died in 1877 at the age of 93, is hanging in the lobby after it was acquired from the estate of Jim Williams, the central figure in John Berendt's non-fiction novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.