Owens-Thomas Slave Quarters - 3D Flythrough Tour

In this installment of 3D models for NCPTT's Documentation of Slave Cabin and Tenant Farming Houses Project, we visited Owens-Thomas Slave Quarters in Savannah, GA. Now owned by the Telfair Museum, the oldest public art museum in the South, the Owens-Thomas House sits in the Historic District of Savannah, Georgia. Built for slave trader, merchant, and banker Richard Richardson, the home was initially referred to as the Richardson House. Between 1824 and 1830, the home served as a boarding house operated by Mary Maxwell until it was auctioned off to attorney George Welshman Owens. The Owens Home remained in the family until 1951 when the when ownership was bequeathed to the Telfair Academy of the Arts and Science by the Owens’ granddaughter, Margaret Gray-Thomas, upon her death. By 1954, the historic home was transformed in to a museum. The slave quarters on the plantation are noted at being the oldest, best preserved urban slave quarters that still exist in the United States and the only intact slave quarters open to the public in the city of Savannah. The slave quarters display a prominent hint blue color which is painted such as the belief within the enslaved community was that the color warded off evil spirits. Records show that Owens owned nearly 400 or more enslaved people at various plantation whereas 1840 records show fourteen located at this plantation. Those persons recorded included two sick nurses, a cook, and others; mostly children. Designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1976, the plantation also consists of an original carriage house and parterre garden. NCPTT laser scanned this building using the Leica Geosystems RTC360 Laser Scanner to produce this video 3D flythrough model of the building's digital point cloud. This video is in collaboration with Telfair Museum. Website - https://www.telfair.org/ Facebook -   / telfairmuseums   Twitter - https://x.com/TelfairMuseums Instagram -   / telfairmuseums