Phoebe Pember House offers accommodations and retreat space in beautiful and sacred surroundings. Enjoy our 200 year-old Federal style Single House and carriage houses, relax on our piazzas that overlook private walled gardens, or retreat to the quiet of one of our private gardens. Architecturally and historically distinctive, this sacred space has been beautifully restored and offers some of the finest examples of hand-carved Adamesque gouge-work in the city. It is the birthplace of Phoebe Pember, writer and maverick spirit. Acclaimed by historian Shelby Foote, she is a Civil War heroine, author of A Southern Woman's ...