Conrad Aiken, a poet of international reputation, retired to Savannah -the city of his birth- in 1962. He lived his retirement years at 230 E. Oglethorpe Ave., a town house in the first restores group of four buildings- Marshal Row, ca. 1851 - that began the city’s historical restoration efforts in the 1960s. The house next door (No. 228) is where Aiken was born in 1889, and where he lived for the first 11 years of his life. As it turned out, he also lived 11 years at No. 230; he died in 1973 while residing there. Aiken had been named Poetry Consultant of the Library of Congress in 1950-52, a position that referred to today as Poet Laureate of the United States. He was also the first Georgia-born author to win the Pulitzer Prize.