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Macon Historic District (Macon, Georgia)
The Macon Historic District is a historic district in Macon, Georgia that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 and was expanded in 1995. The original listing covered and included 1,050 contributing resources; the increase added and 157 contributing resources (of which 10 acres and 10 contributing buildings were already listed on the National Register in the Macon Railroad Industrial District). Macon was founded in 1823 in Bibb County on the bank of the Ocmulgee River. Many buildings reflect the 19th-century Greek Revival and Victorian styles of architecture. The district has commercial, government, educational, and residential buildings. The majority of their architectural features have been preserved. A total of 1047 buildings, two structures, and one object contribute to the Macon Historical District. Several of the contributing properties are separately listed on the NRHP. History What is now downtown is part of the original 1823 plan of Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmichael House (Macon, Georgia)
The Carmichael House, known also as Raines-Carmichael House, Raines-Miller-Carmichael House or Cadwalader Raines House, is a Greek Revival mansion at 1183 Georgia Avenue in Macon, Georgia, United States. Built in 1848, the house is a nationally significant example of Greek Revival architecture, built and designed by local master builder Elam Alexander. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1973. Description and history The Carmichael House is located in central Macon, at the northeast corner of Georgia Avenue and College Street. It is a two-story wood frame structure, laid out in the form of a Greek cross, with Ionic-columned porches between the arms of the cross, and a large octagonal cupola rising above the center. The corners of the cross arms have broad pilasters, rising to a full entablature and a dentillated cornice, with fully pedimented gable ends. The central feature of the interior is a free-standing spiral staircase that rises all the way to the cupola, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cannonball House (Macon, Georgia)
The Cannonball House is a historically significant Greek revival house located at 856 Mulberry Street in Macon, Georgia, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It earned its name after sustaining damage from a Union Army During the American Civil War, the Union Army, also known as the Federal Army and the Northern Army, referring to the United States Army, was the land force that fought to preserve the Union (American Civil War), Union of the collective U.S. st ... cannonball strike on July 30, 1864, in the American Civil War. A bronze cannon forged at the Macon Arsenal in 1864 is set in the front yard. The Cannonball House was constructed in 1853 as a planter's townhouse for Judge Asa Holt. It is also known as the Home of Judge Ada Holt or the Mansion of the Old South. The house is furnished in the period from 1853 to 1870. It contains the recreated meeting rooms of the Alpha Delta Pi, Adelphean (ΑΔΠ) and Phi Mu, Philomathean (Φ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Lanier Cottage
The Sidney Lanier Cottage is a historic cottage on High Street in Macon, Georgia, that was the birthplace of poet, musician, and soldier Sidney Lanier. Sidney Lanier Cottage was purchased by the Middle Georgia Historical Society in 1973, and opened to the public in 1975. Until 2021, the Sidney Lanier Cottage served as a museum, event space, and home of the Lanier Center for Literary Arts. Though now a private residence, it is still occasionally used for events by the Historic Macon Foundation. History Sidney Lanier (1842-1881) was born in the High Street home of his grandfather, Sterling Lanier. Lanier is best known for his regional poems, including ''The Marshes of Glynn'', ''The Song of the Chattahoochee'', and ''Sunrise''.Epting, Chris. ''The Birthplace Book: A Guide to Birth Sites of Famous People, Places, & Things''. Stackpole Books, 2009: 104. Lanier's parents, Sterling Robert Sampson Lanier and Mary Jane Anderson Lanier, were living in nearby Griffin, Georgia, but Mary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holt–Peeler–Snow House
The Thaddeus Goode Holt Peeler House, also known as the Holt–Peeler–Snow House, is a historic residence in Macon, Georgia, located at 1129 Georgia Avenue. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 21, 1971. The three-story house is an "exceptional example of Greek Revival architecture". It is one of few "old residences in the state having the horseshoe entrance steps with wrought iron railings." It was built about 1840 for Judge Thaddeus Goode Holt, following a design by Elam Alexander. It was his home and later home of Thaddeus Goode Holt Jr., a Confederate officer. Architecture-wise, it has a raised main floor and a portico with Doric columns. It was "originally prostyle with six fluted wood columns, continuous guttae on the architrave, applied wreaths on the frieze, and a sloping wood parapet or coaming with acroteria An acroterion, acroterium, or akroteria is an architectural ornament placed on a flat pedestal called the ''acroter'' or p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatcher-Groover-Schwartz House
The Hatcher-Groover-Schwartz House is a historic residence in Macon, Georgia, that was built in 1880. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It is located at 1144-1146 on Georgia Avenue, in the historic center of Macon. It was deemed a "superb example" of Second Empire architecture, and the only example in Macon. with The house was built by Marshall James Hatcher in 1880. In 1935, it was sold by the descendants of Hatcher to Denmark Groover and his wife, who sold it in their turn in 1967 to Bert Schwartz and his wife. See also *National Register of Historic Places listings in Bibb County, Georgia This is a list of properties and districts in Bibb County, Georgia that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Current listings See also ... References {{reflist Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) Hous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Opera House (Macon, Georgia)
The Grand Opera House, often called The Grand and originally known as the Academy of Music, is a historic opera house located in Macon, Georgia, United States. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, it is now the performing arts center of Mercer University. History The Academy of Music was constructed in 1884 with the largest stage in the southeastern United States and seating for 2,418, almost one-fifth of Macon's population at the time. The building was renovated in 1905; the present seven-story facade was added and the building reopened as the Grand Opera House. The Grand has had numerous historic uses; live horses and chariots appeared in a 1908 production of '' Ben-Hur'' and during World War I, actor Charlie Chaplin led the John Philip Sousa band for a fundraising effort. The theater has also hosted, among others, Sarah Bernhardt, Will Rogers, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Bob Hope, the Allman Brothers Band, and Ray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodall House (Macon, Georgia)
The Goodall House (also known as George D. Collins House) was a historic house located at 618 Orange Street in Macon, Georgia. It was built in 1859 with Italianate exterior and ornate interior. As of 1971, it had been very little altered and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. with Despite opposition from local preservationists, the house was demolished in 1975 and replaced with an office building. Description and history It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ... on May 27, 1971. It was deemed significant as a "splendid example of substantial homes built 'on the Hill' as Macon's residential section moved to the higher elevation" from the city's business center. While the house was the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Presbyterian Church (Macon, Georgia)
First Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church in Macon, GA. History The place was frequently visited by Mr. Joseph C. Stiles, a licentiate and Evangelist of Hopewell Presbytery, who took it in as a part of his field. As the fruit of his ministry a church was organized June 18, 1826, of twenty five members, by Rev. Benjamin Gildersleeve, First Presbyterian Church was born on June 18, 1826, just three years after the city of Macon was chartered. The church continued to be a part of the Evangelistic field of Mr. Stiles, till 1828, when Rev. James C. Patterson became the regular supply for two years till the Fall of 1830. During Mr. Patterson's ministry the first building, a wooden structure, was erected on Fourth street. This building was turned over to the Baptists, who removed and enlarged it; and is now the Second Baptist church. The Rev. Edwin Holt was the first regular pastor, installed November 20, 1831, and served the church from 1831 to 1834, when the relation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domingos House
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