{"nrhp_refnum":"06000986","name":"Macon Railway and Light Company Substation","other_names":["North Macon Substation"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1015 Riverside Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Macon","county":"Bibb County","state":"GA","lat":32.84503025400005,"lon":-83.63135614499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-11-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Industry","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, L-shaped brick electrical substation built in 1915 at 1015 Riverside Drive in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, on a bluff above the Ocmulgee River beside Rose Hill Cemetery. It was added to an existing Macon Railway streetcar complex.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a good example of an early 20th-century substation whose plain, commercial-looking exterior hid advanced electrical equipment. It is also significant in transportation and industry as a key part of the system that moved Macon beyond mule-drawn streetcars and supplied electricity and telephone service.","narrative":"Built in 1915 on a bluff above the Ocmulgee River north of downtown Macon, this two-story, L-shaped brick building was designed to house electrical equipment for the Macon Railway & Light Company. It reduced high-voltage power from the Lloyd Shoals hydroelectric plant to 600 volts and converted it to direct current for the city's streetcars, and later for telephone and electrical service. Common-bond brick walls, pilasters framing each window, corbelled arches and a stepped parapet give it the look of a downtown commercial building rather than a power facility. It was listed for its architecture as a good example of an early 20th-century substation, and for its role in transportation and industry, as part of a regional power distribution system. Georgia Power took over the operation after a 1928 consolidation, and the period of significance ends in 1955. Since the late 1980s the building has served as a restaurant, with a kitchen, bar, dining room and loft added inside, and it was rehabilitated in 2005.","period_of_significance":"1915-1955","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other: early 20th-century industrial building","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Used as a restaurant since the late 1980s; rehabilitated for continued restaurant use in 2005, with the work approved by the National Park Service on September 28, 2005.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.600176-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/06000986.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"73000611","name":"Rose Hill Cemetery","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/rose-hill-cemetery-73000611/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207051","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134086153"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/bibb-county/macon-railway-and-light-company-substation-06000986/"}