{"nrhp_refnum":"71000246","name":"Anderson, Capt. R. J., House","other_names":["Miss Louise Anderson House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1730 West End Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Macon","county":"Bibb County","state":"GA","lat":32.831785987000046,"lon":-83.65221862699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-05-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A pre-Civil War cottage at 1730 West End Avenue in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, begun as a five-room frame house and later enlarged. The form dates it to about 1840, perhaps built by Emily P. Mallory, though the description section says the early 1850s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an example of pre-Civil War cottage architecture and is of interest to students of history and architecture. Enough of the original structure remains, despite later additions, to show a type prevalent before the Civil War. It also has ties to Artemus Goolsby, a secession convention delegate, and to Captain R. J. Anderson, a Bibb County tax receiver.","narrative":"This frame cottage at 1730 West End Avenue in Macon began as a small five-room house with steep, gabled roofs set on a raised floor to keep it dry. Title records suggest it was built about 1840, possibly by Emily P. Mallory, although the description places construction in the early 1850s. Later owners added two bedrooms, a catslide roof, decorative verge boards, cornice returns and jigsaw ornament on the veranda posts, giving it the look of a home rather than a plain cottage. Inside, an entry hall runs the length of the house, with simple fireplaces in an Ionic motif, hand-crafted hardware and high ceilings. Owners included Artemus Goolsby, who lived there during the Civil War and served as a delegate to Georgia's secession convention. In 1890 Julia Anderson, wife of Captain Robert Anderson, bought the property. He was Bibb County's tax receiver. The house was nominated as a surviving example of pre-Civil War cottage architecture.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Possibly built by Emily P. Mallory (per title records)","architectural_style":"Pre-Civil War cottage architecture","criteria":[],"status_note":"Private residence; the owner's daughter was reported to be living in it at the time of nomination.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.280758-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/71000246.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000246/23ee018558-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000246/23ee018558-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Timkemp","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capt._R._J._Anderson_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Timkemp</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capt._R._J._Anderson_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206980","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134086225"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/bibb-county/anderson-capt-r-j-house-71000246/"}