{"nrhp_refnum":"71000264","name":"Napier, Leroy, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2215 Napier Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Macon","county":"Bibb County","state":"GA","lat":32.83830966800008,"lon":-83.65497590099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-05-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large columned Greek Revival house at 2215 Napier Avenue in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, built in 1842 by Colonel Leroy Napier, Sr. and believed to have been designed by Elias Carter.","why_significant":"The house is presented as an outstanding Elias Carter house of solid Greek Revival architecture, nearly identical to the one built by Napier's brother Skelton on Rogers Avenue. It is also tied to Colonel Napier, who made the largest individual investment in the Confederate Loan Fund in 1861, and to his son F. Leroy Napier, a Confederate artillery captain.","narrative":"This Greek Revival house at 2215 Napier Avenue in Macon was built in 1842 by Colonel Leroy Napier, Sr., and is believed to have been designed by Elias Carter. It originally stood on a 125-acre estate with terraced gardens and a deer park, and had 26 rooms and 19 marble steps leading to the entrance porch. It was later moved to a nearby, more restricted site so Lanier Senior High School could be built on the original grounds. Its most prominent feature is a two-story front porch running the full width of the house, with four fluted Greek Doric columns and two square corner columns. The frieze carries inverted laurel wreaths. Its design is almost identical to the house built by Napier's brother Skelton on Rogers Avenue. Colonel Napier subscribed $58,000 in Confederate bonds in 1861, and his son F. Leroy Napier commanded the Napier Artillery. The interior now holds several rented apartments.","period_of_significance":"1842","architect_builder":"Built by Colonel Leroy Napier, Sr.; believed designed by Elias Carter","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as fair. The interior was altered into several rented apartments, and the house was restored from disrepair by a later owner. It was moved to a site adjacent to the original to make way for Lanier Senior High School.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.060519-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/71000264.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207069","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/bibb-county/napier-leroy-house-71000264/"}