{"nrhp_refnum":"72000368","name":"Monroe Street Apartments","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"641-661 Monroe St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Macon","county":"Bibb County","state":"GA","lat":32.83846367700005,"lon":-83.64344532799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-03-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A row of brick tenement apartments at 641-661 Monroe Street in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, dating from about the 1850s (supporting letters say about 1860).","why_significant":"The nomination argues the row is a surviving example of Macon's 'common run' shelters that housed workers, servants and bondsmen behind upper-class homes. Its location, plan and masonry details record a time when pride in construction showed even in modest buildings. Undocumented reports say it served as a Confederate hospital late in the Civil War.","narrative":"Monroe Street Apartments is a row of brick tenement dwellings at 641-661 Monroe Street in Macon, built in the mid-19th century. Each unit originally had three long rooms, each with its own fireplace, and the buildings were designed mainly as sleeping quarters. Thick masonry walls, 12½ inches in solid common or header bond, rise through the roof as fire-stop parapets. Jack arch lintels, corbelled cornices and chimneys, and rough-cut pine timbers survive, though the kitchens have been modified. The row was part of Macon's modest housing for workers, servants and bondsmen, located behind the homes of the upper class. Supporting letters credit John Hollingsworth with building it about 1860 and note that Black tenants lived there. Undocumented reports suggest use as a Confederate hospital. The row was listed for its architecture and as a record of everyday construction of the period, and it has been occupied as tenements for many years.","period_of_significance":"c. 1850's","architect_builder":"John Hollingsworth (builder, per a supporting letter citing courthouse records, c. 1860)","architectural_style":"English basic character with Southern modifications such as unusually large windows and doors","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied as tenements for many years; condition marked as altered, with kitchens modified with electrical equipment.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.122546-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/72000368.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000368/3fc91a1f15-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000368/3fc91a1f15-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Blastoids","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monroe_Street_Apartments.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Blastoids</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monroe_Street_Apartments.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"74000658","name":"Macon Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/macon-historic-district-74000658/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207061","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134127231"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/bibb-county/monroe-street-apartments-72000368/"}