{"nrhp_refnum":"74000658","name":"Macon Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Holt-Peeler-Snow House","Municipal Auditorium","First P"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Riverside Dr., Broadway, Elm, and I-75","address_restricted":false,"city":"Macon","county":"Bibb County","state":"GA","lat":32.83193748100007,"lon":-83.64944781499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-12-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Community Planning and Development","Politics/Government","Landscape Architecture","Transportation","Education","Social History","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 420-acre historic district in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, on the western bank of the Ocmulgee River. It covers the 1823 downtown grid plus the College Hill, Orange Terrace and Mercer University neighborhoods.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Macon preserves an almost intact picture of a 19th-century Southern town, shaped by river and railroad transportation. It has a large collection of Greek Revival and Victorian buildings, a progressive original town plan, and works by architects such as Elam Alexander, James B. Ayres and Neel Reid. It is also tied to early women's higher education through Wesleyan College and to Mercer University.","narrative":"Macon's historic district covers about 420 acres on the west bank of the Ocmulgee River in central Georgia. It includes the downtown grid laid out in 1823 by James Webb, with broad avenues, park-like medians, City Hall and the 1916 Terminal Station. North and west of downtown lies College Hill, the town's first residential area, which holds a large concentration of pre-Civil War Greek Revival mansions, many designed by Elam Alexander. Orange Terrace and the streets near Mercer University add late 19th-century Victorian houses and cottages, and Tattnall Square is a park designated in 1852. Mercer's Administration Building, built 1872-74, is a prominent landmark. The district was listed because Macon grew with river and railroad transport and then avoided rapid postwar development, so much of its 19th-century architecture and planning survives. It is also associated with Wesleyan College, chartered in 1836 to grant degrees to women, and with architects Ayres, Carter and Neel Reid.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Elam Alexander, Elias Carter (attributed), James B. Ayres, Neel Reid, Alfred Fulheimer (Terminal Station), Gurdon P. Randall (Mercer Administration Building), James Webb (1823 town plan), A. Sidney Brown (World War I monument), Robert Cushing (Wadley statue)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival and Victorian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked good and altered; the district includes occupied residential, commercial, government, educational and religious uses. The Terminal Station is described as empty in the 1974 text.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.286049-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/74000658.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000658/07e8423fa1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000658/07e8423fa1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bubba73","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_on_College_St.,_Macon_Historic_District,_Macon,_GA,_US_(15).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bubba73</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:House_on_College_St.,_Macon_Historic_District,_Macon,_GA,_US_(15).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207045","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macon_Historic_District_(Macon,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28153341"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/bibb-county/macon-historic-district-74000658/"}