{"nrhp_refnum":"79000698","name":"Collins-Odom-Strickland House","other_names":["Friendship House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1495 2nd St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Macon","county":"Bibb County","state":"GA","lat":32.823667501000045,"lon":-83.63958984799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-01-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story Victorian cottage at 1495 Second Street in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, built around 1880 by an unknown architect, later known as Friendship House.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it primarily architecturally significant as an exceptionally good example of picturesque carpenter Victorian architecture, with intact hand-sawn ornament. A 1970 Macon survey by Carl Feiss and Russell Wright named it among the finest Macon cottages. It is also historically significant as a modest home for railroad-connected middle-class families.","narrative":"Built around 1880 at 1495 Second Street in Macon, this one-story Victorian cottage is noted for its asymmetrical massing, multiple gables, angled veranda and bay window. Elaborate hand-sawn ornament decorates the gables, porch columns, bay window and cornice, and the work remains intact. The house is framed in long leaf pine, with flush narrow weatherboards, ceilings about fifteen feet high and original fireplaces. A 1970 architectural survey of Macon by Carl Feiss and Russell Wright singled it out as one of the finest examples of the city's cottage styles. Its history is tied to the railroads: Andrew J. Collins, a railroad conductor, bought the lot in 1879, and later owners and tenants included yard workers, a locomotive engineer and clerks of railway-related firms. It illustrates the kind of affordable housing used by middle-class railroad employees near their work. Since 1973 it has operated as Friendship House, a community center for social rehabilitation programs.","period_of_significance":"c. 1880","architect_builder":"Architect unknown","architectural_style":"Victorian cottage, carpenter Victorian (picturesque carpenter architecture)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in excellent condition, occupied, and in educational use; it has served since 1973 as a community center (Friendship House) for a mental health association that has owned it since 1976.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.057879-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/79000698.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000698/2c60ef5dd0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000698/2c60ef5dd0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Blastoids","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Collins-Odom-Strickland_House_2.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Blastoids</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:Collins-Odom-Strickland_House_2.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"93000587","name":"Tindall Heights Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/tindall-heights-historic-district-93000587/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206998","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collins-Odom-Strickland_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108178824"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/bibb-county/collins-odom-strickland-house-79000698/"}