{"nrhp_refnum":"82002385","name":"Cherokee Heights District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Pio Nono, Napier, Inverness, and Suwanee Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Macon","county":"Bibb County","state":"GA","lat":32.838301089000055,"lon":-83.66596260020373,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-07-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A planned residential suburban district in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, laid out by the Vineville Improvement Company in 1909-1911, with an annex added in 1923. It contains detached single-family houses built from about 1909 into the 1940s.","why_significant":"The district is presented as an excellent intact example of an early 20th century planned suburb reflecting local and national trends in suburban development, and is believed to be the first suburban development of its kind in Macon. It is also significant for its collection of single-family houses, some designed by noted Macon and Georgia architects, and for its landscape design.","narrative":"Cherokee Heights is a planned suburb in western Macon, Georgia, developed by the Vineville Improvement Company in 1909-1911, with an annex laid out in 1923. It sits on a low plateau and has an irregular gridiron of streets, small rectangular lots, and larger houses on combined lots at its center. Homes date from about 1909 into the 1940s and range from modest suburban cottages to large mansions. Styles include Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival and Craftsman/Bungalow, and several Bungalow examples are described as among the finest in Macon. Architects such as Neel Reid, W. Elliot Dunwody Jr. and Alexander Blair Jr. contributed designs. Informal landscaping, tree-shaded streets, sidewalks and terraced lots give the area a cohesive character. The district was recognized for community planning, architecture and landscape architecture, as an intact example of early twentieth century suburban development and believed to be the first of its kind in the city. Later ranch houses in the annex are treated as non-historic.","period_of_significance":"1909-11, 1923","architect_builder":"Vineville Improvement Company (developer); architects named in the text include Neel Reid, W. Elliot Dunwody Jr., and Alexander Blair Jr.","architectural_style":"Early 20th century revival and Craftsman/Bungalow styles, including Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival and Mission","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied, mainly private residences, with some commercial, religious and transportation uses; condition is rated good to fair and the district is altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.24433-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/82002385.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206994","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141704171"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/bibb-county/cherokee-heights-district-82002385/"}