{"nrhp_refnum":"86001130","name":"Pleasant Hill Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Sheridan Ave. and Schofield St., Madison, Jefferson and Ferguson, and Galliard Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Macon","county":"Bibb County","state":"GA","lat":32.84516726350006,"lon":-83.64485929056936,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-05-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Black","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A discontiguous historic residential district of about 205 acres in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, on two facing hillsides now divided by Interstate 75. It holds houses from the 1870s to the 1930s and is described as Macon's major historic black community.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant for black history, community planning and development, and architecture. It documents the residential, commercial and institutional life of Macon's black community from the late 19th to early 20th century, and shows how black neighborhoods were placed on hard-to-build land. It also holds a wide range of vernacular house types built partly by local black builders.","narrative":"Pleasant Hill is a dense late 19th- and early 20th-century neighborhood in Macon, Georgia, spread across two hillsides that Interstate 75 has divided since the 1960s. Its modest, mostly one-story wooden houses include shotguns, saddlebags, L-shaped cottages and pyramidal-roof cottages, with porch trim in Victorian, Neoclassical and Craftsman styles. A few corner stores, a Masonic Lodge, St. Peter Claver Church and School, and Linwood Cemetery are scattered among them. The neighborhood began in the 1870s, when servants of wealthy families on nearby College Avenue settled here, and grew quickly in the 1890s and 1910s. Residents ranged from doctors, lawyers and educators to unskilled laborers, and many owned or built their own homes. The district was listed for its role in black history, for a land-use pattern that placed black neighborhoods on overlooked, hilly ground, and for its varied vernacular architecture, including work by local black builders and craftsmen.","period_of_significance":"1870s - 1936","architect_builder":"Multiple; local black builders named include G. Moughon, John Young, L.J. May and Zack Williams","architectural_style":"Vernacular residential types (shotgun, saddlebag, L-shaped cottage, pyramidal-roof square plan) with Victorian, Neoclassical/Colonial Revival and Craftsman detailing","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Condition rated fair and altered; the district is occupied and mostly in private residential, commercial and educational use. Linwood Cemetery is overgrown, and residents are working to restore it.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.288775-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/86001130.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001130/2b9d7dae7a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001130/2b9d7dae7a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Blastoids","credit_html":"Blastoids, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Business_@_2189_3rd_Avenue.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/93207079","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasant_Hill_Historic_District_(Macon,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49544132"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/bibb-county/pleasant-hill-historic-district-86001130/"}