Cherokee Heights District

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.