Macon Historic District (Boundary Increase)

This boundary increase covers roughly 103 acres around the existing Macon Historic District in Bibb County, Georgia, with 226 contributing and 49 noncontributing buildings. One section lies between Tattnall Square and Interstate 75, in a former middle-class neighborhood known as Huguenin Heights that grew from the 1880s into the 1910s and was later divided by the interstate. Houses there are mainly Italianate, Queen Anne and Folk Victorian, with Colonial Revival and Craftsman examples from the early twentieth century, and five brick Mercer University gymnasium and dormitory buildings. Smaller additions include houses on Orange Street and a brick church and hospital near Pine Street. The nomination argues that these areas share the architecture, landscaping, street grid and integrity of the original district, and that earlier boundaries missed them. The period of significance is 1823 to 1942. Federal reviewers returned the proposal in 1995 because it also sought to reduce the original district's boundaries.