Pleasant Hill Historic District

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.