Vineville Historic District

Vineville is a residential suburb of about 525 acres and more than 700 properties on a low plateau northwest of downtown Macon, Georgia. It began in the 1830s as a community of large plantation estates along the Forsyth Road, taking its name traditionally from the vineyards of Judge Christopher Strong. Over the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the estates were subdivided into a compact suburb of long, narrow lots laid out in a rough grid on either side of Vineville Avenue. Houses range from mansions to modest cottages and include Plantation Plain and Federal examples as well as Victorian, Neoclassical, Bungalow and period revival styles. Some were designed by notable Georgia architects, including Neel Reid. Informally landscaped yards and tree-lined streets give the area a park-like character. The district was listed for its architecture, landscape architecture, community planning and local history, and for its role as home to many prominent Macon and Georgia figures. Few intrusions interrupt its continuity.