Bobby Jones Performing Arts Center 1389 Jefferson Street Macon Ga
Macon's Fading 5 raises awareness of significant places that are threatened by neglect or possible demolition.
Since the launch of Macon's Fading Five in 2015, Celebrated Macon has put 17 backdrop on the list. By creating a strategic preservation programme for each of the listed backdrop, 11 of them have been saved and protected, while just one Fading Five property has been lost. A property remains on the listing until it is no longer nether threat or the Historic Macon Preservation Committee determines that it has been accordingly preserved.
Know an endangered property that should be on the 2022 Macon's Fading 5? Nominate a identify today past completing the form below or e-mail info@historicmacon.org with your nomination.
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2021 FADING V LIST
WILLINGHAM-MCBREARTY Firm
The Willingham-McBrearty House has a Classical Revival manner, evident in the full-width front porch with full-height Corinthian columns. It is located on a high-visibility street and is most other historic, high-profile homes and buildings, including the 1842 Inn and the McDuffie Center for Strings.
Calder Willingham built the house about 1904 when he married Eunice Williams. This was their home. Willingham was president of the Willingham Cotton Manufacturing plant and, later on, the Willingham Loan & Trust Co. The belongings remained in the Willingham family until about 1942.
The adjacent owner of note was John F. McBrearty, who bought the habitation in 1945. Members of the McBrearty family owned the house until 2005, when it went through a menstruum of short-term owners before Breakthrough Dynamics, a business direction consulting company on 2d Street, bought it in 2011.
Some work has been done on the abode in contempo years, including replacement of the monumental front columns. The business firm has sat vacant, though, and been severely underutilized.
Among the repairs it needs are to the gutter arrangement, which has led to erosion of the roof cornice.
The principal threat facing this building is long-term vacancy and the maintenance issues associated with that. The platonic solution would be its purchase as a single-family dwelling house, with maintenance commensurate to that of side by side backdrop.
The First National Bank and Trust Co., 2791 Houston Ave.
This building was built about 1957 as the southside branch of The First National Bank and Trust Co. It was the offset branch bank that First National opened. The bank appears to have stopped operating there past 2000. Vivian Wiley bought information technology in 2002 before it transferred between LLCs in 2008 and 2019.
Information technology is a mid-century modernistic edifice, making information technology the first such structure on the Fading 5 listing.
Stylistically, the building combines mid-century elements with modernistic takes on traditional bank architecture. The cast-stone panels on the side elevation, the paired horizontal metal sash windows and the metal, storefront system entrance are all mid-century features. The edifice also has modern takes on celebrated themes and traditional depository financial institution architectural fashion.
The building faces several different threats, including vacancy, vandalism and demolition through neglect.
The solution would be a sale to a proactive owner who volition repair it, put it dorsum in service and then maintain it.
The Roxy Theatre, 445 Hazel St.
Historic Macon is in the initial phase of nominating the Roxy Theatre for inclusion on the National Annals of Celebrated Places. It was added to the Fading Five list in 2020 (see below). The nomination process was delayed because an HMF representative could not go inside to take photos for documentation. In July, though, we were able to do so.
The nomination would add together additional momentum to rehabilitating the edifice — and the surrounding area — in tandem with Weston Stroud'due south project to establish a food park and pedestrian plaza.
THE COALING TOWER, 989 SEVENTH ST.
Discussions continue to effort to find a solution for the Coaling Tower, which was used as a coal chute until 1965, when its current possessor, Transco Railway, bought the tract it sits on (see below).
The site, located in the canton's Industrial Commune, was added to the Fading Five listing in 2018 (run into beneath) and is threatened with demolition past neglect. Historic Macon will go along the dialogue with Transco to effort to secure a conservation easement on the iconic structure.
BOBBY JONES PERFORMING ARTS Eye, 1389 JEFFERSON ST.
The Bobby Jones center is however in limbo as a result of contested ownership stemming from a split in the nonprofit grouping that owns information technology. It was added to the Fading Five list in 2017 and remains in danger of demolition by neglect (encounter below).
Historic Macon is still trying to observe a new owner for the building, located in the Pleasant Loma neighborhood. Amid its uses could exist a customs appointment venue.
2020 FADING Five LIST
The Roxy Theatre, 445 Hazel St.
In its heyday, the Roxy Theatre was a hub of community activity in what was known as the Tybee neighborhood, off what is now Martin Luther Rex Jr. Boulevard.
Information technology was a movie theater with a large marquee out front that advertised the films that were playing — or coming upwardly — and it also was used for live music, talent shows and more. Phil H. Kaplan built it. Among the events there in the 1950s: The Teenage Political party, where a young singer named Otis Redding took the stage. (The shows shortly outgrew the Roxy and moved to the Douglass Theatre.)
Its style is known as a Quonset hut (named for Quonset Point, R.I., where it was first built). These prefabricated buildings were popular during and subsequently World War II.
The theater opened in belatedly 1949, during the Jim Crow era, and was specifically for Blackness patrons. At the time, The Macon Telegraph noted its "comfortable ruby leather cushioned seats which are spaced far enough autonomously to forestall your having to move each time another patron comes in."
The theater closed nearly x years later with piffling notice. A Telegraph advertizing that ran Nov. 1, 1959, noted that the building was bachelor "for rent or for sale."
In 1960, the building was part of a charter-purchase agreement with a church, but in time that arrangement faded too.
The Roxy faces further turn down due to neglect, vandalism and unsympathetic redevelopment. Historic Macon will attempt to notice the legal belongings possessor and develop a long-term utilise for this iconic holding.
THE CODDINGTON HOUSE, 2510 VINEVILLE AVE.
The second improver to the 2020 Fading Five listing is the Neel Reid-designed Coddington Business firm at 2510 Vineville Ave. Reid is arguably Macon's most famous architect, and his design aesthetic is visible every day in cities all across Georgia.
Reid designed eight houses in the Vineville neighborhood. Four of them are in the three blocks from the intersection with Pio Nono Artery/Pierce Avenue to Buckingham Place. Two of the four are threatened by vacancy and neglect. This stretch of Vineville — with some of the larger and more elegant homes in the neighborhood — anchors the Vineville Historic District.
A full of 16 homes (v of them unoccupied); two small, historically commercial properties; and one church building line the avenue. This part of Vineville is the almost intact segment of the original Vineville suburb withal remaining. It is in danger of losing several homes if action is non taken presently.
The Coddington House is unoccupied. Information technology was briefly listed as in bankruptcy and was for sale, but it is now in limbo. The house is stable.
These three blocks are the last holdout of primarily residential properties that typify the corridor of the Vineville Celebrated District. The smaller and quieter cross streets are largely intact and form a vibrant residential neighborhood, but the pressures of increased traffic and commercial incursion forth the primary corridor are increasing.
Along the rest of Vineville Avenue (and in other major cities similar Atlanta), one time a major thoroughfare is no longer a residential street, the adjacent cross streets begin to crumble as well. If attention is brought soon to these 3 blocks, Historic Macon believes that it tin can preserve much of the critical fabric of the Historic Vineville neighborhood.
The Vineville Neighborhood Clan and Historic Macon Foundation would work hand in hand with the active group of current homeowners and to accomplish this goal.
DEWITT MCCRARY Firm, 320 Hydrolia St.
The DeWitt McCrary house, built in the 1870s and added to the Fading Five list in 2019, is a beautiful example of a Folk Victorian-style home. Located at 320 Hydrolia St. virtually the Factory Hill Community Arts Center, its nigh immediate threat comes from evolution pressure.
Mr. McCrary was born in 1859 in Lee County, most Albany, and graduated from Mercer Academy in 1876. He was a druggist and started a pharmacy nearby in 1881 at 336 Main St. During his life he was elected a city alderman and commissioner.
McCrary's widow sold the home for $850 in 1945 to Peyton Balkcom. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 and is part of the East Macon Historic Commune.
At one fourth dimension, there was a plan to build a gas station on the lot and tear down two other houses. But the Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning Committee denied that application.
Historic Macon continues conversations with the owner to endeavor to negotiate a bargain sale.
COALING TOWER, 989 Seventh St.
This unique structure was used as a coal chute until 1965, when its current possessor, Transco Railway, bought the tract that it sits on. The site, located in the canton's Industrial Commune, is at present used for runway car repairs.
Congenital in 1910 for the Central of Georgia Railroad, the Coaling Tower is a relic of Macon'southward booming industrial heritage. Sometimes referred to as a "tipple," the structure was built to furnish coal for the busy rail yard close by. The chute sits on a 22-acre parcel that in one case housed the Primal of Georgia Railroad car shops and massive roundhouse complex.
The Coaling Belfry, added to the Fading Five list in 2018, is threatened with demolition by neglect. When buildings or structures are no longer functional or serve a purpose, it is challenging to prioritize maintenance or upkeep.
Just last month, Macon-Bibb County'due south mayor and committee set aside funds for a structural report to evaluate the prospects of saving information technology.
Historic Macon aims to go along the dialogue with Transco to try to secure a conservation easement on the iconic construction. And every bit a reminder how cute it is, bank check out Curtis Hertwig's photo in the new Bright City exhibit at NewTown Macon.
BOBBY JONES PERFORMING ARTS Eye, 1389 Jefferson St.
The Bobby Jones Performing Arts Center was added to the Fading Five list in 2017.
It was originally the Start Congregational Church building, built in 1917. The church remained in this building until 1991, just it was vacant until the Booker T. Washington Foundation bought information technology. The community middle has used the building for everything from a 24-hour interval care to a dance studio known equally the Bobby Jones Centre for the Performing Arts.
Since the structure is deeded to the Booker T. Washington Center, which has struggled in recent years, it has been difficult for a new private owner to acquire it.
The building has been airtight in the last few years for lack of funds to make necessary repairs. The threat here also is demolition by neglect.
2019 FADING FIVE LIST
DEWITT MCCRARY HOUSE, 320 Hydrolia St.
The DeWitt McCrary House, built in the 1870s, is this year'southward new add-on to the Fading Five list. Information technology is a beautiful instance of a Folk Victorian-style dwelling house. Located at 320 Hydrolia St. near the Mill Hill Community Arts Eye, its nearly firsthand threat comes from development pressure.
Mr. McCrary was born in 1859 in Lee County, virtually Albany, and graduated from Mercer University in 1876. He was a druggist and started a chemist's nearby in 1881 at 336 Chief St. Amid his medicinal creations that brought him notoriety were "Dr. McCrary's Teething Powder" and "Dr. McCrary's Diarrhea and Cholera Cure." During his life he was elected a city alderman and commissioner.
McCrary's widow sold the home for $850 in 1945 to Peyton Balkcom. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 and is part of the East Macon Historic District.
Based on comparisons with a 1924 Sanborn Fire Insurance Co. map, the building's footprint seems to have been contradistinct very little over the years. It still has its wraparound porch.
At one fourth dimension, there was a plan to build a gas station on the lot and tear downwards two other houses. Simply the Macon-Bibb Canton Planning & Zoning Commission denied that application.
TRAIN RECREATION CENTER, 715 Oglethorpe St.
The Train Recreation Heart, owned by Macon-Bibb Canton, can but be restored and used past a government or nonprofit entity in order to see a deed stipulation that the Bibb Manufacturing Co. placed on the property in 1966. Last year Historic Macon and the county'south blight consultant, Cass Hatcher, proposed spending about $one.5 1000000 from bane bond proceeds to rehabilitate the facility every bit a new home for the Cooperative Extension office, thus saving monthly rental payments and adding a vibrant utilize to the important gateway site. The proposal was tabled, but it is scheduled for consideration again in September by the mayor and commission.
The center, located adjacent to the Bibb County Law Enforcement Middle, is in danger of demolition by neglect, prompting its inclusion on Fading V in 2016. Workers have covered a large pigsty in the roof with a tarp, but the unabridged structure suffers from fail. Ultimately, if the county wants to make blight a priority, it should start with backdrop nether its stewardship and atomic number 82 by example. Historic Macon stands prepare to piece of work with Macon-Bibb County officials to observe a compatible use — and the funds — for this landmark.
BOBBY JONES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 1389 Jefferson St.
The Bobby Jones Performing Arts Center, added to the Fading V list in 2017, remains in danger of demolition by fail. Since the structure is deeded to the Booker T. Washington Center, which has struggled in contempo years, it has been difficult for a new private owner to acquire it. Macon-Bibb County commissioners recently canonical spending more than $1 million for improvements to Washington center, across the street.
Historic Macon is still trying to detect a new possessor for the building, located in the Pleasant Colina neighborhood. In 2018, Tonja Khabir was selected as a Knight Foundation Emerging City Champion for her project that focused on reusing the center as a customs engagement venue. Through that project, volunteers cleaned up the holding, revealing the full building for the first time in years.
Earlier this year, Historic Macon and Khabir worked with interior pattern students at the Savannah College of Art and Design to create concepts for uses of the property. The goal is that the building — dwelling house to Offset Congregational Church more than 100 years ago — can become active in the life of Pleasant Hill and its revitalization once once again.
COALING Tower, 989 Seventh St.
This unique structure was used every bit a coal chute until 1965, when its electric current possessor, Transco Railway, bought the tract that information technology sits on. The site, located in the county's Industrial District, is now used for rail car repairs.
Built in 1910 for the Central of Georgia Railroad, the Coaling Tower is a relic of Macon's booming industrial heritage. Sometimes referred to as a "tipple," the structure was built to furnish coal for the decorated rail yard shut past. The chute sits on a 22-acre parcel that one time housed the Georgia Railroad car shops and massive roundhouse circuitous.
The Coaling Belfry, added to the Fading Five list in 2018, is threatened with demolition by fail. When buildings or structures are no longer functional or serve a purpose, it is challenging to prioritize maintenance or upkeep.
Historic Macon has communicated with Transco to effort to find a long-term preservation solution that would be relatively straightforward: The tower would be maintained in its current state and highlighted for its contribution to our community's history — and its popular social media presence.
GUY E. PAINE Business firm, 2733 Hillcrest Ave.
The Guy E. Paine Firm, congenital about 1912, is located in the Cherokee Heights Historic Commune. The Italian Renaissance-fashion home has had several owner-occupants over the years. The first one was Guy Paine, who was recruited to Macon from Chicago to work for the Penn Mutual Insurance Co.
Paine had an illustrious career in Macon. He served as president of the Chamber of Commerce in 1915 and 1916, was president of the Rotary Club and spearheaded Rotary's military committee. Paine and the committee were instrumental in getting the infrastructure improvements necessary for Camp Wheeler, a staging location for Army units during Globe War I and 2. The Paine family endemic the house until 1971.
The firm has been foreclosed on twice since 1998. It is now heavily overgrown and shows signs of neglect. It was added to the Fading Five list in 2017. The solution is for a sensitive new owner to buy and rehabilitate the belongings. Equally a contributing belongings in the Cherokee Heights Historic Commune, it is eligible for preservation incentives to assist with its restoration. Historic Macon has had productive conversations with the property owner, and nosotros look frontwards to an ongoing dialogue to find a new owner to dearest this house and help bring new investment to Cherokee Heights.
2018 Fading Five list
Coaling Tower, 989 Seventh Street
The Coaling Tower is the only new add-on to the Fading 5 list in 2018. Built in 1910 for the Primal of Georgia Railroad, the Coaling Tower is a relic of Macon's booming industrial heritage. Sometimes referred to equally a "tipple" the structure was purpose congenital to replenish coal for the busy rail yard. The chute sits on a 22 acre parcel that in one case housed the Georgia Railroad auto shops and massive roundhouse complex. The unique construction was used as a coal chute until 1965 when it was purchased past current owner, Tranco Railcar, Inc. who has since used the property for rail machine repairs.
The Coaling Tower is threatened with demolition past neglect. When buildings or structures are no longer functional or serve a purpose it is challenging to prioritize maintenance or upkeep.
HMF connected with Transco last week and hopes to proceed the dialogue to find a long term preservation solution that would be relatively straightforward – the tower would be maintained in its electric current land and exist interpreted and highlighted for its contribution to our community's history AND today's social media. This may be Macon's most prominent Instagram spot – but google the coal tower and you'll be amazed at all the pictures.
Guy E. Paine House,2733 Hillcrest Avenue
The Guy Eastward. Paine House is a contributing property in the Cherokee Heights National Register of Historic Places Commune. The house was built circa 1912 in Italian Renaissance style as part of the original development of the Cherokee Heights neighborhood and has had a number owner-occupants in its lifetime. The kickoff owner was Guy Eastward. Paine, who was recruited to Macon past Henry C. Bagley to work for the Penn Mutual Insurance Company. Although Paine had visited Macon on business before, he had been living in Chicago prior to coming dorsum down S. Paine had an illustrious career in Macon. He served as the President of the Chamber of Commerce in 1915 and 1916, President of Rotary and spearheaded Rotary's military committee. Paine and the committee were instrumental in getting the infrastructure improvements necessary for Camp Wheeler. The Paine family owned the house until 1971.
The house has been foreclosed on twice since 1998. A 2013 image shows the property in at least fair condition, simply it is now heavily overgrown and shows signs of fail.
The solution for this property is buy and rehabilitation by a sensitive new owner. As a contributing property in the Cherokee Heights National Register Celebrated Commune, information technology is eligible for preservation incentives to assist with its rehabilitation. HMF has had productive conversations with the holding owner this month and wait forward to the ongoing dialogue to find a new owner to love this business firm and assist bring new investment to Cherokee Heights.
Cotton Avenue District
Although parts of what was historically known as Cotton Avenue go by many names, the original thoroughfare withal exists. During the twentieth century, Jim Crow laws forced African Americans to institute split up business districts in Macon. The Cotton Avenue District became 1 of these areas and grew into a major center of black concern. After integration, black-owned businesses had new contest with other downtown establishments, and some in this area closed their doors. Today, this district is nether greater development force per unit area than virtually anywhere else in Macon-Bibb County. The large workforce of the surface area combined with the number of vacant buildings makes structures in this area prime targets for sabotage. Similarly, the demand for land for commercial purposes has the potential to strength out smaller businesses, crumbling church building congregations, and community institutions like the Ruth Hartley Mosley Memorial Women's Center.
Fading Five listing brought much needed attention to Cotton Artery, preventing further demolition over the past three years. Progress is underway on the buildings one time held past Albert Billingslea. This stretch of buildings has long been in question, but in Dec 2017 they were caused past Virgil Adams and Brian Adams who are using historic taxation credits to rehabilitate the buildings. For the past ii years, HMF worked with the Cotton Artery Coalition to host the Cotton Avenue Revival Festival, tours of the neighborhood, and a concert in Loftier Street Park. In September, the district will be featured for tours for the Statewide Preservation Conference.
Train Recreation Centre, 715 Oglethorpe Street
Completed in 1920, the Train Recreation Center was built by the Bibb Manufacturing Visitor for their workers in the nearby mill hamlet and is the merely construction built by the company remaining in the downtown area. This impressive Arts and Craft style facility was function of a national reform motility that demanded material mills care for their employees and their families more humanely. Costless recreational facilities were i way to achieve this goal. The company actually acquired this land back in 1850, when it was known as the Macon Manufacturing Company in order to supply h2o to the nearby mill. The lot sits on a "Never Failing Spring," making it an platonic spot for a reservoir. Bibb Manufacturing sold the unabridged property back to the Urban center of Macon in 1966 with the stipulation that it must always exist used for public or charitable purposes. The City continued to use the building as a recreation centre until at least 1980. The edifice has sat vacant for several years.
The Train Recreation Center is in danger of demolition by neglect. Although the big hole in the roof has been covered with a tarp, the unabridged structure is suffering from neglect. In October 2017, Mayor Reichert proposed spending $1.5M in blight bail funds to rehabilitate the building to be used for the Georgia Cooperative Extension office thereby saving the County monthly rental payments for the Extension function. The proposal was met with a chilly reception, merely ultimately if the County wants to make blight a priority they should get-go with the properties under their stewardship and lead by example.
HMF stands set to piece of work with Macon-Bibb County officials to notice a uniform use and funds for the prominent Train Recreation Center.
Bobby Jones Performing Arts Center, 1389 Jefferson Street
This building was originally the Offset Congregational Church congenital in 1917 and was a historically African American church in the Pleasant Hill neighborhood. The congregation was established in 1868 and immediately began working the "higher development and improvement" of Macon'southward blackness community. The church had very close ties with Ballard Hudson Normal School because of their mutual goals to increase didactics and civic-mindedness in African Americans, despite the harsh laws of segregation throughout the area at that fourth dimension. The First Congregational Church remained in this building until 1991. The construction was then vacant betwixt 1992 and 1997, before information technology was purchased by the Booker T. Washington Foundation, whose main community center was and so located across the street. The customs center has used the building for everything from a daycare to a trip the light fantastic studio known as the Bobby Jones Center for the Performing Arts since purchasing it in 1998. However, they shuttered the building in the last few years considering they do not accept the funds to make some necessary repairs.
The threat to the Bobby Jones Performing Arts Center is demolition by neglect. The Booker T. Washington Foundation is no longer agile and does not have the personnel or funds to look after the structure.
The solution for the Bobby Jones Performing Arts Heart is redevelopment past a sensitive new owner. Since the building is currently owned by a moribund non-turn a profit, information technology will exist difficult for a new owner to larn. HMF is working to discover new owners for the edifice and working with Tonja Khabir, 2018 Knight Emerging Leader, to demonstrate the potential of the building to revitalization of the neighborhood.
2017 Fading five list
Train Recreation Center, 715 Oglethorpe Street
Completed in 1920, the Train Recreation Eye was built by the Bibb Manufacturing Company for their workers in the nearby mill village and is the just structure built past the company remaining in the downtown area. This impressive Arts and Craft style facility was part of a national reform move that demanded textile mills treat their employees and their families more humanely. Free recreational facilities were 1 manner to achieve this goal. The company actually caused this land dorsum in 1850, when it was known equally the Macon Manufacturing Visitor in lodge to supply water to the nearby mill. The lot sits on a "Never Failing Spring," making information technology an ideal spot for a reservoir. Bibb Manufacturing sold the entire property dorsum to the City of Macon in 1966 with the stipulation that it must always exist used for public or charitable purposes. The Metropolis continued to use the building every bit a recreation middle until at to the lowest degree 1980. The building has sat vacant for several years.
The Railroad train Recreational Center is in danger of demolition by neglect. Although the large hole in the roof has been covered with a tarp, the entire structure is suffering from neglect. Since beingness added to the Fading 5 in 2016, several uses have been vetted and HMF continues to piece of work with Macon-Bibb County to find a viable apply for the of import building.
The A.E. Barnes Duplexes, 862 and 864 Spring Street
The Mayor and City Council of Macon sold the country that both of these two houses sit on to A.E. Barnes on June ii, 1906, and the parcel has remained one unit of measurement ever since. Designed and built as duplexes, countless tenants have resided in these buildings. Eventually, A.Due east. Barnes Three, noted Macon businessman and real estate programmer, inherited the holding, and he sold the property for $5 to his son Waddell Barnes on Nov two, 1972. The holding remained in the Barnes family until July 29, 2015 when it was sold to the Macon-Bibb County Hospital Authority.
The threat to the A.Eastward. Barnes Duplexes is pending sabotage. In June 2017, the Hospital Authority offered the buildings and a nearby lot to HMF if we could motility the houses by March 2018. Additionally, they offered to donate the expense they would incur on demolition, which is estimated to exist $20,000. Unfortunately, the cost to relocate the houses is estimated at over $100,000 per house.
Given the impracticality and high cost of relocating the masonry duplexes, HMF hopes to continue working with Navicent to pursue other options to reuse these buildings in situ.
Guy E. Paine House, 2733 Hillcrest Avenue
The Guy E. Paine House is a contributing holding in the Cherokee Heights National Annals of Celebrated Places District. The business firm was built circa 1912 in Italian Renaissance style as part of the original development of the Cherokee Heights neighborhood and has had a number owner-occupants in its lifetime. The first owner was Guy Eastward. Paine, who was recruited to Macon by Henry C. Bagley to piece of work for the Penn Mutual Insurance Company. Although Paine had visited Macon on business organization before, he had been living in Chicago prior to coming back downwards South. Paine had an illustrious career in Macon. He served as the President of the Bedroom of Commerce in 1915 and 1916, President of Rotary and spearheaded Rotary's military committee. Paine and the committee were instrumental in getting the infrastructure improvements necessary for Campsite Wheeler. The Paine family owned the firm until 1971.
The house has been foreclosed on twice since 1998. A 2013 prototype shows the property in at least fair status, just it is now heavily overgrown and shows signs of neglect.
The solution for this property is purchase and rehabilitation by a sensitive new owner. As a contributing property in the Cherokee Heights National Register Historic District, it is eligible for preservation incentives to help with its rehabilitation. HMF looks forward to working with the property owner to preserve this unique business firm.
Photo courtesy of the Macon-Bibb Canton Tax Assessor.
Bobby Jones Performing Arts Center, 1389 Jefferson Street
This edifice was originally the Kickoff Congregational Church building built in 1917 and was a historically African American church in the Pleasant Hill neighborhood. The congregation was established in 1868 and immediately began working the "college development and improvement" of Macon's black customs. The church had very close ties with Ballard Hudson Normal School because of their mutual goals to increment instruction and civic-mindedness in African Americans, despite the harsh laws of segregation throughout the expanse at that fourth dimension. The Offset Congregational Church remained in this edifice until 1991. The structure was so vacant between 1992 and 1997, before it was purchased by the Booker T. Washington Foundation, whose main community center was then located across the street. The community centre has used the edifice for everything from a daycare to a dance studio known as the Bobby Jones Center for the Performing Arts since purchasing it in 1998. Still, they shuttered the building in the last few years because they exercise not have the funds to make some necessary repairs.
The threat to the Bobby Jones Performing Arts Center is demolition by neglect. The Booker T. Washington Foundation is no longer active and does not have the personnel or funds to look after the structure.
The solution for the Bobby Jones Performing Arts Center is redevelopment by a sensitive new possessor. Since the building is currently owned by a moribund non-profit, it will be hard for a new owner to acquire. Historic Macon is actively seeking solutions to this issue and welcomes whatsoever information about its ownership or possible means for a new owner to buy the edifice.
Although parts of what was historically known as Cotton fiber Artery go past many names, the original thoroughfare still exists. During the twentieth century, Jim Crow laws forced African Americans to establish dissever business districts in Macon. The Cotton wool Avenue District became one of these areas and grew into a major eye of black concern. Afterwards integration, blackness-endemic businesses had new contest with other downtown establishments, and some in this area airtight their doors. Today, this district is under greater development pressure than almost anywhere else in Macon-Bibb County. The large workforce of the area combined with the number of vacant buildings makes structures in this expanse prime targets for sabotage. Similarly, the need for country for commercial purposes has the potential to force out smaller businesses, aging church congregations, and community institutions like the Ruth Hartley Mosley Memorial Women'south Center (pictured).
Fading Five listing brought much needed attending to Cotton wool Avenue, preventing further demolition over the by two years. In March 2017, HMF worked with the Cotton Avenue Coalition to host the Cotton Artery Revival Festival.
In re-listing the district, Celebrated Macon plans to focus on two specific action items. Starting time, HMF plans to abet for stricter zoning regulations regarding demolition in this area. Secondly, Historic Macon will keep to support the grassroots Cotton wool Avenue Coalition, and its piece of work to encourage the respectful growth of this district.
2016 FADING 5 LIST
Cotton wool Avenue District
Although parts of what was historically known as Cotton wool Avenue go past many names, the original thoroughfare still exists. During the twentieth century, Jim Crow laws forced African Americans to establish carve up business districts in downtown Macon. Cotton fiber Avenue became one of those districts and grew into a major center of black business with entrepreneurs working equally barbers, shoemakers, lawyers, dentists, and everything in between. Later integration, black-endemic businesses had new contest with other downtown establishments, and some in this area closed their doors. Today, this district is under greater evolution pressure than almost anywhere else in Macon-Bibb County. The large workforce of the area combined with the number of vacant buildings makes structures in this area prime targets for demolition. Similarly, the demand for land for commercial purposes has the potential to forcefulness out smaller businesses and aging church congregations.
Fading V list brought much needed attention to Cotton wool Artery, preventing further demolition in the past yr. In re-list the district, Historic Macon plans to focus on 2 specific action items. First, HMF plans to advocate for stricter zoning regulations regarding demolition in this area. Secondly, Historic Macon volition provide assistance to electric current Cotton Avenue tenants who would like to remain in the district. In item, Historic Macon volition work with Steward Chapel AME Church at 887 Forsyth Street.
Founded in 1865, Steward Chapel AME Church has long been involved in the pursuit of both religious liberty and social justice. The congregation laid the cornerstone of its magnificent structure in 1889, and this church has continued to exist "a beacon of light in a world of darkness" e'er since. By again declaring the Cotton fiber Avenue Commune ENDANGERED and highlighting Steward Chapel AME Church building, Historic Macon plans to proceed working for a solution for the whole area, as well as working with the energetic new leadership at Steward Chapel.
UPDATE: Historic Macon is part of the Cotton Avenue Coalition, a group of community leaders and activists who have a vested interest in the preservation and revitalization of the Cotton Avenue district. In March of 2017, the Coalition held the Cotton Avenue Revival Festival as a sanctioned Cherry Blossom Event. The Coalition won a Downtown Challenge Grant from the Customs Foundation of Primal Georgia to host the festival. The Coalition continues to piece of work together to promote and preserve the district and has planned a planning retreat for the summertime of 2017.
Train Recreation Center (715 Oglethorpe Street)
Bibb Manufacturing Visitor built the Train Recreation Middle in 1920 for its workers in the nearby manufacturing plant hamlet. Today, it is the but remaining construction built by the company in the downtown area. The impressive Craftsman manner facility was part of a national reform motility that demanded cloth mills treat their employees and their families more than humanely. Gratuitous recreational facilities were one way to achieve this goal. The visitor actually acquired this country back in 1850, when it was known as the Macon Manufacturing Company in order to supply water to the nearby mill. The lot sits on a "Never Failing Spring," making it an ideal spot for a reservoir. Bibb Manufacturing sold the property to the Urban center of Macon in 1966 with the stipulation that it must ever be used for public or charitable purposes. The City continued to use the building as a recreation center until 1980 and was subsequently utilized every bit a daycare until the 1990s. The building has stood vacant since.
The Train Recreation Centre is in danger of Sabotage By NEGLECT. Although the large hole in the roof is covered with a tarp, the entire structure suffers from rot and water impairment.
There are many possible solutions for this building that run across the act-stipulated requirement for public or charitable purposes. HMF looks forward to working with Macon-Bibb County to detect a new use for the property.
The Grotto (461 Forest Road)
The state of Georgia granted this country to Ann Rich in 1821 after the Native Americans were forcibly removed from it. In 1901, La Societe Catholique Religieuse purchased a 100-acre tract of land as a retreat for the students and faculty of St. Stanislaus Higher, which La Societe oversaw. The Jesuits of the Higher synthetic a shrine to Saint Bernadette shortly afterward purchasing the property, along with a reflection pool. The shrine has a large central entrance with a smaller cavity to the left where a fireplace is withal visible. Over the height, there is a niche that originally contained a statue of the Virgin Mary, though it is no longer in that location. This shrine is one of the many copies of the original in Lourdes, France.
Almost all of St. Stanislaus' campus burned in a massive fire in 1921. For a few years, La Societe attempted to raise funds to rebuild the college with no success. They sold the land, which now contains many historically and architecturally significant homes. At the same time in 1929, La Societe sold the tract of virgin forest containing the Grotto to private developers, and the belongings has been privately owned ever since.
The threats to the Grotto are DEMOLITION BY Fail and Active VANDALISM.
The solution for the Grotto is conservation easements and public access. The Grotto needs visitors who are interested in its history and preservation to discourage vandalism. The surrounding timber also needs a management program to ensure this former growth hardwood remains for future generations.
John B. Brooks House (169 Lamar Street)
The John B. Brooks House sits on country originally known equally the J.P. Lamar Sr. holding in the Vineville Historic District. Built in 1908, it is indicative of the type of houses built in Vineville during the early twentieth century.
The Brooks family enjoyed the cute features of this business firm from 1908 until 1953. During that time, the family received quite a fleck of attending in the Macon Telegraph. Shortly afterwards building this house, John Brooks appeared in court every bit a defendant for distilling whiskey. The City of Macon and Bibb Canton began establishing prohibition laws before the Prohibition Act of 1921, and James Brooks was in violation of those laws as early on as 1916. Not all the coverage the family received was negative, however. John Brooks' daughter, Eva Mae Brooks, was nominated as one of the virtually popular young ladies in town during a vote held in the Macon Telegraph in 1933. John Brooks' son, James, fought during World War II, rising to the rank of corporal in the 770th Field Artillery Battalion. After the Brooks, diverse owners and tenants resided in the firm over the years. In 2007, Lamar Street Limited, LLC caused the belongings along with many others forth Lamar Street.
The John B. Brooks Business firm is in danger of DEMOLITION BY NEGLECT. Equally a contributing structure in the Vineville National Register Historic District, it is eligible for preservation incentives and is calling out for a new family to motility in and brand it abode.
The solution for the John B. Brooks House is rehabilitation by a sensitive new owner.
Bobby Jones Performing Arts Center (1389 Jefferson Street)
The Start Congregational Church, a historically African American congregation in Pleasant Hill, constructed this building in 1917. The congregation was established in 1868, and immediately dedicated its services to the "higher development and improvement" of Macon's black customs. The church building had very close ties with Ballard Hudson Normal Schoolhouse because of their common goals to increment education and civic-mindedness in African Americans, despite the harsh laws of segregation throughout the expanse at that fourth dimension.
The First Congregational Church remained in this building until 1991. The structure stood vacant between 1992 and 1997, before it was purchased past the Booker T. Washington Community Heart. The Centre used the building for everything, from a day intendance centre to a trip the light fantastic studio. During this use, the building became known as the Bobby Jones Performing Arts Heart. The Center was named in laurels of Bobby Jones, PhD, the beginning African American professor to earn tenure at Mercer University. Nevertheless, the Center shuttered the building a few years agone due to lack of resource to brand necessary repairs.
The threat to the Bobby Jones Performing Arts Center is Sabotage Past NEGLECT. The Heart does non have the funds to properly seal the edifice or supplant the roof, which is leaking in several places.
The solution for the Bobby Jones Performing Arts Center is a long-term viable use that contributes to Pleasant Hill once more.
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Schofield Fe Works Complex (509, 513, 521 Fifth Street)
Macon'south primal location on the rail lines and its access to the Ocmulgee River made it a booming industrial scene in the 1800s. Many foundries and iron works were needed to supply the cotton wool manufacture, railroads and farmers. Founded in 1859 on 5th Street, Schofield Iron Works grew into a large company, after known every bit Taylor Iron Works, to help meet the demand. The ii-story masonry edifice was strategically built next to the Union Depot where major rails lines converged. Schofield was well known for its steam-powered cotton presses and sold equipment globally from Southward America to Nihon. The visitor'due south building reflected this prestige. The decorative brickwork on the second story and to a higher place the windows on that floor resonates with that legacy. Schofield continued operations in the growing complex until 1924, when the visitor moved to a new plant on Edgewood Avenue.
Although Schofield moved out of this building, J.H. DuBose quickly reused it from 1904 to 1912. And then in 1912, the Adams Manufacturing Company moved into the building and stayed until 1940. At various times, other businesses shared this large space, including three wholesale produce and grocery firms from 1915 to 1920.
In 1942, the C.West. Farmer Company decided the large structure would be ideal for their wholesale retail and mill supplies business. C.W. Farmer remained in the building until the company closed in 1979, at the same fourth dimension many mills across the southeast closed. The buildings sat vacant for a couple years before L&M Manufacturers moved in during the mid-1980s. That visitor moved out in 1995, and the complex has been vacant always since leaving it in a land of demolition by neglect.
The buildings are contributing to the Macon Historic District and the Macon Railroad Industrial District, making it eligible for state and federal historic rehabilitation tax incentives.
Historic Macon Foundation looks frontwards to working with Magnolia State Banking company to notice a new buyer who can reuse most, if not all, of these pregnant industrial buildings. Equally Downtown Macon continues to blossom, the Schofield Fe Works Complex is well situated for redevelopment merely must be sold apace and at a fair price given the substantial investment that needs to be made.
UPDATE: The Urban Development Authority purchased Schofield Fe Works and is currently working with developers to create an advisable rehabilitation plan for the warehouse.
Alexander IV Elementary School (3769 Ridge Avenue)
Alexander IV Unproblematic School was established in 1932 as the fourth gratuitous school supported by the Elam Alexander Trust. Mr. Elam Alexander, a notable architect, believed that free, quality education was paramount for the success of individuals, which in turn would lead to the success of Macon as a community. During his lifetime, Mr. Alexander gave generously to many educational institutions, and in his will, he set upwardly the Alexander Gratis School Board, afterwards known as the Elam Alexander Trust. This organization continues to promote educational activity in Macon-Bibb Canton.
This item elementary school was built in the Ingleside neighborhood to save overcrowding at the Bellevue and Clisby Schools. The Ridge Avenue location was more user-friendly for many of its new students, who lived in the recently established Ingleside neighborhood. The community waited in great apprehension for its new school, which the Macon Telegraph described as a "gabled, bronze-hued, English language blazon" building. Such was the anticipation that the newspaper even wrote a description of the interior: "the mellow cream and brown interior of the school with its statuary trimmings and rose-tiled floors."
The excitement continued after Alexander 4's opening. Ms. Nell Collins, who both taught the seventh form and served as the first master, asked the Parent Teacher Association to hold a special tea, which formally unveiled the school in November 1932. Simply a month before, a plaque was defended to Elam Alexander at the front end entrance of the school. That plaque is still in place today.
Alexander Iv's prominent function in the community continued in many ways through the twentieth century. For instance, the school fielded a dominant football squad for Macon's annual Pony Bowl, a football game played around Thanksgiving, from 1949 to 1960. The school'south integral role in the customs came to a shut in June 2011, when Alexander IV closed its doors to students.
Today, the building's steeply pitched gables, exposed beams, and intricate decoration stand empty to students. The Bibb County Board of Education declared the building surplus in 2013 and is seeking a new use for the pregnant building, which is a contributing building in the proposed Ingleside National Register District.
Celebrated Macon Foundation looks forward to working with the neighbors and the Lath of Education to find a new use for the iconic school edifice. Across the land school buildings have been adapted to multiple uses, and we are confident Alexander IV will in one case once again be an anchor and nugget for the community.
UPDATE: The Bibb County Board of Education approved the sale of Alex IV to the Macon-Bibb Country State Bank Authority. The State Bank Authority will concord the building as Celebrated Macon works with a commission to send out a request for proposal to developers.
Dover Development has been selected to renovated Alex 4 into a senior living facility. Read more than.
UPDATE: Celebrated Macon published a walking tour of borchure of Cotton Avenue District in February 2016 to raise awareness about this area's historic significance and the intense development pressure level the district is experiencing.
Although today parts of what was historically known every bit Cotton Artery go by different names, portions of the original neighborhood still exist. Cotton fiber Avenue was the primary thoroughfare for cotton bales coming from rural farms into Macon. The gentle downhill slope of this road made it ideal for carts taking the bales down to barges on the Ocmulgee River, where they could be easily transported to gins. Around this thriving agricultural economic system many businesses sprang up in the 1800s.
During the twentieth century, Jim Crow laws forced African Americans to constitute separate business districts in downtown Macon. Cotton Artery and the nearby streets became one of those districts and grew into a major center of black business with entrepreneurs working equally everything from barbers and shoemakers to lawyers and dentists. The offset licensed African American chaser in Macon had his office in this area, as did Dr. D.T. Walton, Sr. Walton worked as a dentist, but his contributions every bit a civil rights activist are what earned him the honour of having the portion of Cotton wool Avenue where he worked named subsequently him.
After integration, blackness-owned businesses had new competition with the other downtown businesses, and some in this area were forced to shut their doors. But 1 well-known entity opened its doors Cotton Artery during this time – Capricorn Records. Capricorn Records is known as the label that launched the southern rock genre with records from the Allman Brothers Band, Marshall Tucker, and Wet Willie. Before Phil and Alan Walden established Capricorn though, they partnered with Otis Redding to form Redwal Music. Their role, which was the first integrated role in Macon, was located at 535 Cotton Avenue, because they could not rent space anywhere else downtown.
The Cotton Avenue District is under tremendous development pressure. In less than a year, both Tremont Temple Baptist Church and the Charles Douglass Business firm were demolished to make mode for new development. The Cotton Avenue District and the existing historic buildings are ideal for new and existing businesses. Additionally, there are several surface parking lots that are well suited for new, higher density developments. Historic Macon Foundation looks forward to working with property owners and neighborhood representatives to ensure the character of the pregnant neighborhood is not lost forever.
UPDATE: Celebrated Macon has been working to raise awareness and educate the public about this importance and significance of the Cotton wool Avenue District. On February 27, Historic Macon unveiled a walking tour brochure of the district and held a trolley tour led past George Muhammad. During 2016 Preservation Month, Celebrated Macon hosted another walking tour of the commune.
Bonnybrae-Bedgood House (1073 Georgia Avenue)
UPDATE: A family has purchased the Boonybrae-Bedgood House and volition rehabilitate information technology every bit a single-family unit home, its original use. Rehabilitation is well-underway.
Known by many family unit names, the Greek Revival house at 1073 Georgia Artery was built between 1838 and 1839 by James Goddard of Athol, Massachusetts. Goddard sold the business firm only a couple years later to another Massachusetts native, George Newhall. In 1846, Isaac Scott, president of the Macon and Western Railroad too as the Upson County Railroad, purchased the house. Railroads were a very of import part of Macon'south industrial success in the nineteenth century, and Scott played a prominent office in that business organisation during the time he lived in this architectural masterpiece.
In 1865, Walter Arnold Huff bought the firm after the Scotts moved to New York. Continuing the house's tradition of prominent residents, Huff was Mayor of Macon from 1870 to 1880. So in 1875, Thomas Greshman owned and lived in the house. Although Thomas B. Greshman did not serve in political office himself, John Jones Gresham, his male parent, served every bit Mayor of Macon in the 1840s and as a State Senator and Representative.
Thomas Gresham moved to Baltimore in 1886, and the firm went through a number of unlike hands until 1893, when William McEwen Johnston purchased the house for his wife, Flewellen Reese. She renamed with the firm "Bonnybrae," which information technology was ordinarily known every bit at to the lowest degree until the 1970s. During this era, the business firm underwent a dramatic change after notable builder, Neil Reid, most doubled the house and transformed it to the business firm we see today.
In 1913, the house was converted into apartments units, and even hosted the "Hinkle Clinic" in the 1920s. The structure went through a variety of uses over the next fifty years, until the United Methodist Church purchased information technology in 1970. In 1976, the Bedgood family purchased the domicile, and the daughters nonetheless own it today.
This loftier-style structure retains its magnificent white columns on the façade that wrap around to a secondary elevation. The spacious lawn to the side of the house, which faces the rear of Mercer University'due south Walter F. George School of Law, grants views of both the original business firm and a larger addition on the rear. Both trophy notwithstanding showcase elaborate dentil work under the eaves.
Today, the Bonnybrae-Bedgood Business firm is one of Macon'due south concluding antebellum houses without an owner. Historic Macon Foundation looks forward to working with the electric current owners to assist market and promote the business firm to a new buyer for the adjacent chapter of the house.
UPDATE: A family unit living in north Macon purchased the Bonnybrae-Bedgood Firm and will rehabilitate information technology as a single-family unit home. Work is underway and the family unit is taking reward of Historic Macon'south tax credit consulting service to complete renovations.
Ware House (1107 Oglethorpe Street)
UPDATE: Historic Macon purchased the Ware Firm and will rehabilitate every bit office of its neighborhood revitalization efforts in Beall's Hill.
Thomas Jefferson Ware built the firm at 1107 Oglethorpe Street, which still sits on a prominent corner of the Beall's Colina neighborhood, around 1880. Ware was a urban center alderman and eventually commissioner of public works, too as owning a local grocery store merely blocks abroad from his house. Playing a prominent part in Macon's political and social life, Ware lived in this house until 1917, when he moved to Atlanta. Upon his death 2 years after, his son-in-law Benjamin F. Sutton bought out Ware'due south other descendants to own the business firm outright, though information technology was Sylvanus Prince, some other of Ware'due south son-in-laws, who actually called this place home.
Although the building has had many residents, it has had relatively few owners. The house was rented out starting in the 1920s to many dissimilar people, before becoming a formal boarding house in 1940. In 1942, the Macon Urban center Directory lists 34 adults as residents at this accost with the proprietor Mrs. Maude Moat. In the late 1940s, the house became a single family home again, though the rear edifice was still rented to different people at various times. In 1965, the current owners purchased the abode and raised their family in that location. Between 1968 and 1976, the building served equally the Oglethorpe Plant nursery School, and since 1992, the structure has claimed multiple residents.
1107 Oglethorpe Street stands out in the Beall'southward Hill neighborhood, not only because of its prominent location or larger size but also for its Queen Anne way architecture with free classic details. The house has a classically Victorian irregular shape, with steeply pitched gables featuring diamond-shaped louvered vents. Beneath the eaves, the structure still retains elaborate decorative braces and dentils, details that are characteristic of its style and subtype. Everything from the warp-effectually porch to the original double-hung sash windows still present remind those who gaze upon this belongings today that the family who built this house did and so with care and peachy pride in their city. Historic Macon Foundation continues to work in Beall's Hill and looks forward to working with the owners of the Ware House to rehabilitate the house to its former glory.
UPDATE: Historic Macon purchased the Ware House in tardily 2015 and sold it to a family unit that is rehabbing information technology as their future dwelling house. Construction is well-underway!
Source: http://www.historicmacon.org/macons-fading-five
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