- Collection:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation Presentation Slide Collection, 1968-2000
- Title:
- Poplar Street Building, Macon
- Creator:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Contributor to Resource:
- Toole, Debbie Curtis
- Date of Original:
- 1960/2000
- Subject:
- Architecture
Historic sites--Georgia--Bibb County
Historic buildings--Georgia--Bibb County
Commercial buildings
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
Weathering of buildings
Cultural property--Protection
Historic preservation--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324
- Medium:
- color slides
downtowns
business districts
deterioration
historic preservation
historic buildings - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- [Before award winning preservation work]. From the National Register of Historic Places application form prepared by Debbie Curtis, Architectural Historian, Historic Preservation Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources in 1995:This area is significant for the historic central business district that served the commercial needs of the city and surrounding region. The central business district was part of the original town plan laid out in 1823. The streets in this area are lined with blocks of attached masonry commercial buildings that identify the area as the city's commercial center. These buildings historically contained mostly retail stores on the first floors and professional offices on the floors above. Commercial development later grew to the southwest and represents the late-19th to mid-20th-century expansion of the original central business district. A number of commercial and auto-related buildings remain in this area as evidence of commercial activity. Warehouses in this area near the rail lines also represent the wholesaling activity that took place. The building in this slide is a two-story historic brick building located at 432-446 Poplar Street in Macon, Georgia, prior to the building's renovation. Macon was one of three Georgia cities specifically planned by the Georgia state legislature in the early 19th century as a center of trade for a new area of settlement. A large portion of the original town plan is included within the district and represents Macon's role in Georgia town planning. Subsequent historic development that resulted from the city's growth to the northwest and west is represented by the various other historic street patterns remaining in the adjacent residential areas. This section of the district preserves the commercial history of the city's early 19th-century origins as a state-chartered center of trade for middle Georgia. This revised historic district (the original district was submitted in the 1970s) is important for its inclusion of Macon's original town plan that guided the city's development from 1823 into the 1940s. Variant names include: Poplar Street Building, Macon, pre-renovation,432-446 Poplar Street, pre-renovation. See ref # 95000233 (Macon Historic District (Boundary Increase)) https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/national-register-listed-20240710.xlsx
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_499
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_499#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_499/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Rights:
-
