The one that got away

I recently found a house on the Georgia Trust website for an endangered historic house in Macon, the house is known as the Napier House. It had to be moved or it was going to be torn down. The house is a beautiful Antebellum Greek Revival style home built in 1842. This style is my dream home. I WILL own one one day.

Anyways, the house was being sold for $1! Unfortunately I was too late. A town just south of Atlanta has already bought the property and is in the process of moving it the 100 miles from Macon to Atlanta. You can watch a video of the house being cut in half in preperation to be moved here.

Aftermath pictures from Monday's devestation

Yet another sad day for historic homes

We were sitting on our front porch yesterday evening when I noticed some smoke in the distance. It appeared to be coming from the north side of downtown. We hurriedly hopped in the car and drove there. Afer a few seconds of driving my heart dropped into my stomach. I knew what was on fire, it was the old funeral home on Hill st.

Picture taken 2 months ago

I'm not too sure about the history of the house. Some say it was built right at the turn of the 20th century, others say it's antebellum. Either way it was a beautiful old house. Just 2 months ago I decided to go around town and take pictures of the historical homes in Griffin. I took the above photo and as I was walking around it the funeral director came to the door, I explained how much I loved old houses and he let me in for a tour.

Foyer

Parlor

Parlor2

That was how it looked 2 months ago, the pictures below are from last night: