Sidney Lanier Cottage, Gothic Revival museum in Macon, Georgia, United States.
The Sidney Lanier Cottage is a white frame Victorian cottage on High Street, built in 1840 as a four-room house and renovated to its present Gothic Revival style in 1880. In 1879 it was moved fifty feet and two rooms and a porch were added. It has been restored as a single-family residence and is not open as a museum.
The house was built in 1840 as the birthplace of poet and musician Sidney Lanier. It earned recognition on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, marking its importance as a home of an artist who shaped American cultural life.
The cottage is named for Sidney Lanier, born there in 1842, and the house stayed in family hands for generations. His wife Mary Day's 1867 wedding dress and photographs of the couple were among the items shown when the building served as a museum. Since 2021 it has been restored as a private single-family residence.
The cottage stands on High Street in Macon, within the Macon Historic District, and can be reached on foot from the downtown core. It has been a private single-family residence since 2021, so it is not open for tours or visits; the building is seen from the street.
Lanier was both a poet and a skilled flutist who composed music, which was an unusual combination for his time. The collections in the house reveal this rare dual talent and how it defined his life and work.
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