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e home at 1116 Ash St. shares a lot with its Queen Anne-style
predecessors, with its balloon-framed timber construction, lapped
wood siding meeting corner boards and two-over-two double-hung,
double-sash solid wood windows. Unlike its earlier neighbors, it lacks
almost all ornamentation. Especially absent is any gingerbread trim,
which had been very popular just a few years prior. Ash Street fits a
nomenclature dating to the founding of the city, where streets running
east-west were numbered, and streets running north-south were
named for trees. Ash Street is the 13th and penultimate tree name of
this system, as the street just two blocks south (now Edgewood) was
known as Boundary Street in 1854 and was the full extent of the city's
border. e first owners were H.N. and Era Anderson Oliphant, who
lived in the house until 1924. e Oliphants were active members
of Cherokee Heights Methodist Church, on the same street as their
home at the intersection of Pio Nono Avenue and Montpelier Avenue.
Oliphant was a police officer.
A succession of owners and the suburbanization of Macon,
led to the degradation of the home. Before rediscovering its historic
beauty, the home was converted to low-income rental property by an
out-of-town landlord in 1993. e landlord eventually abandoned
the property, and it was purchased by Historic Macon. One of the
preservation decisions made was adding a second bedroom and bath
to the rear of the home to provide, increasing the home's size to 1,311
square feet.
1116 ASH STREET
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