Historical Homes
This prominent Beaux-Arts home, built in 1901, was designed by Macon, GA, architect Alexander Blair III for Wallace E. McCaw, president of the soap and oil producing Macon Manufacturing Company. McCaw is credited with creating the vegetable shortening Crisco. The product is so closely associated with the house that legend says the pale yellow brick used on the exterior of the home was meant to mimic blocks of Crisco. The interior of the house had previously been divided into apartments and the goal of the rehabilitation was to bring it back as a single-family home while restoring decorative features that had been lost over time. Text from Georgia Trust, photos from real estate listing.
