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| Hay House - Palace of the South |
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934 Georgia Avenue
Macon, GA 31201
Phone: (478) 742-8155
Fax: (478) 745-4277
Website: http://www.hayhouse.org
Email: hayhouse@bellsouth.net
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10 am - 4 pm; Sunday 1 pm - 4 pm
Tours on the hour with the last tour at 3 pm
Closed Sundays in January, February, July & August.
Rate Information:
| Adults: | $8.00
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| Students: | $4.00
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Seniors: | $7.00
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Military $7 • Children under age 6 Free
Georgia Trust members Free • Group Rates Available
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In the mid-1800s, William Butler Johnston was the keeper of the
Confederate treasury, but the mansion he built is the real treasure he
left behind. Inspired by the palazzos of Florence and Rome during a
three-year honeymoon in Europe, Johnston and his wife, Anne, spent four
years building an 18,000-square-foot Italian Renaissance Revival
mansion that is now a National Historic Landmark.
Considered the most advanced antebellum building in America for its
style, craftsmanship and technological innovations, the magnificent
seven-level Hay House has been featured on A&E's "America's
Castles." It boasts beautiful 18th-Century furnishings, Italian
Carerra marble fireplaces, some of the country's finest examples of
marbleized and trompe l'oeil finishes, a music room with a 30-foot
clerestory ceiling, exquisite plaster work with 24-karat gold leafing
and spectacular stained glass.
The mansion is called the Hay House for its last owners and residents,
the P.L. Hay family, who conveyed the property in 1977 to The Georgia
Trust for Historic Preservation, the country's largest statewide
non-profit preservation organization.
Hay House is available for functions and guided tours. A museum shop
features Victorian inspired gift items; decorative art glass; authentic
North Georgia pottery; books of regional interest including Civil War
history, history of architectural design and decorative arts and
cookbooks; reproductions of architectural remnants such as finials from
iron fences and brackets; and Georgia food products. Of special
interest are pewter reproductions of mint julep cups designed by Edmund
Johnston, brother of Hay House builder William Butler Johnson. The
Johnston brothers jointly owned a jewelry business in Macon.
Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday 10 am - 4 pm; Sunday 1 pm - 4 pm. Tours are on the hour with the last tour at 3 pm.
Open daily during the Cherry Blossom Festival and December (except Christmas & New Year's Eve)
Closed Sundays in January, February, July & August.
Groups:
Open on Mondays for bus tours and school groups by appointment. Groups of 20 or more $6 per person.
School Groups K-12/College - $2.50 - $3, one chaperone per 10 students Free, additional chaperones $6 each
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