Sidney Lanier Cottage House Museum

Name: Sidney Lanier Cottage House Museum
Address: 935 High Street, Macon, GA, 31201, US
Telephone: (478) 743-3851
Price range: $$

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Furthermore, Lanier received a federal commission to compose a Cantata for the Centenniel celebration of the United States in 1876 in Philadelphia.

The Sidney Lanier Cottage House Museum, located at 935 High Street in Macon, Ga., is the birthplace of noted poet, musician and soldier, Sidney Lanier (1842-1881). Perhaps best known for his poems "The Marshes of Glynn" and "Song of the Chattahoochee," Lanier was also a renowned musician, as he was first chair flute in the Peabody Symphony Orchestra in Baltimore for seven seasons. Please join us f

or a guided tour of the museum, where you will learn more about Sidney Lanier and view items from his life.

08/13/2018

Join us tomorrow (August 14th) for our next Salon! Mercer professor David Davis will be speaking about his new book: World War I and Southern Modernism. This book explores "the impact of the Great War on southern writing". The event will begin with a reception at 5:30pm and the program will begin at 6:00pm. Salons take place at the Sidney Lanier Cottage (935 High St.) and are open to the public. Admission is $5 for non-members and $3 for students. Salons are free for Historic Macon members

12/12/2017

Just in time for Christmas! Macon tea towels and wine goblets are now available for pre-order. Tea towels will be available for purchase or pick up at our annual Cottage Christmas event on Thursday, December 14th from 5:00pm-7:00pm. The wine goblets will be available for pick up around the 20th (official date TBD). Contact Caity at Historic Macon Foundation to reserve your tea towels and wine goblets or if you have any questions.

03/25/2016

The Sidney Lanier Cottage House Museum will be closed Saturday, March 26 in observance of Easter. We hope everyone has a happy and safe weekend!

03/24/2016

Our fearless docent Dorothy gives a tour to the Road Scholars this morning. Such a great group visiting !

05/15/2015

The Sidney Lanier Cottage will be closed Saturday, May 16.

12/18/2014

Thanks Macon, Georgia: Song & Soul of the South for featuring the Cottage decorated for the holidays in winter's e-newsletter!

11/13/2014

We’re going for a record -the most donations during GA Gives Day’s Power Hour from noon to 1PM! Help HMF be winner by donating from noon to 1PM TODAY. https://www.gagivesday.org/c/GGD/a/historicmacon

10/26/2014

The Rose Hill Ramble is in an hour! Meet us at the Madison entrance (the Riverside Cemetery entrance) of Rose Hill at 2PM for a tour of the cemetery.

10/23/2014

Don't miss the tales of Anjette Lyles and Chester Burge at this weekend. You read all about their lives in "Whisper to the Black Candle" and "A Peculiar Tribe of People", both available in the Sideporch gift shop.

Address

935 High Street
Macon, GA
31201

Telephone

(478) 743-3851

Website

http://sidneylaniercottage.org/

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