Southern Culture is unique. The region’s music, food, and art traditions are distinctive. Great Southern architecture adds to what makes the South the South. See and experience Eatonton’s Southern architecture that will transport you back to a particular place and time. Enjoy the Self-Guided Historic Home Tour featuring over 100 historic homes and buildings at your leisure.

The architecture ranges from the well-known Antebellum and Victorian-era structures to many examples of Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Folk Victorian, and Gothic Revival homes. Antebellum architecture is primarily characterized by Georgian, Neo-classical, and Greek Revival-style homes and mansions. These plantation houses were built in the southern American states roughly the thirty years before the American Civil War, approximately between the 1830s to 1860s. Since many grand homes are on Madison Avenue in downtown Eatonton, it is an easy walk or drive.

The tour will allow you to explore more about the community of Eatonton and its past. As you wander down Madison Avenue, you’ll see homes and historic commercial buildings surrounded by beautiful gardens that are a joy to explore during any season. Of course, my favorite season is the spring, when everything is in bloom, and Christmas with beautifully decorated homes makes you feel like you are part of a Christmas card. But, I love the fall and, yes… even the winter, as I said, an experience for all seasons.