The Mayor and City Council of Macon sold the land that both of these two houses sit on to A.E. Barnes on June 2, 1906, and the parcel has remained one unit ever since. Designed and built as duplexes, countless tenants have resided in these buildings. Eventually, A.E. Barnes III, noted Macon businessman and real estate developer, inherited the property, and he sold the property for $5 to his son Waddell Barnes on November 2, 1972. The property remained in the Barnes family until July 29, 2015 when it was sold to the Macon-Bibb County Hospital Authority.&amp;nbsp;  The threat to the A.E. Barnes Duplexes is pending demolition. In June 2017, the Hospital Authority offered the buildings and a nearby lot to HMF if we could move the houses by March 2018.&amp;nbsp; Additionally, they offered to donate the expense they would incur on demolition, which is estimated to be $20,000.&amp;nbsp; Unfortunately, the cost to relocate the houses is estimated at over $100,000 per house.  Given the impracticality and high cost of relocating the masonry duplexes, HMF hopes to continue working with Navicent to pursue other options to reuse these buildings in situ.