Macon's Historic Hay House Featured in "The Originals"

Macon's spectacular historic house museum The Hay House will be featured on "The Originals" in a two-episode story arc starting Thursday, October 22 and concluding Thursday, October 29. The series, a spinoff of CW's "The Vampire Diaries" is in its third season, and while plot details are not known, we do know that the home appears toward the end of the 10/22 episode, and is featured extensively in the 10/29 episode. The show airs Thursday nights at 9 p.m. EST.

Construction of the 18,000 square foot mansion, also known as the Johnston-Felton-Hay House, began in 1855 for wealthy investor William Butler Johnston and his wife Anne, and concluded in 1859. Eventually a daughter married into the Felton family and the property was passed to them. In 1926 Parks Lee Hay, founder of the Banker’s Health & Life Insurance Company, purchased the estate and the Hay family owned the home until transferring it to the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation in 1977.

The property has been designated a National Historic Landmark and is open to the public Monday - Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets for the guided tours are $11. It is one of two historic house museums in the state operated by the Georgia Trust. The other is 1904's Rhodes Hall in Atlanta.