When Ronnie Jones and Glenn Blasingame bought their distinctive home on a quiet Warner Robins side street in 2006, they were fulfilling a long-held dream: to own a house built in the innovative post-World War II style that came to be called mid-century modern.
Designed by the late Macon-based architect Bernard A. “Bill” Webb Jr., the house was built in 1956 for a prominent Warner Robins physician and his wife. Jones and Blasimgame are the fourth owners.
Large, light-filled rooms that flow into one another, soaring ceilings, angled roof lines, entire walls of floor-to-ceiling glass that seem to bring the outdoors right inside – these were innovative elements of 1950s and 1960s architecture that intrigued Webb.
Much of that new architectural spirit had begun in Europe in the 1940s, a product of the German Bauhaus School and other forward-looking architectural designers. With World War II looming, many of them fled to the United States, bringing along those fresh ideas. Like other budding American architects, Webb embraced the new concepts, combining them with an elegance that emanated from his own talents.
Jones and Blasingame made a surprising discovery on a closet shelf in their new home: more than a dozen poster-sized photographs taken as construction was under way, plus Webb’s rendering of the house plan. They found the interior of the house had remained exactly as Webb designed it, and they have made few
