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The Macon County Historical Society was incorporated on
May 26, 1937. In January of 2007, the City of Macon entered into an
agreement to provide the Blees Annex Building to the Macon County
Historical Society to become the future Macon County Museum. The building commonly known
as the "Blees Annex" was actually the gymnasium of the Blees
Military Academy and was completed in 1900. The Blees Military
Academy was built by Col. Frederick Wilhem Victor Blees, and was
considered to be the West Point of the Midwest. The three story brick building is Romanesque
in style. R.G. Kirsch was the architect of the building. The building
was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. After the
death of Col Blees, it became the Still-Hildreth Osteopathic Sanatorium. This
was the world's first osteopathic sanatorium. The National
Guard was the last group to inhabit the building. The building has not been in
use for several years, and volunteers are working hard on interior renovations
to create a grand museum as well as a genealogy site. Each town and village, even those that no
longer exist, but only in memory, will be well represented.
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