John Marlor (1789–1835) was an England-born, Charleston, South Carolina-raised master builder whose work in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia, capital of the state of Georgia from 1804 to 1868, combined several classical style elements to create the American architecture style known as "Milledgeville Federal", characterized by a fanlighted front entrances under two-story double-columned porticoes with cantilevered second story balcony, curved cantilevered staircases, and side-gabled roofs.
[1] Born February 11, 1789, in England, little is known about Marlor's early years, but it has been speculated that he was apprenticed to a builder or taught himself from house-builders' plan-books.
Marlor's reinterpretation of prevailing Georgian and Federal structures brought about an early classical revival in central Georgia architecture.
[2] As he gained experience, his signature architectural features became increasingly complex, as evidenced in his structures preserved in Milledgeville.
[1] Marlor died on October 13, 1835, in Milledgeville, where he is interred in Memory Hill Cemetery,[3] his tombstone featuring engraved builder's tools.