 Within a year it was purchased by the state of Georgia to become the Governor's mansion for which purpose it survived until 1923.He made over $30,000 on the deal and immediately built his next home on the south end of that same block (where the old Macy's building stands today).He won nearly 100% of the December 1871 mayoral election as a Democrat which put an end to the brief surge of Radical Republican power in the city.