The Tifton Residential Historic District, in

Tifton, Georgia Tifton is a city in and the county seat of Tift County, Georgia, United States. The population was 17,045 at the 2020 census. The area's public schools are administered by the Tift County School District. Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College has ...

, is a

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which was listed on the

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in 2008.

History and description

The majority of the district is residential. The site is roughly bounded by 14th St., Goff, & 2nd Sts. & Forrest Ave. Gas stations, boarding houses, motels, and restaurants were built in the district from the mid-1920s through the 1950s to serve U.S. Highway 41, which was – and still is – a major tourism route between

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and

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. Includes accompanying 95 photos from 2005, and detailed map at very end. ( Text-only version published by

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also available at .) The district was deemed historically significant because it is a "good example of a historic white residential area" from the 20th century. It also contains "an excellent collection" of Queen Anne and

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architectural styles.

Structures

The listing includes 624

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, a

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, a

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, and two

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on . Significant structures on the property include: *the former Pope House-Lankford Manor (1892), 401 Love Avenue, in recent years the Three Graces Manor

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. Built as a single-family house, it was converted into a

boarding house A boarding house is a house (frequently a family home) in which lodging, lodgers renting, rent one or more rooms on a nightly basis and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months, or years. The common parts of the house are maintained, and ...

and restaurant in 1934, with enclosure of its two-story porch. Includes Queen Anne-stylistic elements including use of

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gables and decorative wood shingles. *Tifton

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Bottling Plant (1937), Beaux-Arts in style, designed by architects Pringle and Smith *Tifton Telephone Exchange Building (1917–24) *former Tifton City Hall (1950), 127 Central Avenue North *the former Tifton High School (c.1917) and its gymnasium and vocational building, 225 Tift Avenue North. *1906 First Baptist Church (1906), at 404 Love Avenue, a brick,

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-style church, with an arcaded entrance, round-arched stained-glass windows, and two square corner towers. Designed by architect

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(1894–1963). (Or, more likely, by T. Firth Lockwood, Sr. (1868–1920)) *First Baptist Church (1961), also at 404 Love Avenue, stone and brick veneered, with a large

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. *First Presbyterian Church (1911), 217 N. Park Avenue, brick

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an Architectural style, architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half ...

.-style church with overhanging eaves, exposed rafters, stained glass, pointed-arch doors and windows, and brick buttresses. *Tifton Primitive Baptist Church (1917), 401 Tift Avenue North, designed by Tifton architect C.W. Fulwood, Jr.; brick Gothic Revival. *First United Methodist Church (1952), at E. 12th Street and Central Avenue, brick,

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, with "a pedimented

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with

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and full height Doric columns." * Fulwood Park, a city park, including a stone arched entrance (1934) erected by the Tifton Garden Club in honor of former mayor Columbus W. Fulwood, Sr. (with entrance designed by Columbus W. Fulwood, Jr.).

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* {{National Register of Historic Places Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) National Register of Historic Places in Tift County, Georgia Queen Anne architecture in Georgia (U.S. state) American Craftsman architecture in Georgia (U.S. state) Colonial Revival architecture in Georgia (U.S. state)

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