Tifton Residential Historic District

The majority of the district is residential. The site is roughly bounded by 14th St., Goff, & 2nd Sts. & Forrest Ave.^[1] 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,^[A] which was – and still is – a major tourism route between Georgia and Florida.^[2]

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 Craftsman architectural styles.^[2]

The listing includes 624 contributing buildings, a contributing structure, a contributing site, and two contributing objects on 614 acres (2.48 km²).^[1]

Significant structures on the property include:

• the former Pope House-Lankford Manor (1892), 401 Love Avenue, in recent years the Three Graces Manor bed and breakfast.^[3] Built as a single-family house, it was converted into a boarding house and restaurant in 1934, with enclosure of its two-story porch. Includes Queen Anne-stylistic elements including use of pedimented gables and decorative wood shingles.^[2]
• Tifton Coca-Cola Bottling Plant (1937), Beaux-Arts in style, designed by architects Pringle and Smith^[2]
• 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.^[2]
• 1906 First Baptist Church (1906), at 404 Love Avenue, a brick, Romanesque Revival-style church, with an arcaded entrance, round-arched stained-glass windows, and two square corner towers. Designed by architect T. Firth Lockwood, Jr. (1894–1963).^[2] (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 rose window.^[2]
• First Presbyterian Church (1911), 217 N. Park Avenue, brick Gothic Revival.-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, Colonial Revival, with "a pedimented portico with modillions and full height Doric columns."^[2]
• Fulwood Park, a 42 acres (17 ha) 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.).^[2]

• Tifton Commercial Historic District

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