# Tifton Residential Historic District

The Tifton Residential Historic District, in Tifton, Georgia, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places 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 Georgia and Florida.
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.

## Structures

The listing includes 624 contributing buildings, a contributing structure, a contributing site, and two contributing objects on 614 acres (2.48 km$^2$).
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. 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.
* Tifton Coca-Cola 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, 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). (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.
* 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."
* 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.).
* Stone entrance arch (1934), Fulwood Park (1917)
* House at 1208 Love Ave
* House at 414 Park Ave
* House at 602 Park Ave
* House at 601 Park Ave
* House at 424 Park Ave
* House at 614 Park Ave
* House at 1010 Love Ave (now a business)
* House at 1012 Love Ave
* House at 1210 Love Ave
* House at 1214 Love Ave
* Old Tifton High School
* Old Tifton City Hall (1950)
* First Baptist Church (1906), 404 Love Ave
* First Presbyterian Church (1911), 217 N. Park Ave.
* Tifton Primitive Baptist Church (1917), 401 Tift Ave
* "Three Graces Manor" (1892), 401 Love Ave
* Coca-Cola building, Tifton (SE corner)
* Coca-Cola building, Tifton (East face)