O’Neal School Neighborhood Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Colonial Revival House, Cordele
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Italian Renaissance Revival House, Cordele
This is a fine example of the Renaissance Revival architecture that was popular in the first decades of the 20th century.
O’Neal School Neighborhood Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Neoclassical House, Cordele
I believe this well-proportioned house is now home to a law office.
O’Neal School Neighborhood Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Queen Anne House, Cordele
This house has been restored in recent years and the effort has been recognized by the local historic preservation society.
O’Neal School Neighborhood Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Stone-Sided Cottage, Cordele
This is a common mid-20th century house type but the stone siding makes it one of my favorites in Cordele.
O’Neal School Neighborhood Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Victorian Commercial Block, Tifton
This Victorian block may have originally been a wholesale grocery business; a fading mural on the side identifies it as such. It’s right across the street from the historic courthouse.
Tifton Commercial Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Historic Storefront, Tifton
This has always been a favorite Tifton building of mine. R. L. Brown writes: This building was known as Tiff’s Garage. See photo in the Arcadia Publishing’s book on Tifton. The overhang has been removed.
I have an antique postcard of this structure and there are significant enough differences in the facade to require further investigation. A narrow green Ludowici Tile awning [for lack of a better word] wrapped around the top of the building and decorative medallions on the windows weren’t originally present. Also, the windows themselves appear wider on the postcard. This has to be one of the finest commercial garages, in an architectural sense, surviving in South Georgia, if its identity can be confirmed.
Tifton Commercial Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Buck House, 1905, Tifton
This beautiful house is best known today as the Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals. Their website notes: The Buck House, built in 1905, had an interesting history of its own. When the original owners were all killed in a series of tragic accidents, the property passed to the Mellon family. Eventually, the Buck House became a dilapidated apartment building. Bowen-Donaldson’s building improvement, however, made the quality of the house’s structure and surroundings better than ever.
It has been a bit of a tradition in many small Georgia towns for funeral businesses to move into and restore large historical homes. The Buck House in Tifton is a great example.
Tifton Commercial Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
First Baptist Church, 1906, Tifton
Prominent architect T. F. Lockwood designed First Baptist Church in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. Henry Miller was the pastor at the time.
There have been numerous expansions to the original church over the years.
Tifton Commercial Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1900, Tifton
This was the first brick church built in Tifton, and served the congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for generations. When they moved to a larger facility in 1952, it served numerous congregations over the following years. The Tift County Development Authority purchased it in 1985, to protect it from vandals and deterioration. In 1997, the Tifton Council for the Arts saw an opportunity and renovated the church into a gallery space and cultural museum. It is now known as the Syd Blackmarr Arts Center.
Tifton Commercial Historic District, National Register of Historic Places