Tifton Residential Historic District

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,{{efn-ua|U.S. 41 runs east-west on 12th Street and north-south on Love Ave.}} which was – and still is – a major tourism route between Georgia and Florida.{{cite report|type=none|url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209691 |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Tifton Residential Historic District |publisher=National Archives|author1=Gretchen Brock |author2=Robert A. Ciucevich |date=December 20, 2007 |accessdate=February 19, 2021}} Includes accompanying 95 photos from 2005, and detailed map at very end. ({{NationalArchivesNote}} Text-only version published by National Park Service also available at {{NRHP url|id=08000355}}.)

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.

The listing includes 624 contributing buildings, a contributing structure, a contributing site, and two contributing objects on {{convert|614|acre|km2}}.

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/Three-Graces-Manor-133060868662/ |title=Three Graces Manor|publisher=Facebook|accessdate=February 19, 2021}} 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.
• {{anchor|First Baptist Church (1906, Tifton, Georgia)}}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 {{convert|42|acre|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.).

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|Stone entrance arch (1934), Fulwood Park (1917)

| File:Tifton Residential Historic District, house on Love Ave, Tifton, GA, US (03).jpg

| House at 1208 Love Ave

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| House at 414 Park Ave

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| House at 602 Park Ave

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| House at 601 Park Ave

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| House at 424 Park Ave

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| House at 614 Park Ave

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| House at 1010 Love Ave (now a business)

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| House at 1012 Love Ave

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| House at 1210 Love Ave

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| House at 1214 Love Ave

|File:Charles A. Kent Administrative Building (Old Tifton High School).JPG|Old Tifton High School

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|Old Tifton City Hall (1950)

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| First Baptist Church (1906), 404 Love Ave

|File:First Presbyterian Church, Tifton.jpg|First Presbyterian Church (1911), 217 N. Park Ave.

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| Tifton Primitive Baptist Church (1917), 401 Tift Ave

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| "Three Graces Manor" (1892), 401 Love Ave

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|Coca-Cola building, Tifton (SE corner)

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|Coca-Cola building, Tifton (East face)

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• Tifton Commercial Historic District

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{{National Register of Historic Places}}

Category:Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state)

Category:National Register of Historic Places in Tift County, Georgia

Category:Queen Anne architecture in Georgia (U.S. state)

Category:American Craftsman architecture in Georgia (U.S. state)

Category:Colonial Revival architecture in Georgia (U.S. state)