{"nrhp_refnum":"08000355","name":"Tifton Residential Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly Bounded by 14th, Goff, & 2nd Sts.& Forrest Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tifton","county":"Tift County","state":"GA","lat":31.460365861000042,"lon":-83.5071286474001,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-04-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation","Landscape Architecture","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A primarily residential historic district north and northwest of downtown Tifton, the Tift County seat in south central Georgia, laid out on a grid around 1888-1890 on land owned by town founder Henry Harding Tift. It includes 628 contributing resources, mostly houses built from the late 1880s into the early 1950s.","why_significant":"The district holds most of Tifton's surviving intact historic residential development, with a wide range of house types and styles from Queen Anne to Craftsman, revival styles and ranch houses. It also reflects the town's growth from the timber industry to agriculture, and its role as a tourist stop along U.S. Highway 41, with landmark churches, schools, and Fulwood Park.","narrative":"Tifton's residential historic district covers the neighborhoods north and northwest of downtown, platted on a grid around 1888-1890 from land owned by town founder Henry Harding Tift. Blocks were divided into 100-by-200-foot lots with rear lanes, and the streets are an unusually wide 90 feet. The district holds 628 contributing resources, mostly houses built from the late 1880s to the early 1950s. Queen Anne houses with corner turrets stand near the oldest blocks on Love Avenue, while Craftsman bungalows are the most common style. Folk Victorian, Neoclassical and Colonial Revival, English Vernacular Revival, Prairie-influenced, American Small House and ranch examples also appear. Landmarks include several churches, the former high school and junior high school, a 1937 Coca-Cola Bottling Plant, and the 42-acre Fulwood Park. Tourist-related buildings along U.S. Highway 41 record the road's importance from the 1920s. The district illustrates Tifton's shift from timber to agriculture and its growth as a small Georgia city.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"T. Firth Lockwood, Jr. (First Baptist Church); Pringle and Smith (Coca-Cola Bottling Plant); Columbus W. Fulwood, Jr. (Fulwood Park arch)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Folk Victorian, Classical/Neoclassical Revival, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival (English Vernacular Revival), Bungalow/Craftsman, American Small House, Ranch house","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still largely residential, with some former houses converted to multi-family rentals or commercial uses; churches, a school, a park and a mortuary remain in use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.524804-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/08000355.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000355/eee3cc7722-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000355/eee3cc7722-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bubba73","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_at_424_Park_Ave_in_the_Tifton_Residential_Historic_District,_Tifton,_GA,_US.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bubba73</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_at_424_Park_Ave_in_the_Tifton_Residential_Historic_District,_Tifton,_GA,_US.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209691","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tifton_Residential_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105686220"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/tift-county/tifton-residential-historic-district-08000355/"}