{"nrhp_refnum":"90000572","name":"Arlington Methodist Episcopal Church, South","other_names":["Arlington United Methodist Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Pioneer Rd. at Dogwood Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Arlington","county":"Calhoun County","state":"GA","lat":31.439306341000076,"lon":-84.72717324599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-04-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A red brick Romanesque Revival church at Pioneer Road and Dogwood Drive in downtown Arlington, Calhoun County, Georgia, completed in 1908 and designed by T. Firth Lockwood, Sr. of Columbus.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is a good, very intact example of turn-of-the-century Romanesque Revival design for a church in a small south Georgia town. It also uses the Akron plan, which added flexible smaller rooms to a traditional layout. It is the work of regional architect T. Firth Lockwood, Sr., and is the oldest church building in Arlington.","narrative":"Built in 1908, this red brick church in downtown Arlington, Georgia, was designed by Columbus architect T. Firth Lockwood, Sr. in the Romanesque Revival style. Two front towers of different sizes flank an entrance set on a diagonal axis, and round-arched openings carry brick drip moldings. Inside, the sanctuary keeps its original pews, art glass windows and an octagonal exposed-beam ceiling with varnished tongue-and-groove paneling. A reception area beside the sanctuary, divided from it by original moveable panel doors, opens onto several Sunday school rooms in the Akron plan arrangement. The congregation dates to 1873 and first built a wooden church in 1876 before moving to this site. The building is valued as a very intact example of a major small-town church and as a work of an architect known for churches, courthouses and schools in southwest Georgia. It remains the oldest church building in the city and is still in regular use by the congregation.","period_of_significance":"1908-1909","architect_builder":"T. Firth Lockwood, Sr. of Columbus, Ga. (architect); H. A. Granger (contractor)","architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as an active church, the only Methodist congregation in Arlington, with very few changes to the main building.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.13975-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/90000572.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000572/7508bcd4d7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000572/7508bcd4d7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Michael Rivera","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arlington_United_Methodist_Church,_Georgia.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Rivera</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arlington_United_Methodist_Church,_Georgia.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207191","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_United_Methodist_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29094966"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/calhoun-county/arlington-methodist-episcopal-church-south-90000572/"}