Sardis Methodist Church is a historic church northeast of Pine Grove off
Arkansas Highway 128
Highway 128 (AR 128, Ark. 128, and Hwy. 128) is a designation for four east–west state highways in Southwest Arkansas. One route of begins at Highway 7 in Sparkman and runs east to Highway 9 at Holly Springs. A second route of be ...
in
Sparkman, Arkansas
Sparkman is a city in Dallas County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 427 at the 2010 census, down from 586 in 2000.
History
Sparkman was established between 1911 and 1913 and was named after sawmill owner Lemuel "Pete" Sparkman. In 1 ...
. The single-story wood-frame church was built c. 1895, and is a well-preserved example of a vernacular rural church in
Dallas County Dallas County may refer to:
Places in the USA:
* Dallas County, Alabama, founded in 1818, the first county in the United States by that name
* Dallas County, Arkansas
* Dallas County, Iowa
* Dallas County, Missouri
* Dallas County, Texas, the nint ...
. The building features a cross-gable roof, an unusual configuration not seen on most of the county's rural churches, and has a pyramid-roofed tower with open belfry at its southwest corner.
The building was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1983.
See also
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References
Methodist churches in Arkansas
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Churches completed in 1895
Churches in Dallas County, Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places in Dallas County, Arkansas
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