Tifton Commercial Historic District, in Tifton in

Tift County, Georgia Tift County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 40,118. The county seat is Tifton. Tift County comprises the Tifton, Georgia Micropolitan Statistical Area. ...

, is a historic district that 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 ...

(NRHP) in 1986 and expanded in 1994. The original listing was portions of 10 blocks including buildings from the 1890s to the late 1930s, most built of brick. with The original district was in size and included two groups of building in areas on the north and south sides of east–west

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, to the east of the north–south Southern Railway line. It included 57 contributing buildings and one contributing structure. Notable resources are: * Tift County Courthouse (1912), Beaux Arts in style, designed by William A. Edwards, separately NRHP-listed in 1980 *Lockeby Building (1937), deemed "a fine local example" of

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

with "its cast-stone vertical banding" *Tift Theatre (1937),

Art Moderne Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s. Inspired by aerodynamic design, it emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements. In industrial design ...

, with a multi-colored

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facade *Myon Hotel (1906), now the Tifton City Hall, "massive", with three stories, with

Georgian Revival Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830. It is named after the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover— George I, George II, Ge ...

influence, designed by Montgomery, Alabama architect B.B. Smith *former U.S. Post Office (1914), the town's library by 1985,

Renaissance Revival Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range o ...

, design credited to

Oscar Wenderoth Oscar Wenderoth (1871–1938) was an American architect who served as director of the Office of the Supervising Architect from 1912 to 1915. He is identified as the architect of many government buildings built during that period, including some li ...

*former Bank of Tifton (1917), a C&S Bank in 1985, "a fine example of the Neoclassical style", also designed by William A. Edwards *former Union Station (1916), the Chamber of Commerce in 1985, in long, low

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-influenced style *Twin Brick Warehouses (1922 and 1925), on former site of Tift's sawmill, at the east edge of the district, landmarks "by virtue of their immense size (approximately each) and their easily recognizable stepped-parapet fronts" Three buildings had received Preliminary Certifications of Significance from the National Register Programs Division of the National Park Service Southeast Regional Office: *214 East Second Street (December 6, 1983); *the Lockeby Building, corner of Third and Main (February 27, 1985), and * Myon Hotel (February 27, 1985). The amendment in 1994 expanded the district by to include four blocks of mostly one- and two-story commercial buildings, including warehouses. It added 28 contributing buildings. The Masonic Lodge building in this area is the only three-story building in the increase. The amendment in 1994 also recognized

contributing building In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...

status for the Bowen Building, an

building built c. 1900 but renovated extensively in 1937 after a fire, which is located at the southwest corner of Third Street and South Main Street. In 1994, the corner tenant in the building was a drug store, and the other portion was a Christian bookstore. with (see photo captions pages 19-20 in text document)

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File:TiftonCityHall.JPG, Myon Hotel (current City Hall) File:Tifton Commercial Historic District 1, Tifton, GA, US.JPG, Masonic Lodge File:Tifton Commercial Historic District 2, Tifton, GA, US.JPG File:Tifton Commercial Historic District 3, Tifton, GA, US.JPG File:Tifton Commercial Historic District 4, Tifton, GA, US.JPG File:Tifton Commercial Historic District 5, Tifton, GA, US.JPG File:Tifton Commercial Historic District 6, Tifton, GA, US.JPG File:Tifton Commercial Historic District 7, Tifton, GA, US.JPG File:Tifton Commercial Historic District 8, Tifton, GA, US.JPG File:Tifton Commercial Historic District 9, Tifton, GA, US.JPG File:Tifton Commercial Historic District 10, Tifton, GA, US.JPG

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SHOULD ADD NEWER REFNUM and ADDRESS and perhaps more TO NRHP listings page for the county, which has/shows: , address=Roughly Bounded by 14th, Goff, 2nd Sts and Forrest Ave. , city= Tifton , county=

, date=2008-04-30 , lat=31.459633 , lon=-83.507 ADD WHAT ELELMENTS IN Tifton Commercial Historic District (original) had architecture = Chicago, Late Victorian, The Commercial Style.

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* {{National Register of Historic Places Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) 1890s architecture in the United States Geography of Tift County, Georgia National Register of Historic Places in Tift County, Georgia Stepped gables

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