The former First Church of Christ, Scientist, now the Little Rock Community Church, is a historic church building at 2000 South Louisiana Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a single-story Mission style building, designed by noted Arkansas architect John Parks Almand and completed in 1919. Characteristics of the Mission style include the low-pitch tile hip roof, overhanging eaves with exposed rafter ends, and smooth plaster walls. The building also has modest Classical features, found in pilaster capitals and medallions of plaster and terra cotta. The building is local significant for its architecture. It was built for the local Christian Science congregation, which in 1950 sold it to an Evangelical Methodist congregation. That congregation has since severed its association with the Evangelical Methodist movement, and is now known as the Little Rock Community Church.
The First United Methodist Church is a historic church building at Jefferson and Cross Streets in DeWitt, Arkansas. It is a two-story red brick structure, designed Thompson & Harding and built in 1923. It has a Classical Revival style portico supported by six unevenly spaced Tuscan columns. The triangular pediment is fully enclosed, with a central oculus window. The building is the third built for a congregation established in 1854-55, and the first built of brick.
John Parks Almand was an American architect who practiced in Arkansas from 1912 to 1962. Among other works, he designed the Art Deco Hot Springs Medical Arts Building, which was the tallest building in Arkansas from 1930 to 1958. Several of his works, including the Medical Arts Building and Little Rock Central High School, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Portland United Methodist Church is a historic church building at 300 N. Main St. in Portland, Arkansas The Craftsman style two story T-shaped building was built in 1924to a design by architect John Parks Almand. The building is faced in brick laid in a running bond pattern. The roof is ceramic tile, with broad overhanging eaves supported by distinctive triangular knee braces. The building is the largest and most prominent building in Portland's small downtown area.
Aiken's Tavern Historic District is a historic district in New Castle County, Delaware, comprising the historic center of the village of Glasgow. The district includes the site of Aiken's Tavern, an important landmark at the time of the American Revolutionary War. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
The Camp Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church on Arkansas Highway 9 in Camp, Arkansas. The church was built in 1878 to serve the Camp Methodist Congregation; it was constructed by local carpenters in a vernacular style with Gothic Revival features. A school operated in the church building until 1914. In the 1980s, church services were briefly cancelled due to the shrinking congregation; former church members rehabilitated the church in 1983, after which services began again. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 9, 1997.
The Parkdale Methodist Church is a historic church on S. Church Street in Parkdale, Arkansas. Built out of rubble-faced and smooth concrete blocks that were shaped on site in 1926, it is an architecturally distinctive Plain-Traditional building with Classical Revival elements. The walls are lined with stained glass windows, and the entry is made through a recessed porch supported by Tuscan columns.
Sardis Methodist Church is a historic church northeast of Pine Grove off Arkansas Highway 128 in Sparkman, Arkansas. The single-story wood frame church was built c. 1895, and is a well-preserved example of a vernacular rural church in Dallas County. 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.
First United Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church at the junction of Prince and Clifton Street in Conway, Arkansas. It is a single story brick building with Classical Revival style, set on a raised foundation. The building is basically rectangular in shape, but its main roof is cruciform, with gables on all for sides, and a dome at the center. The front has a fully pedimented six-column Classical portico, with an entablature and dentillated pediment with a small round window at its center. The church was designed by George Kramer of New York City, and built in 1913 for a Methodist congregation founded in 1871.
The Old Bethel Methodist Church, also known as the Old Bethel School, Church, & Cemetery, is a historic Methodist church, school and cemetery in rural Greene County, Arkansas. It is located on Highway 358,& Greene 712 Road in Paragould, Arkansas. It is a modest single-story wood frame structure, built in 1901, and standing next to a cemetery established in 1882. The first person buried here was Moss Widner in 1882. The building served the small community of Finch as not just a church, but also as a school, and was vacated in 1941. It was restored in the 1970s by a group of local concerned citizens, and is occasionally used for services.
The First Methodist Church is a historic church at the junction of Chestnut and 4th Streets, NW corner in Lewisville, Arkansas. The single story brick building was designed by Witt, Seibert & Company of Texarkana and built in 1913. It is distinctive as one of the only church buildings to survive from Lewisville's period of economic prosperity during the lumber boom, and as an Akron Plan design with Classical Revival features.
Imboden Methodist Episcopal Church, South, now the Imboden United Methodist Church, is a historic church at 113 Main Street in Imboden, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick building with Classical Revival styling. Designed by the Reverend James Glover, a former building contractor, it was built in 1922 for a congregation established in 1884, and is the city's finest example of Classical Revival architecture. It has a roughly cruciform plan, with a front porch supported by square posts, and topped by a parapet similar to that ringing the main roof.
Emmet Methodist Church is a historic church at 209 S. Walnut in Emmet, Arkansas. Built between 1917 & 1918, it is one of the few Akron Plan church buildings in the state, and it is a fine local example of Colonial Revival architecture. Its main entrance is highlighted by a curved portico supported by four columns topped with simple curved capitals. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. and it serves a congregation which was organized in 1855.
The First Presbyterian Church Manse is a historic church parsonage at 415 North Maple Street in North Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick-faced structure, with a clipped-gable roof that has wide eaves with Craftsman-style exposed rafter ends and large brackets. A porch extends across the front facade, supported at the ends by brick piers, with a low brick balustrade on either side of the entry stairs. The house was built in 1927 as the official residence of the North Little Rock First Presbyterian Church's pastor. It was used to house ministers until the 1960s, and has since served a variety of functions, including youth center and law office.
The Frenchman's Mountain Methodist Episcopal Church—South and Cemetery is a historic church in Cato, Arkansas. Located at the junction of Cato, Frenchman Mountain, and Camp Joseph Robinson Roads, it is a single-story wood frame structure, built in 1880 as a two-story building to house both religious services and the local Masonic lodge. The upper story, housing the lodge facilities, was removed in 1945. The congregation was organized in 1872 in Cato, the oldest community in northern Pulaski County. The church declined after most of the land in the area was taken to establish Camp Joseph T. Robinson, with the church now enclaved within its bounds.
The Goddard United Methodist Church formerly the Dodson Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, is a historic church at 1922 Dodson Avenue in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The church building is an imposing Late Gothic stone structure, built in 1930 to a design by the local architectural firm of Haralson and Nelson. The congregation for which it was built was founded in 1908, and worshipped in a wood-frame church at this site prior to the construction of the present edifice. In October 1945 the church was renamed the Goddard Memorial Methodist Church in honor of a recent pastor, Dr. O. E. Goddard. The church complex includes, in addition to the church, a children's building, fellowship hall, and office building.
The Williford Methodist Church is a historic church at the northwest corner of Ferguson and Hail Streets on the outskirts of Williford, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood frame structure, with a gable roof and stone foundation. It has Gothic Revival pointed-arch windows and a small belfry with a pyramidal roof. The interior contains original pews and pulpit. Built c. 1910, the building is locally notable for its distinctive vernacular Gothic Revival architecture, and as the first purpose-built church building in the community.
The Central Methodist Episcopal Church South, now the First United Methodist Church, is a historic church building at 1100 Central Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is a single story masonry structure with a restrained Gothic Revival exterior, and elements of the Carpenter Gothic on the interior. It was designed by John Gaisford of Memphis, Tennessee, and was built in 1914-15 for a congregation established in 1852. The building is a distinctive landmark on the outskirts of the city's downtown area.
The First United Methodist Church is a historic church at 723 Center Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a large brick building, designed by Frank W. Gibb and built in 1899-1900. It is one of the city's finest examples of Romanesque Revival architecture, with square towers at its corners, and its predominantly smooth brick exterior contrasted by rusticated granite trim. The congregation, founded in 1831, is the oldest Methodist congregation in the city, and the mother congregation of many of its other Methodist establishments. Its senior pastor is the Rev. David Freeman.
The First United Methodist Church, originally the Methodist Episcopal Church, South is a historic church building at 205 North Elm Street in Paris, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick building with Late Gothic Revival styling, built between 1917 and 1928 for a congregation founded in the early 1870s. It is the congregation's fourth sanctuary, its first three having succumbed to fire. It has a gabled roof with corner sections and a tower topped by crenellated parapets.
