Lee's Chapel Church and Masonic Hall is a historic Masonic building in rural northern Independence County, Arkansas. It is located on Sandtown Road, about 8 miles (13 km) east of Cushman. It is a two-story gable-roofed structure, built out of concrete blocks resting on a poured concrete foundation. The roof is shingled, and topped by a small belfry. It was built in 1946 as a joint project of the Lee's Chapel Methodist Church and Montgomery Lodge No. 360. The lodge subsequently moved to Cave City.
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.
The Council Grove Methodist Church is a historic church on Osage Mills Road in Osage Mills, Arkansas. It is a small single-story wood-frame structure with a steeply pitched gable roof. Its cornerboards have plain capitals, and its main entrance is sheltered by a shed-roof hood supported by brackets. Built c. 1890, it is a fine local example of vernacular rural church architecture.
Mt. Carmel Methodist Church is a historic church in rural Dallas County, Arkansas, near the hamlet of Jacinto. It is located northwest of the county seat Fordyce, on County Road 113 just east of Arkansas Highway 9. It is set in a clearing near several other small frame churches. It is also a frame structure, built c. 1900, that is set apart from other rural churches in the county by its use of Gothic Revival pointed-arch windows. These windows are topped by slightly projecting triangular hoods, heightening the prominence of the Gothic points and relieving the otherwise plain side facades.
Mt. Zion Methodist Church is a historic church in rural Dallas County, Arkansas. The church is located on County Road 407, roughly 2.5 miles northeast of Carthage. The wood frame clapboarded structure was built c. 1910, and is virtually unaltered since its construction. The main facade has two doors, and features very simple vernacular styling. The church is notable for its well-preserved interior.
Prosperity Baptist Church is a historic church on Arkansas Highway 8 West in the rural community of Ramsey, Arkansas, located in central Dallas County. The single-story Plain Traditional wood-frame church was built in 1904, with a major addition in 1945 giving it its present T shape. It is a gable roof structure resting on a foundation of concrete piers and petrified wood. The church was built on land purchased from the Fordyce Lumber Company by a congregation organized in 1902. It is the only surviving building from Ramsey's early days.
First United Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church at the junction of Prince and Clifton Street in Conway, Arkansas. It is a two 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 W. 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 original Bethel Methodist Church was constructed in 1880, a small, onestory, white frame church. In 1900, a storm destroyed this building and in 1901 an almost identical building replaced the original structure. George Russell, a local carpenter, built the building using native materials of cypress and pine. It measures 20 feet by 40 feet and has a high pitched roof covered by tin. Exterior walls are covered with six inch beveled pine siding, while interior walls and ceiling are beaded pine wall board. Adjacent to it is a cemetery that dates to 1886. 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 Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic church at 895 Oak Street in Batesville, Arkansas. It is a single-story sandstone structure, with a gable roof and a projecting square tower at the front. The tower rises in stone to a hipped skirt, above which is a wood-frame belfry, which is topped by a shallow-pitch pyramidal roof. The main entrance is set in the base of the tower, inside a round-arch opening. Built in 1881, it is the oldest surviving church building in the city.
The Calico Rock Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic former church building at 101 W. 1st in Calico Rock, Arkansas, just north of the Calico Rock Historic District. It is a single story brick structure, built in 1923–24 with Colonial Revival and Craftsman features. It has a front-gable roof with large Craftsman brackets and exposed rafters, with hip-roofed chancel and transept ends. The main entrance is sheltered by a gable-roofed porch supported by brick posts. The building served as home to a local Methodist congregation until c. 2007.
The Philadelphia Methodist Church is a historic church in rural central Izard County, Arkansas, USA. It is located on County Road 15, northeast of Melbourne near the small community of Larkin, which was originally known as Philadelphia. It is a simple wood-frame structure with a gable roof, and rests on a stone foundation. Built in 1858, it is believed to be the oldest church in the county, and one of the few antebellum era churches left in the state.
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.
The Carolina Methodist Church is a historic church in rural Nevada County, Arkansas, United States, about 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Rosston, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Bigelow Methodist Episcopal Church, South is a historic church west of the junction of Volman and Emma Streets in Bigelow, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood-frame structure with a gabled roof and weatherboard siding. It has a slightly project entry vestibule, with a double-door entry topped by a single-pane square window. Above this a flared roof section transitions to a square tower, which straddles across the end of the main roof and is topped by a gabled roof. The eaves of all roofs show exposed rafter ends in the Craftsman style. It was built about 1908, at a time when the small town was undergoing a boom due to the lumber industry. The church is one of the few surviving buildings from that period.
Mount Pleasant Methodist Church is historic Methodist church in Waldron, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, originally built in 1891 on land donated by Joseph Self, a locally prominent farmer. The church is finished in weatherboard, and has a steeply pitched gable roof, with a bell tower at the front (north) end. A shed-roof addition extends to the south (rear) of the building. The interior features a distinctive gambrel ceiling, finished in flush pine boards painted white.
The Williford Methodist Church is a historic church at the northwest corner of Ferguson and Hail Streets in the middle 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.
Smyrna Methodist Church is a historic church in rural White County, Arkansas. It is located west of Searcy, on Jaybird Lane just south of Arkansas Highway 36. It is a single story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, mainly weatherboard siding, and a stone foundation. A small open belfry rises from the roof ridge, topped by a gabled roof. The front facade has a projecting gabled vestibule, its gabled section finished in diamond-cut wooden shingles. The main gable is partly finished in vertical board siding, with decorative vergeboard woodwork attached to the roof edge.
The Oak Grove School is a historic school building in rural eastern Grant County, Arkansas. It is located on the south side of United States Route 270, about 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Sheridan, and is now home to the Center Grove United Methodist Church. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof and novelty siding. It was built in 1938 with funding from the Works Progress Administration, and originally housed four classrooms. It was used as a school until 1950, and has served as the church since then.
The Mitchell House is a historic house in rural Yell County, Arkansas. It is located on the north side of Arkansas Highway 80, east of the Waltreak Methodist Church, in a northeastern finger of the Ouachita National Forest. The house is a single-story dogtrot structure, with a gable roof and a cross-gabled rear kitchen ell. The central breezeway has been enclosed, and houses the building entrance, which is sheltered by a shed-roof porch artfully decorated with vernacular woodwork. Built in 1891, it is one of the few 19th-century buildings surviving in the area, and is a well-preserved and unusual example of the dogtrot form.
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.
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