Smyrna Methodist Church
Smyrna Methodist Church | |
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Coordinates | 35°15′8″N 91°51′11″W / 35.25222°N 91.85306°WCoordinates: 35°15′8″N 91°51′11″W / 35.25222°N 91.85306°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1854 |
Architectural style | Greek Revival |
MPS | White County MPS |
NRHP reference No. | 91001336[1] |
Added to NRHP | July 20, 1992 |
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.
Built in 1854, it is one of White County's few surviving pre-Civil War buildings, and its finest surviving Greek Revival church.[2] Some of the logs used to build the church began growing as trees in the early 1600s.[3]
The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1]
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- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Smyrna Methodist Church". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2016-01-23.
- ^ "Searcy.com". Searcy.com. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
- Methodist churches in Arkansas
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
- Greek Revival church buildings in Arkansas
- Churches completed in 1854
- Churches in White County, Arkansas
- Wooden churches in Arkansas
- National Register of Historic Places in White County, Arkansas
- White County, Arkansas Registered Historic Place stubs
- Arkansas church stubs