Smyrna_Methodist_Church

Smyrna Methodist Church

Smyrna Methodist Church

Historic church in Arkansas, United States

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.

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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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  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. [2]
    "NRHP nomination for Smyrna Methodist Church". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2016-01-23.
  3. [3]
    "Searcy.com". Searcy.com. Retrieved 2017-06-16.


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