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.
Smyrna Methodist Church | |
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  Location in Arkansas  Location in United States | |
| Nearest city | Center Hill, Arkansas |
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| Coordinates | 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 |
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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edit- ^ 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.
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