The Summertown United Methodist Church was built in 1891. This church is a modest example of Carpenter Gothic architecture. The white board and batten are hallmarks of this style.
The church was active until 1995 when the Methodist Conference dissolved the congregation.
The Mt. Sinai Holiness Church of God sits just off the road in Emanuel County. Based on the name, this congregation was likely a Church of God in Christ (COGIC) denomination. While open to all races, members in the churches are mostly African American. Georgia’s historic resource database indicates that the church was built in 1945. According to Google Street Views, this church was active until at least 2014.
Constructed in the early 1890s, Dellwood United Methodist Church served the community of Dellwood for several decades. It was most recently the Son Light Inn. Currently, the church is no longer in use.
Built in 1915, the Noah’s Ark AME Church is considered one of the freedmen’s churches since the congregation was formed soon after the end of the Civil War.
Founded in 1787 by Richard Allen, Allen served as the first minister for Bethel AME Church in Philadelphia. The fastest growth in the AME churches occurred post-Civil War in the South. During Reconstruction, church membership grew to 400,000 parishioners.
Art Deco can be hard to find in more rural areas. This building started as the Swainsboro Ice & Fuel Company and has evolved over the years. It’s now storage.
This 1950 Craftsman was designed by Leila Ross Wilburn, the second woman in the South to become a licensed architect. Ross created architectural plan books for home design. Her first of nine plan books, Southern Homes and Bungalows, was published in 1914. These plan books created access for middle-class homeowners to professionally designed home blueprints. She is considered Georgia’s most prolific architect of homes.
In 2018, Sarah J. Boykin and Susan M. Hunter published a retrospective on her work titled Southern Homes and Plan Books.
This home is a contributing property to Twin City’s Historic District.
