Churches, schools highlight national register

The 12 new spots join part of a nationwide program that strives to protect historic resources. There are now about 1,800 listings from Tennessee including at least one in every county.

The Tennessee Historical Commission administers the program in Tennessee.

This year’s additions:

— Airdrie of Nashville, an example of early log house construction, as well as Classical-Revival architecture.

— Allen-White School in Hardeman County, the first brick Rosenwald school in the state built for blacks in the early 20th century with money from Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Co.

— Central United Methodist Church of Knoxville, an example of Gothic Revival architecture.

— Christ Temple AME Zion Church in Dandridge, a center of black religious and social life.

— Green McAdoo School in Clinton, a strategy center and staging area during the 1956 movement to desegregate the public high school in Clinton.

— Hunt-Moore House in Huntland, an example of Federal and Greek revival architecture.

— LeMoyne College Historic District in Memphis, a black college which was the only one of its kind in Memphis during the civil rights movement.

— McGill-Becton-Cates Farm in Rutherford County, an example of the importance of agriculture and farmsteads in the late 19th to mid-20th century.

— Mount Olivet Cemetery of Nashville, an example of the Rural Cemetery Movement with its curved roads and rolling topography.

— Normal Station Historic District of Memphis, a neighborhood that remains representative of growth from an isolated Shelby County farm community in the late 19th and early 20th century.

— Robert Hodge House in Franklin, an example of transitional architecture incorporating elements of both Queen Anne and Colonial revival styles.

— United Sons and Daughters of Charity Lodge Hall of Bolivar, built in 1909 and rebuilt in the 1920s after a fire. It symbolizes black ethnic heritage.