National Register of Historic Places
Riverside Historic District
Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida
The record
- Listed
- March 22, 1985
- Type
- Historic district
- Address
- Roughly bounded by Seaboard Coastline RR, Riverside and Memorial Pks., St. Johns River and Seminole, Jacksonville
- County
- Duval
- State
- Florida
- Period of significance
- 1850 to 1949
- Contributing resources
- 2120 buildings, 3 sites, 1 object
- Coordinates
- 30.30978, -81.69114
- Reference number
- 85000689
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The story
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The Riverside Historic District is a historic district in Jacksonville, Duval County, listed in the National Register in 1985. It covers 687 acres, with buildings dating mostly from about 1871 to 1935 in styles including Mediterranean Revival, Colonial Revival, Queen Anne, Prairie School and Bungalow.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with local significance in exploration/settlement and architecture; its period of significance, about 1871 to 1935, spans the 1878 subdivision of the first tract in Riverside Annex to the neighborhood's completion by 1935.
Physical character
Houses in the district have weatherboard, stucco or brick walls, porches on square tapered wood posts set on brick bases, and double-hung sash windows in one-over-one, 3/1 or 6/1 patterns, some with wide eaves under hipped roofs. Other buildings used rusticated concrete block, coquina block, Indiana limestone or Ohio sandstone, and multi-family housing was added to the neighborhood in the 1910s.
Historical context
Plantations operated in the area in 1801, and Elias Jaudon, Sr. bought the Magnolia Plantation nearby in 1850. Development began in 1878, when Lightbody subdivided the first tract in Riverside Annex. A 1901 fire destroyed 2,368 buildings in downtown Jacksonville, and many of the city's leading families who had lost their homes moved to Riverside; architect H.J. Klutho also arrived that year, after the fire. In 1909 the Fendig company advertised lots in New Riverside, and twelve more subdivisions opened from 1918 to 1930.