George Randolph Frisbee Jr. House

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George Randolph Frisbee Jr. House
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Location Middleburg, Florida
Coordinates 30°4′12″N81°51′40″W / 30.07000°N 81.86111°W / 30.07000; -81.86111 Coordinates: 30°4′12″N81°51′40″W / 30.07000°N 81.86111°W / 30.07000; -81.86111
Built 1890
Architectural style Frame Vernacular
MPS Middleburg MPS
NRHP reference # 90000316 [1]
Added to NRHP March 9, 1990

The George Randolph Frisbee Jr. House is a historic house located at 2125 Palmetto Street in Middleburg, Florida. It is locally significant as an excellent example of late 19th century vernacular building trends and also as one of the few buildings dating from the early developmental period of the community.

Middleburg, Florida Census-designated place in Florida, United States

Middleburg is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) within Clay County, Florida, United States, located 26 miles (42 km) southwest of downtown Jacksonville and 16 miles (26 km) northwest of Green Cove Springs, the Clay County seat. It is home to Middleburg High School. As of the 2010 census, the population of Middleburg was 13,008. It is home to the Middleburg Historic District (Florida)

Florida State of the United States of America

Florida is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States. The state is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Straits of Florida. Florida is the 22nd-most extensive, the 3rd-most populous, and the 8th-most densely populated of the U.S. states. Jacksonville is the most populous municipality in the state and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. The Miami metropolitan area is Florida's most populous urban area. Tallahassee is the state's capital.

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Description and history

It is a two-story, Frame Vernacular building, with an L-shaped floor plan. It has a steeply-pitched, side gabled roof. The symmetrical main facade is dominated by a two-story, hip roofed porch with chamfered post supports and a balustrade. There is a rear gabled, one-story ell, and a two-story shed roofed addition on the rear elevation. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 9, 1990.

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred preserving the property.

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