Monticello Historic District in Jefferson County, Florida

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Jefferson County attraction

Monticello Historic District

Jefferson County · Panhandle & Emerald Coast

Forty-one historic buildings in the middle of Monticello, listed on the National Register on August 19, 1977.

ABOUT THIS PLACE

The district runs in an irregular shape along Madison, Jefferson, Dogwood and Washington Streets, and the listed area takes in some three thousand acres. What was built here went up between 1828 and about 1900, and the styles run through almost everything that was going in that period: Frame Vernacular, Victorian, Classical Revival, Romanesque Revival, Greek Revival, Italianate and Stick-Eastlake, often within sight of one another. The Jefferson County Courthouse stands at the center of it, and the Perkins Opera House and the Wirick-Simmons House are both contributing buildings in their own right. The town takes its name from Thomas Jefferson's house in Virginia, as the county takes his name, and it was laid out around a courthouse square in the way a Virginia or Georgia town would have been rather than in the Florida manner. Walking it takes an hour. Most of the buildings are still in use rather than preserved as exhibits, which is the difference between this district and a restored one

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