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Florida cracker architecture is a style of vernacular architecture typified by a wood-frame house. It was widespread in the 19th century and is still popular with some developers as a source of design themes.
Florida cracker refers to colonial-era English pioneer settlers and their descendants. There was no air conditioning, and the new immigrants to the Sunshine State had to depend on nature to get some relief from the heat. Houses of this style are characterized by metal roofs, raised floors, and straight central hallways from the front to the back of the home (sometimes called "dog trot" or "shotgun" hallways, similar to the shotgun house design). They built their homes surrounded by wide verandas or porches, often wrapping around the entire home, to provide shade for their windows and walls. Some houses had a
*Big Bend Farm Buildings at the
Laura (Riding) Jackson Historic House
in Vero Beach, Florida
Cracker Houses
American architectural styles Florida cracker culture Vernacular architecture in Florida
Florida cracker architecture is a style of vernacular architecture typified by a wood-frame house. It was widespread in the 19th century and is still popular with some developers as a source of design themes.
Florida cracker refers to colonial-era English pioneer settlers and their descendants. There was no air conditioning, and the new immigrants to the Sunshine State had to depend on nature to get some relief from the heat. Houses of this style are characterized by metal roofs, raised floors, and straight central hallways from the front to the back of the home (sometimes called "dog trot" or "shotgun" hallways, similar to the shotgun house design). They built their homes surrounded by wide verandas or porches, often wrapping around the entire home, to provide shade for their windows and walls. Some houses had a clerestory
In architecture, a clerestory ( ; , also clearstory, clearstorey, or overstorey) is a high section of wall that contains windows above eye level. Its purpose is to admit light, fresh air, or both.
Historically, ''clerestory'' denoted an upper l ...
that would improve the ventilation in the interior.
Examples
*Big Bend Farm Buildings at the Tallahassee Museum
The Tallahassee Museum is a privately funded, non-profit corporation in Tallahassee, Florida.
The stated purpose of the Tallahassee Museum is "to educate the residents of and visitors to the Big Bend area about the region's natural and cultural hi ...
in Tallahassee, Florida
*Cracker Homestead at the Forest Capital Museum State Park in Perry, Florida
* Bensen House in Grant, Florida
* Plumb House in Clearwater, Florida
*Winchester Symphony House
Winchester Symphony House is a historic home located in the Eau Gallie, Florida, Eau Gallie-section of Melbourne, Florida, Melbourne, Florida. The house was built in 1886. William Treutler, director of the State Bank of Eau Gallie and hotel prop ...
in Eau Gallie, FloridaLaura (Riding) Jackson Historic House
in Vero Beach, Florida
See also
*Architecture of the United States
The architecture of the United States demonstrates a broad variety of architectural styles and built forms over the country's history of over two centuries of independence and former Spanish and British rule.
Architecture in the United States h ...
* Cracker Gothic
References
External links
* * * {{cite web , title=Cracker House , work=A History of Central Florida Podcast , publisher=University of Central Florida , url= http://stars.library.ucf.edu/ahistoryofcentralfloridapodcast/15/Cracker Houses
American architectural styles Florida cracker culture Vernacular architecture in Florida