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Florida cracker style house. Florida cracker architecture or Southern plantation style is a style of vernacular architecture typified by a low slung, wood-frame house, with a large porch. It was widespread in the 19th and early 20th century. Some elements of the style are still popular as a source of design themes.
Cracker Gothic is a term for vernacular style of historical homes in Florida that are otherwise considered under the Florida cracker architecture style. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Cracker Gothic comes from the combination of Florida cracker and Gothic Revival architecture and can be used interchangeably with Southern Gothic .
Cracker Country is a living history museum of rural Florida, and Florida Cracker culture which was established in 1978 by Mildred and Doyle Carlton Jr. [1] Cracker Country features thirteen original buildings dating from 1870 to 1912 and is set in 1898. [1] The buildings were moved to their present location from throughout the state.
The Capt. Henry E. Sewall House is an historic wooden house now located in Indian RiverSide Park in Jensen Beach, in Martin County, Florida.Local pioneer and developer Capt. Henry E. Sewall built it in 1889 [1] at the southern tip of Sewall's Point, the peninsula and town which bear his family name.
The term cracker was in use during the Elizabethan era to describe braggarts and blowhards. The original root of this is the Middle English word crack, meaning 'entertaining conversation' (which survives as a verb, as in "to crack a joke"); the noun in the Gaelicized spelling craic also retains currency in Ireland and to some extent in Scotland and Northern England, in a sense of 'fun' or ...
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July 24, 2022, letters: Readers comment on Florida's building inspectors, the state's school rankings and national inflation.
Gothic Revival church buildings in Florida (1 C, 13 P) Pages in category "Gothic Revival architecture in Florida" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.