South on St. George Street from the Paredes-Segui-Macmillan house is Palm Row. This palm tree lined brick lane was developed between 1904 and 1910 by Henry Philip Ammidown. Ammidown lived in the house at 1 Palm Row for a short time. In the past 100 years it has housed two schools and a drug store. It is back to being a residential dwelling now and is up for sale. This beautiful Victorian Era house has actually been on the market since 2010 with the asking price dropping from $675,000 to the current $448,500. All of the original six Victorian houses still stand on this cute street. Interestingly, Henry Philip Ammidown also lived in the Paredes-Sequi-Macmillan house (previous post) which his father, Holmes Ammidown, purchased in 1873.
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| Palm Row Today |
Here's a 1920's postcard showing what Palm Row looked like originally. Not much has changed!
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Courtesy of State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, http://floridamemory.com/items/show/161529
Original postcard photo by W.J. Harris |
Here's the house at 1 Palm Row today with its shutters and carved bargeboards.
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| 1 Palm Row - North side |
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| 1 Palm Row - Northeast side |
Here are some of the details of 1 Palm Row.
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| Jigsawn Brackets |
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| Victorian Era Shutters |
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| Carved Bargeboard |
The other houses have corbeled chimneys like this, but curiously the original one does not.
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| Corbeled Chimney |
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