McWhorter-Lynn House. 6760 Berryhill Street. 1857. Frame Vernacular. The house was built by attorney George Mc Whorter. Mc Whorter served as a school superintendent, house speaker and chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court. The original footprint of the house is the two story front gabled core. The McWhorters added a one story wing on the western elevation in 1876. In the 1890s they replaced the one story wing with a two story addition and added a one story addition on the northern elevation. The current front facade with the two story veranda and Doric columns were built in 1915.

Credits and Sources:

National Register of Historic Places: Milton, Florida.  November 8, 1987.  National Register Identification Number 87001944

Brian D. Rucker, “Blackwater and Yellow Pine: The Development of Santa Rosa County, 1821-1865. (Ph.D diss., Florida State University, 1990).

Virginia Savage McAlester.  A Field Guide to American Houses. (New York:  Alfred A. Knopf. 2013).

Gerald Foster. American Houses. (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 2004).

Maurie Van Buren. House Styles at a Glance. (Marietta, Georgia: Longstreet Press. 1991).