4. Melvin-Rorie House. 6740 Berryhill Street. Circa 1900. Frame Vernacular. The house was built as the home for D.H. Melvin, a prominent citizen during the early 1900s. During his lifetime, D.H. Melvin served as the county Tax Collector and on the County Board of Public Instruction for several years.

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).