I.M. Josephson's Dry Goods Building. 5234 Willing Street. 1892. Masonry Vernacular. An 1895 Sanborn Insurance Map indicates the building originally served as a dry goods store. Dry goods is a historic term for items such as textiles, ready to wear clothing, toiletries and other household goods. This building is thought to be the oldest building on North Willing Street.

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).