9. Mints-Merchant House. 6767 Berryhill Street. 1890. Frame Vernacular. This side-gabled house exhibits strong elements of Carpenter Gothic style with its bonnet front porch, gingerbread barge-board and the steeply pitched front gable on the front facade.

Carpenter Gothic, also known as Rural Gothic, is a style of architecture that evolved from earlier forms of Gothic architecture. As a close relative of Revival Gothic, Carpenter Gothic developed in North America in the mid-19th century. This style is typified by wooden houses, decorated with motifs of Gothic Revival detail.

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).