17. H. Mason Smith House. 5211 Canal Street. 1925. Bungalow. This house was built with a rare Japanesque treatment of the porch beams, which is still visible today. Japanesque treatment is an exotic vernacular of Craftsman style that borrows elements of Japanese architecture. This style displays artistic exaggeration in brackets, columns and chimneys.

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).