Architecture in Florida
This guide from the State Library explores Florida architecture, from cathedrals to Cracker houses, ranging from colonial to present times.
Materials are generally available through interlibrary loan from the circulating collection of the State Library.
Links within the bibliographies take you to information in our State Library catalog or to more information on external sites.
Styles and examples
- Atwood, Mary, and William (Bill) Weeks. Historic Homes of Florida’s First Coast. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2014.
- Braden, Susan R. The Architecture of Leisure: The Florida Resort Hotels of Henry Flagler and Henry Plant. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2002.
- Breslauer, Ken. Historic Sites of Architecture of St. Petersburg Florida. Denver, CO: Outskirts Press, 2011.
- Brooke, Steven. The Majesty of St. Augustine. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing, 2005.
- Gordon, Elsbeth K. Florida’s Colonial Architectural Heritage. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2002.
- Gordon, Elsbeth K. Heart and Soul of Florida: Sacred Sites and Historic Architecture. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2013.
- Granger and Schwamberger Inc. Treasures: Historic Architecture of Greater Orlando. Orlando, FL: Orlando Landmarks Defense, 1993.
- Gyure, Dale Allen. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Florida Southern College. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2010.
- Haase, Ronald W. Classic Cracker: Florida’s Wood-Frame Vernacular Architecture. Sarasota, FL: Pineapple Press, 1992.
- Hochstim, Jan, and Steven Brooke. Florida Modern: Residential Architecture 1945-1970. New York, NY: Rizzoli, 2004.
- Jacksonville Historic Landmarks Commission. Jacksonville’s Architectural Heritage: Landmarks for the Future. Jacksonville, FL: University of North Florida Press, 1989.
- McAlester, Virginia, and Lee McAlester. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York, NY: Knopf, 1984.
- Mohney, David, and Keller Easterling, eds. Seaside: Making a Town in America. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1991.
- Nash, Eric Peter, and Randall C. Robinson, Jr. Mimo: Miami Modern Revealed. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2004.
- Parks, Arva Moore. George Merrick, Son of the South Wind: Visionary Creator of Coral Gables. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2015.
- Reeves, F. Blair. “The Architecture of Historic St. Augustine: A Photographic Essay.” Florida Historical Quarterly 44.1/2 (1965): 94–96.
- State Archives of Florida. “The Grove: The Legacy of the Call and Collins Families.” Florida Memory. Florida Division of Library and Information Services.
- State Archives of Florida. “Spanish Architecture in Florida.” Florida Memory. Florida Division of Library and Information Services.
- Wilson, Joie, and Penny Taylor. Dream Houses: Historic Beach Homes & Cottages of Naples. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2011.
Florida architects
- Broward, Robert C. The Architecture of Henry John Klutho: The Prairie School in Jacksonville. Jacksonville, FL: University of North Florida Press, 1983.
- Curl, Donald W. “The Florida Architecture of F. Burrall Hoffman Jr., 1882-1980.” The Florida Historical Quarterly 76.4 (1998): 399–416.
- Curl, Donald W. “Joseph Urban’s Palm Beach Architecture.” Florida Historical Quarterly 71.4 (1993): 436–457.
- De Alba, Roberto. Paul Rudolph: The Late Work. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003.
- Domin, Christopher, and Joseph King. Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.
- Giller, Norman M., and Sarah Giller Nelson. Designing the Good Life: Norman M. Giller and the Development of Miami Modernism. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2007.
- Harden, Ronald. Untold Architectural Black History of Tampa, Florida: My 36-Year Architecture Career in Tampa. Durham, CT: Eloquent Books, 2010.
- Henning, Randolph C. The Architecture of Alfred Browning Parker: Miami’s Maverick Modernist. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2011.
- Henry, Saxon. Four Florida Moderns: The Architecture of Alberto Alfonso, René González, Chad Oppenheim & Guy W. Peterson. New York, NY: Norton, 2010.
- Jackson, Faith Reyher. Pioneer of Tropical Landscape Architecture: William Lyman Phillips in Florida. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1997.
- Lapidus, Morris. Too Much Is Never Enough. New York, NY: Rizzoli, 1996.
- Lejeune, Jean-François, and Allan T. Shulman. The Making of Miami Beach, 1933-1942: The Architecture of Lawrence Murray Dixon. Miami Beach, FL: Rizzoli, 2000.
- McClane, Patrick W. The Architecture of James Gamble Rogers II in Winter Park, Florida. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2004.
- Mizner, Addison. Florida Architecture of Addison Mizner. Reprint. New York, NY: Dover Publications, 1992.
- Olendorf, William, and Robert W. Tolf. Addison Mizner, Architect to the Affluent: A Sketchbook Raisonné of His Work. Fort Lauderdale, FL: Gale Graphics, 1983.
- Seebohm, Caroline. Boca Rococo: How Addison Mizner Invented Florida’s Gold Coast. New York, NY: Clarkson Potter, 2001.
