Matheson House
528 S.E. 1st Ave., Gainesville, Florida
Map
Coordinates:
+29.65105, -82.3201229°39'04" N, 82°19'12" W
Quadrangle map:Gainesville East
Description
The Matheson House is probably the second oldest house in Gainesville, Built about 1867. The two-story frame house was built for James Douglass Matheson, a prominent Gainesville merchant and civic office holder. He brought his bride, Augusta Steele, the only daughter of prominent Florida pioneer citizen, Judge Augustus Steele, to live in this house. The house was inherited by their son, Reverend Chris Matheson, D.D., a Gainesville mayor for eight terms and a Florida legislator in 1917-18. The house is occupied today by his widow, Sarah Hamilton Matheson. The Matheson House, according to tradition, was inspired by a similar house in the ancestral South Carolina town of the Mathesons. -- Historic American Buildings Survey
National Register information
- Status
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on June 4, 1973
- Reference number
- 73000564
- Architectural styles
- Georgian; Other architectural type; Federal; Transitional
- Area of significance
- Architecture
- Level of significance
- Local
- Evaluation criteria
- C - Design/Construction
- Property type
- Building
- Historic function
- Single dwelling
- Current function
- Single dwelling
- Period of significance
- 1850-1874
- Significant year
- 1867