LaVilla Boarding Houses, 830-836 Houston Street, Jacksonville, Duval County, FL

Significance: La Villa, incorporated during the Reconstruction Era, became a fashionable, sub-corporation of Jacksonville. In the late nineteenth century, an elegant red light district developed in La Villa near the railroad terminal. The last remaining examples of the character of the area are a group of three houses on Houston Street. Unified by similar scale and function, the houses were built as female boarding houses between c. 1895 and c. 1905.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-53
Survey number: HABS FL-346