MANATEE COUNTY – A solar-powered resort community of “coastal cottages” proposed for the Cortez peninsula is intended to complement the “cracker Florida” look and appeal of the historic ...

BOCA RATON — A 78-year-old Florida Cracker cottage long in disrepair debuted on Saturday as the city’s refurbished Children’s Museum, drawing mobs of children and parents in a daylong ...

Built in Old Florida style in a former avocado grove, the cottage has wraparound verandas, a three-gabled roof, large overhangs, original wood floors, 10-foot ceilings, windows with inserts of ...

The Cracker style made its first reappearance 20 years ago in a Gulf Coast development called Seaside, which incorporated metal roofs and clapboard siding but stuck with a more beach-cottage feel.

Nearly 150 years later, Florida ranks ninth in the country in beef cow production with 862,000 head as of 2024, according to the University of Florida's cattle market update.

Beck says they looked at lots of beach bungalows and Florida Cracker cottages for inspiration. In the end, she replicated the original cottage’s exact same floor plan, down to the placement of ...

Nearly 150 years later, Florida ranks ninth in the country in beef cow production with 862,000 head as of 2024, according to the University of Florida's cattle market update.

Cracker Creek's 20 acres was owned by Rollie Johnson, Gamble's caretaker. Gamble died in 1932, Johnson married Gamble's nurse in 1933, and in 1934, they built the cabin and cottage that are still ...

Built in 1925, this cozy, two-bedroom, one-bathroom home in the historic Maine Colony neighborhood stands strong—and it’s on the market for $345,000.

To blend in with the surrounding historic fishing village, Hunters Point Resort & Marina on 18.7 acres north of Cortez Road and east of 126th Street West will feature “cracker Florida ...

A home builder on the west coast of Florida has joined a famous Miami architect to build charming "Katrina cottages" that may rewrite the definition of disaster housing.

Tucked away in a patch of oaks, sand pines and sweet gum trees, where the calls of roosters compete with the sounds of nearby traffic, a Florida Cracker-style house awaits a very uncertain future ...