The house has old Southern charm, low maintenance, comfort and a little bit of elegance, too." The 19th-century Cracker house: Wood-frame construction. Elevated floor; crawl space for ventilation.

The home has been dubbed the “Ritz Cracker” for its upscale take on an old Florida Cracker house, ... Construction plans called for the home to follow guidelines set by four environmentally ...

Haase had prepared 11-year-old David and 13-year-old Jennifer for the natural life — Florida Cracker houses set among pines and ... There was no Cracker house to be found, ... open floor plans.

Architect Jim Strickland bought a 40-by-80-foot lot in a posh Gulf Coast resort community. On it, he’s building a poor man’s home. With a corrugated-metal roof, a screened-in porch and … ...

Cows, orange groves, country roads and old-fashioned downtowns. That's the Florida you find when you get off the highway and head into the rural area above Lake Okeechobee.

Williams lives the life of a Florida cracker in an old-fashioned cracker style house with a wrap-around porch and a white picket fence all on 11.8 acres adjoining Paynes Prairie State Park.

'I was born and brought up in a Cracker house," says Dean Fowler as the wine is poured. We're in Steinhatchee, a part of Florida where they don't see many Brits, and tonight my wife Kate and I are ...

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 ...

The Riverwalk of Fanning Springs, a new community west of Gainesville that will include 200 homes, advertises a "style of architecture in keeping with the charm of the old Florida Cracker" homes.