Averitt-Winchester House

Averitt-Winchester House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location within Florida
Location	Miccosukee, Florida
Coordinates	30°35′33″N 84°2′31″W
Area	3.5 acres
Built	c. 1881
Architectural style	Frame Vernacular
NRHP reference No.	96001336
Added to NRHP	November 15, 1996

The Averitt-Winchester House (also known as the Lee House) is a historic house located on the west side of State Road 59, south of the Moccasin Gap-Cromartie Road junction in Miccosukee, Florida, United States. The house is locally significant in its association with post-American Civil War settlement of the area and essentially unaltered appearance.

Description and history

The house, built c. 1881, is a one-story, gable-front-and-wing, frame vernacular building resting on brick piers. With a clapboard exterior, it has an irregular layout with two ell extensions on either side and a high-pitched tin roof pierced by two brick chimneys. the house is the oldest residence in the community, and its owners were from the earliest settler families of the area. The Averitts played an instrumental role in the founding of Indian Springs Baptist Church, providing the land for the second church building.

It was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 1996.

External links

• Leon County listings at National Register of Historic Places
• Leon County listings Archived 2006-08-11 at the Wayback Machine at Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs