Red Bank Plantation House
Red Bank Plantation House is a brick, two‑story home in Jacksonville, Florida. Built between 1854 and 1857 as the main house of the Red Bank plantation, it sits at 1230 Greenridge Road in the San Marco area. The property is small, less than an acre, and the house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since October 18, 1972.
The plantation area has a long history, dating back to the 1790s when the land passed through several prominent owners, including Francisco Flora, William Craig, Isaiah Hart, Isaac Hendricks, and Albert Gallatin Philips, who turned the land into a 450‑acre plantation. Philips had a wooden plantation house burn down, so he built the current brick house on the site. At that time, it was said to be the only brick building between Jacksonville and Palatka.
After the Civil War, the Philips family stayed, but much of the land was sold for residential development as South Jacksonville—now part of San Marco—grew. A small community named Philips formed near a nearby train station. In the 1920s, as Colonial Manor developed around the house, the front door was moved to face Greenridge Road and a small porch was added. The building was briefly used as a restaurant—first Candlewick Inn, then Johnson’s Chicken House—before returning to private residence in 1937. Today, it remains a private home and is one of Jacksonville’s oldest houses still in use.
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