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Captain Hammond House

historic house in Florida, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ5036663 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Captain Hammond House is a historic house located at 5775 Citrus Avenue in White City, Florida. It was built for and served as the home for the retired New England sea captain Robert A Hammond.

Description and history

The house itself was completed in 1902 and was built by Danish craftsman in the Frame Vernacular style influenced by Danish architectural styles. On February 23, 1990, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

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External links

St. Lucie County listings at National Register of Historic Places

"St. Lucie County listings".

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“Captain Hammond House” enters the record as historic house in Florida, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Captain, Hammond and House can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1902, 1990—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Captain, Hammond and House.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5036663. Authority coordinates are 27.364, -80.343. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1902 and 1990.

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This entry incorporates text from “Captain Hammond House” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.