JJ Bridges Historic House

JJ Bridges House was built in 1916, the Bridges House was the first of the highly academic Colonial Revival style homes built in the city. It is important because it inspired a documentable second generation of residences, which are simple and elegant as opposed to the more massive, opulent, and columned “great houses” by Edward Pringle Hyer of the late 1920s and 1930s. The Rev. John J. Bridges, D.D., and his wife Isobel retired to Orlando following a distinguished career as a clergyman in New York and northern New Jersey. The Bridges used their architect, Wilson C. Ely of Newark, NJ.

Bridges’ brother, Edward patterned his house after John’s in 1922, which was moved to Bourne Place after 1925. National Register of Historic Places date added: 1984