Old Lucerne Historic Residential District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1945.

From the record

“The Old Lucerne Historic Residential District is a U.S. historic district located in Lake Worth Beach, Florida. The district runs roughly along North Lakeside Drive, North Palmway Street, and North O Street, from Lake Avenue to 7th Avenue N.”
Wikipedia article Old Lucerne Historic Residential District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Palm Beach County · listed in 2001 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly along N. Lakeside Dr., N. Palmway St., and N. O St., from Lake Ave. to 7th Ave. N, Lake Worth, 33460
When was it listed? June 2001
Category. district
Census division. Lake Worth
National Register reference number. 01000526 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1945 to 1956

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 11 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Old Lucerne Historic Residential District, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheet covering Old Lucerne Historic Residential District, surveyed 1945

Fires near this property

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Old Lucerne Historic Residential District between 2007 and 2008, burning about 5 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
3 June 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	MINOR ROAD FIRE
22 May 2007	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	CONGRESS COMMAND

Every fire recorded in Palm Beach County

Maps showing this location

8 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1945 USGS Lake Worth quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1949 USGS Lake Worth quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1981 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Gulf Stream Hotel	0.3 miles	1983
Lake Worth City Hall, Old	0.3 miles	1989
Historic Old Town Commercial District	0.4 miles	2001
College Park Historic District	1.5 miles	2001
Osborne School	1.8 miles	2003
Eastover	3.6 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000526 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Palm Beach County	All 74 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.