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Photograph of Jules Frere House
Photograph by SebasTorrente, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Jules Frere House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1949.

From the record

“The Jules Frere House is a historic house located at 2404 Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Pierce, Florida. It is locally significant as one of the best examples of the Spanish Colonial Revival style in Fort Pierce, maintaining its original qualities exceptionally well.”

Wikipedia article Jules Frere House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for St. Lucie County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Frere, Jules, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 2404 Sunrise Blvd., Fort Pierce, 34982
  • When was it listed? April 1995
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Fort Pierce
  • Architectural style. Mission Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 95000467 - 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

1949 to 1988

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Jules Frere House, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet covering Jules Frere House, surveyed 1949

Fires near this property

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Jules Frere House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 713 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 9 were 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
Natural25
Misuse of fire by a minor24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Debris and open burning5
Smoking2

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 1996Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2015Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMELVILLE (56)
7 August 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 1996Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in St. Lucie County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Jules Frere House: 14 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Stewart - Stewart MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Airport MineSilicaProducer
North PitSilicaProducer
Ralls MineSilicaProducer
Saggy PitSilicaProducer
Minton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Morgan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
North PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
South PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
St. Lucie MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Lucie County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Pierce, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 1995HailFort Pierce$500Severe thunderstorms dropped baseball-size hail near Oslo Road, 10 miles southwest of Vero Beach, and near Fort Pierce. Numerous cars were damaged and windows were broken in two mobile homes.

Every storm recorded in St. Lucie County

Maps showing this location

10 surveys

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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Fort Pierce Site1.2 miles1974
St. Lucie High School1.3 miles1984
St. Anastasia Catholic School, Old1.6 miles2000
Fort Pierce Old Post Office1.6 miles2002
Cresthaven1.6 miles1985
Arcade Building1.6 miles2001

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95000467 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Lucie CountyAll 16 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.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.