Tallahassee Downtown Walking Tour

Park Avenue Historic District
(Tour Length: 1 ½ miles; Approximate Time: 2 hrs.)

St. John's Episcopal Church (Established 1840)

Historic homes and churches, civic buildings, moss-laden live oak trees and colorful plantings line seven beautiful linear parks creating the spine of the Park Avenue Historic District. The Avenue marked the northern boundary of the original city, and began as a 200-foot-wide open dirt space (now Park Avenue) cleared in the 1820s to help protect the city from Indian attack. Some of Tallahassee’s oldest homes, dating to territorial times, were built along the eastern parks. Churches and government buildings clustered along the western parks.

In the late 1800s, the community began to landscape the dirt clearing, turning it into a series of parks. Its name was changed from McCarty Street to Park Avenue at the turn of the century to provide a more impressive return address for a resident’s wedding invitations!

Park Avenue, a pleasing blend of old and new, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Stroll through the parks and enjoy Tallahassee’s history and natural beauty.

The Columns - Stop #18 (2:47)                                  

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LeRoy C. Collins Leon County Public Library - Stop #19

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St. James C.M.E. Church - Stop #20

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Cherokee Park - Stop #23

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E. Peck Greene Park - Stop #24

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