Lincolnville is the neighborhood south of King Street between the San Sebastian River and Lake Maria Sanchez, founded in 1866 by freed people on the site of two former orange groves. It holds the largest concentration of late Victorian buildings in the city: frame houses from the 1880s through the 1920s with steep roofs, dormers, and porches, most of them under standing-seam or 5V metal, with some shingle and a few flat built-up sections over additions. The district was listed on the National Register in 1991 and sits inside the city's historic preservation zoning.
Water comes from two directions. The streets along Lake Maria Sanchez and the San Sebastian took several feet inside homes when Matthew's surge came up on October 7, 2016, and Irma in September 2017 and Helene in September 2024 flooded the same blocks. King tides flood the low corners without a storm at all. Roofs here are old, tall, and steep, and the flashing at chimneys and dormers is where they leak.
This site connects Lincolnville homeowners with an independent local roofing contractor by phone. It does not perform the work.
A leak at a chimney or dormer on an 1890s house is a roof repair with a crew that knows how to walk a steep metal roof. Any visible change of material or profile is a historic district roofing job with a Certificate of Appropriateness before the city permit. A full re-roof in kind, metal for metal, is a roof replacement with a lighter review.
The Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center, in the former Excelsior School on Martin Luther King Avenue, holds the neighborhood's history and is the landmark crews use for the center of the district. Permits run through the city's Planning and Building Department after the board step.
Call (904) 895-7548 to be connected with a local roofing contractor serving Lincolnville.
A lifted shingle after a nor'easter, a rusted fastener line on island metal, or a flashing seam at a chimney, traced to the source and fixed in writing.
Tear-off to the deck, new underlayment, and a new shingle, metal, or tile roof permitted through the county, the city, or St. Augustine Beach.
Tarping, photos, and repair after a named storm, a nor'easter, or a live oak limb opens the roof.
A walk on the roof and a look in the attic, written up with photos for a purchase, a renewal letter, or a post-storm check.
Standing seam and 5V panels specified for salt air from Vilano to Crescent Beach, with the fasteners and trim the ocean side of A1A demands.
The state form that records deck nailing, roof-to-wall straps, and roof shape so the wind portion of a Florida premium reflects the roof you have.
Roof work inside the city's HP zoning districts, where a Certificate of Appropriateness from the review board comes before the permit.
What to photograph, what a written roofing scope gives your adjuster, and how Florida's claim deadlines and roof-age rules work after a storm.