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Henrietta DeRoboam House

Henrietta DeRoboam Home

January 6, 2015 

After Henrietta Schmidling DeRoboam used her own fortune to rescue the U.S. Hotel from foreclosure following her husband’s mismanagement, she decided she wanted her own residence. She commissioned the 1893 Queen Anne style home at 390 E. California Street in Jacksonville, replacing an 1855 pioneer wood frame structure.