The Sample Estate (also known as the McDougald House) is a historic house located at 3161 North

Dixie Highway Dixie Highway was a United States auto trail first planned in 1914 to connect the Midwest with the South. It was part of a system and was expanded from an earlier Miami to Montreal highway. The final system is better understood as a network of ...

Pompano Beach Pompano Beach ( ) is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. It is located along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, just north of Fort Lauderdale. The nearby Hillsboro Inlet forms part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. As of the 2020 ...

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. The house is a noteworthy example of the Colonial Revival style and is one of the most architecturally distinguished homes in the community.

Description and history

Completed in 1916, the large, two-story, seventeen-room house was designed by Albert Neal Sample in the

Colonial Revival style The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archi ...

of architecture. The main or east facade of the house is dominated by a one-story porch which extends to the south of the main block of the house to create an open porte-cochere. On March 1, 1984, it was added to the

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House moved

In 2001 the significant building on the estate, the

Sample-McDougald House The Sample-McDougald House (also known as the Sample Estate or Pinehaven) is a historic home in Pompano Beach, Florida, built in 1916. It is currently located at 450 Northeast 10th Street, but was originally built on Dixie Highway and moved to ...

was moved to 450 Northeast 10th Street. The house was listed on the National Register of historic Places in its current location in 2004. The property was then de-listed, the house was later renominated and added to the register as the Sample-McDougald House in 2004.

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Broward County listings
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National Register of Historic Places

Florida Division of Historical Resources
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