Marabanong

Jacksonville, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Heritage registerNational Register of Historic Places↗

Marabanong is a Queen Anne-style mansion in Jacksonville, Florida, built in 1876 by British astronomer and meteorologist Thomas Basnett on a promontory overlooking the St. Johns River. Constructed on the site of the antebellum Perley Place, which Basnett had purchased in 1870 and which was destroyed by fire, the house represents a Victorian-era reinvention of the property. Basnett, who emigrated from England in 1835 and later ran a drugstore in Illinois before relocating to Florida, married Eliza Wilbur at the home in what was his third marriage. Marabanong was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 11, 2013.