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Description: Nassau Park, the city’s only historic district east of the Intracoastal Waterway, contains three subdivisions: Nassau Park, Wheatley’s, and John B. Reid’s Village. The circa 1935 Nassau Park subdivision was the City’s first planned residential development south of Atlantic Avenue. In August 1936, Mr. and Mrs. William Wheatley of Connecticut, platted the portion of Nassau Street from Gleason Street to Venetian Drive. Nassau Street’s initial development intended to compliment existing hotels and Mediterranean Revival-style oceanfront homes along South Ocean Boulevard. The 18 Colonial-Cape Cod Revival style houses built along Nassau Street between 1935 and 1941 have retained their original architectural elements. The Colonial-Cape Cod Revival style is derived from early wooden folk houses of Eastern Massachusetts containing accentuated front doors with pilasters and overhead fanlights, gabled roof lines, dormers, carved wood detailing and Georgian or Adam doorways. The dwellings erected in the 1950s and 1960s architecturally differ from the initial development of Nassau Street, yet compliment the historic streetscape. The City of Delray Beach locally designated the Nassau Park Historic District in 1988.