Live in Murray Hill
A 1907 streetcar suburb behind Roosevelt Boulevard with its own main street on Edgewood Avenue, an elementary school the state has graded A three years running, no historic review, and Zillow's typical value at about half Avondale's next door.
Murray Hill began in 1907, when Walter C. Brobston's Murray Hill Land Company replatted the northern end of the 1880s Edgewood subdivision as Murray Hill Heights; it incorporated as a town in 1916, ran up $300,000 of debt, and was annexed by Jacksonville in 1925. This guide takes as its boundary the area the Murray Hill Preservation Association filed with the City of Jacksonville, 1,264 acres between Interstate 10, McDuff Avenue, Roosevelt Boulevard and Cassat Avenue, where the 2020 census counted 9,226 residents, up 6% from 8,687 on about the same ground in 2010, and owners lived in 54% of the occupied homes. Zillow's typical value for ZIP code 32205, which holds every resident, was $255,208 in August 2026, down 4.2% on the year, but the ZIP held three times as many people and is not a Murray Hill price. No City historic district reaches across Roosevelt Boulevard from Avondale, so outside two landmark parcels the City does not review exterior work here.
A town that lasted nine years, and a main street that outlived it
Not a neighborhood the City draws: the area the Murray Hill Preservation Association filed on the City of Jacksonville's Neighborhood Associations layer (OBJECTID 380, typed Neighborhood and marked active), about 1,264 acres, traced against the Census Bureau's road file: Interstate 10 on the north; McDuff Avenue (State Road 218) on the east, from the interstate down to Roosevelt Boulevard; Roosevelt Boulevard (US 17) on the southeast, as far as Park Street; Park Street at the southern tip; and Cassat Avenue on the west. Big Fishweir Creek runs through it, Little Fishweir Creek touches its edge, and the St. Johns and the Ortega River are each about 1.1 km away. The City does not say it checks the lines organizations file. No City local historic district, National Register district, redevelopment area or zoning overlay covers any of it, and it shares no ground with the Riverside Avondale Preservation area. The 1916 town of Murray Hill drew its own line, on Fishweir Creek, Lenox Avenue and Gilmore, Nelson and Kingsbury streets. All of it is in Duval County, Duval County Public Schools, the consolidated City of Jacksonville and City Council District 7.
Murray Hill was sold as a suburb before it was a place. In 1907 Walter C. Brobston's Murray Hill Land Company replatted the northern end of the 1880s Edgewood subdivision as Murray Hill Heights, after the Manhattan neighborhood, and sold more than half the lots. The streetcar arrived in 1914. In 1916 the residents incorporated a town, and within a decade it was $300,000 in debt and known as Murray Bottom; Jacksonville annexed it in 1925. The growth came after Naval Air Station Jacksonville opened in 1940: about 1,700 homes went up in the 1940s, the peak. Edgewood Avenue became the "Avenue of Progress", and the Murray Hill Theatre opened on it in 1949.
The line is the preservation association's, not the City's. This guide takes the area the Murray Hill Preservation Association filed with the City, 1,264 acres between Interstate 10, McDuff Avenue, Roosevelt Boulevard and Cassat Avenue. The City does not say it checks the lines organizations file, and no City district carries the name. The 2020 census counted 9,226 residents there, up 6% from 2010. Owners lived in 54% of the occupied homes and renters in 2,012, a far more even mix than Ortega's nine in ten owners.
Roosevelt Boulevard is a price line. Every block is in ZIP code 32205, where Zillow's typical value was $255,208 in August 2026, down 4.2%, but the ZIP held three times as many people. Zillow's own Murray Hill, drawn on its own map, sat at $233,826, down 5.8%; its Avondale, across the boulevard, at $429,793. Every address pays the city's same four levies, 17.7412 mills for 2025. A homesteaded buyer at Zillow's Murray Hill figure owes about $3,420 a year on the base exemption amounts, a landlord about $4,148; at Duval County's $335,000 single-family median the homestead bill is about $5,215. Save Our Homes caps a homestead's assessed value at 3% a year and ends on a sale, so the seller's bill understates yours. No community development district was found here, but no map of them exists: read the non-ad valorem lines on the seller's last bill. The arithmetic is on the Jacksonville page.
Nobody reviews the facade. Avondale, across Roosevelt Boulevard, is a City local historic district, where a window, a fence or a driveway needs a certificate of appropriateness. Murray Hill is not, and no National Register district reaches it. Only two parcels are City landmarks, the Murray Hill Theatre and a house at 3239 Dellwood Avenue. Everywhere else an owner can change a house without the City's preservation staff, and so can the owner next door.
The water here is a creek. Big Fishweir Creek runs through the south of the area toward the St. Johns, and FEMA's effective map of 2018 puts 3.3% of the area, and 391 residents, in the 1% annual chance zone along it; the reference point is in zone X, and the preliminary maps of 2025 change almost nothing. JaxReady puts 8,936 residents in no evacuation zone: a lower surge risk, not no flood risk. Irma's record river flood of 2017 hit Riverside, San Marco and downtown hardest, and the reports read here do not say whether it backed up the creek. A homeowners policy does not cover rising water. Downtown is about 6 km east; the First Coast Flyer's Orange Line stops on Park Street about a kilometer south, every 20 minutes on weekdays.
- Run the address on FEMA's map, and ask the seller whether Big Fishweir Creek has ever reached the yard
- Price a separate flood policy before the offer, even outside the 1% zone
- File for the homestead exemption with the property appraiser by 1 March of the year after you buy
- Run the address in Duval County Public Schools' Neighborhood School Locator: the area spans five elementary zones
How Murray Hill got here
- 1885Northern investors led by James Randall Challen, who bought part of the old Jaudon plantation the year before, plat it as the Edgewood subdivision, a strip from the river to Black Creek Road, now Lenox Avenue; a second Jaxson article dates the plat to 1884.
- 1906The northern part of Edgewood is conveyed to the Murray Hill Land Company, led by Walter C. Brobston.
- 1907Brobston replats it as Murray Hill Heights, after the Manhattan neighborhood, and more than half the lots are sold.
- 1914The streetcar line is extended to the neighborhood.
- 1916Murray Hill incorporates as a town, with Hugh Lauder its first mayor, bounded by Fishweir Creek, Lenox Avenue and Gilmore, Nelson and Kingsbury streets.
- 1925$300,000 in debt and nicknamed Murray Bottom, the town is annexed by Jacksonville; Wikipedia gives the date as 15 August.
- 1940sNaval Air Station Jacksonville opens in 1940, growth spreads west of Cassat Avenue, and about 1,700 homes are built in Murray Hill in the decade, its peak; the City buys the Murray Hill Playground land in 1941.
- 1949The Murray Hill Theatre opens on Edgewood Avenue with Red River: on 8 January in Wikipedia's account, in August in The Jaxson's. The City buys the lot and former Murray Hill Baptist Church that become Herbert Bayer Park.
- 1985The old church building at Herbert Bayer Park reopens as the Murray Hill Art Center, through the Murray Hill Civic Club and the City.
- 1995The theatre, a cinema until 1994, reopens as a Christian music venue; the same year a lighted walking trail is built at Murray Hill Four Corners Park with the Murray Hill Preservation Association.
- 2020The census counts 9,226 residents and 4,792 homes inside the association's line; owners live in 2,382 of the 4,394 occupied homes.
- 2021The school board votes 5 to 2 on 1 June to rename Robert E. Lee High School, the neighborhood's zoned high school on McDuff Avenue, Riverside High School, from 3 August.
Three City parks inside the line, and Boone Park across the boulevard
Murray Hill Playground on Kingsbury Street, about 10 acres, has ball fields, basketball and a splash pad. Murray Hill Four Corners Park, about 7 acres, has a lighted walking trail, and Powers Park is 13 acres of passive green. The old Murray Hill Baptist Church on Kerle Street has been the City's Murray Hill Art Center since 1985, and Avondale's Boone Park, with its tennis courts, is across Roosevelt Boulevard. The photographs here are downtown's riverfront.
What the map does not show: how often the creek actually rises. FEMA's 1% zone follows Big Fishweir Creek and its branches; read the map for the lot, and ask the neighbors.
Elsewhere in Jacksonville, not Murray Hill
23 places, with real drive times
Road-adjusted distance and drive time from the centre of the community to each destination, nearest first. Filter by category.
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Method: straight lines from OpenStreetMap's Murray Hill node, inside the boundary, times a road factor, with a tiered speed model: honest ranges, not routed times.
Every gym within reach
No City gym or YMCA is inside the line. The nearest City pools are outdoor summer pools at Riverside High School, just outside the boundary, and Mallison Park, north of the interstate. The nearest YMCA is the Winston Family YMCA on Riverside Avenue.
- Riverside High School Pool: about 1.6 km, early June to early August
- Mallison Park Pool: about 2.4 km, opened in July in 2026
- Winston Family YMCA: about 6.5 km, open every day
| Facility | What it is | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Riverside High School Pool open | The nearest City pool, at the high school on McDuff Avenue just east of the boundary: an outdoor summer pool, regular season 6 June to 2 August in 2026, 1 to 7 p.m. on weekdays. | 4–6 min |
| Mallison Park Pool open | The City pool at Mallison Park, 441 Day Avenue north of Interstate 10, which the City's aquatics page scheduled to open in July 2026; the park also has basketball courts and a community center. | 5–8 min |
| Winston Family YMCA open | The nearest First Coast YMCA branch, at 221 Riverside Avenue: 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday to Thursday, to 8 p.m. Friday, and 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. at weekends. | 9–13 min |
| Murray Hill Four Corners Park open | The free option: the lighted walking and jogging trail at Lawnview Street and Lamboll Avenue, inside the neighborhood. | 3–5 min |
The free option is the lighted trail at Murray Hill Four Corners Park, inside the neighborhood.
An A elementary at the center, and four other zones at the edges
Every address is in Duval County Public Schools, the only district in the county. At the reference point the zoned schools for 2026-27 and 2027-28 are Ruth N. Upson Elementary on Dancy Street, graded A for 2026 as for the two years before; Lake Shore Middle, C for 2026 after B; and Riverside High, Robert E. Lee High until 2021, C for three years running. Every resident shares the middle and high school.
| School | Board | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Ruth N. Upson Elementary School | Duval County Public Schools | 1090 Dancy Street, prekindergarten to grade 5, the elementary zone at the reference point for 2026-27 and 2027-28 and for 5,643 of the residents. Graded A for 2026, 2025 and 2024. The rest of the area is zoned to Pinedale Elementary (2,736 residents, C for 2026), Hyde Park Elementary (789, C), Bayview Elementary (46) and West Riverside Elementary (12). Run your own address in the district's Neighborhood School Locator. |
| Lake Shore Middle School | Duval County Public Schools | 2519 Bayview Road, grades 6 to 8, the middle school zone for every resident in 2026-27 and 2027-28. Graded C for 2026, B for 2025 and C for 2024. |
| Riverside High School | Duval County Public Schools | 1200 South McDuff Avenue, grades 9 to 12, the high school zone for every resident in both years; renamed from Robert E. Lee High School in 2021. Graded C for 2026, 2025 and 2024. The locator also says whether an address has priority for a magnet school. |
Run your own address. Upson's zone holds 5,643 of the residents; 2,736 are zoned to Pinedale Elementary and 789 to Hyde Park Elementary, both graded C for 2026, and a few dozen to Bayview and West Riverside. The district's Neighborhood School Locator gives both years and any magnet priority.
Month by month, what living here looks like
Not a highlights reel: the actual annual rhythm, including the dates residents have to remember.
- Highs near 19 °C and lows near 6 °C at Jacksonville International, with about six nights at or below freezing on the 1991 to 2020 normal; the airport is about 21 km north, and the normal is the city's
- If you bought last year, the homestead exemption is due with the property appraiser by 1 March
- Highs near 21 °C, lows near 8 °C and about 73 mm of rain
- Portability of a Save Our Homes benefit from a previous Florida homestead is a separate application, also due 1 March
- 1 March is the deadline for the homestead exemption and portability
- Highs near 24 °C
- Highs near 27 °C and about 74 mm of rain, one of the drier months
- The Murray Hill Farmers Market runs every Wednesday evening at Fishweir Brewing Co. on Edgewood Avenue, in the preservation association's listing
- Highs near 30 °C, with about eight days reaching 32 °C, and about 87 mm of rain
- The last month before hurricane season: the time to price a flood policy, which a homeowners policy does not replace
- The Atlantic hurricane season runs from 1 June to 30 November
- The wettest month on the normal, about 193 mm, mostly in afternoon thunderstorms
- The City's outdoor pools, Riverside High's among them, start their regular season in early June (6 June in 2026)
- Highs near 33 °C and lows near 23 °C, with about 24 days reaching 32 °C
- About 172 mm of rain
- The property appraiser mails the TRIM notice of proposed taxes in August (14 August in 2026), and a petition to the Value Adjustment Board is due 25 days after the mailing (8 September in 2026)
- The City pools' regular season ends in early August (2 August in 2026)
- Highs near 33 °C and about 175 mm of rain
- The Atlantic season peaks around 10 September; Irma's record river flood was on 11 September 2017
- About 192 mm of rain, nearly as wet as June
- Nor'easters can raise the water on the St. Johns without any tropical storm, in September as in October
- Highs near 27 °C, lows near 16 °C and about 102 mm of rain
- In October 2025 a nor'easter brought a coastal flood advisory and tidal flooding along the St. Johns River basin
- On 3 November 2026 Duval voters decide whether to continue the school board's 1-mill levy, approved in 2022, which state law makes them renew every four years
- JTA's weekday cuts start on 2 November 2026; the Orange Line stays at every 20 minutes
- Hurricane season ends on 30 November; tax bills go out this month, and paying in November earns the 4% discount
- Highs near 20 °C and about four nights at or below freezing
- About 71 mm of rain, among the driest months
- Property tax bills paid in December earn a 3% discount, against 4% in November, 2% in January, 1% in February and none in March
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