Live in Los Robles
A 1926 subdivision of 33 acres in the fork of Thomasville and North Meridian Roads, listed whole on the National Register in 2014, where the oaks, the gate and the 1930s houses are protected by a listing that is not, on its own, a local design review.
Los Robles was platted in 1926 on a 37-acre farm north of downtown, entered through a gate George Kerr Armes designed the same year, and named, as the County's history office puts it, for the oaks. The association's line and the Los Robles Historic District, listed on the National Register on 12 November 2014 with 70 contributing houses and one City park, follow the same three edges, so on this page the neighborhood and the historic district are nearly the same ground. The County's parcel file puts the median single-family house here at 1937 and the median lot at 0.22 acres, and 376 people lived in its 203 homes in 2020. What the listing does not do on the County's own map is put the houses under the Architectural Review Board: the Historic Preservation Overlay layer covers three small features by the gate and one lot, about 1% of the line.
Listed whole on the National Register, and barely touched by the County's review overlay
The area the Los Robles Neighborhood Association serves, as the Tallahassee-Leon County GIS office's Open Neighborhoods layer maps it (OBJECTID 180, an active neighborhood association; data last edited 2 September 2026), 33 acres, all of it inside the City limits: a line the association filed, not one the City drew. It is a triangle. Thomasville Road runs along its eastern side and North Meridian Road along its western side, the two meeting at the gate at its southern point, and the northern edge follows the rear lot lines of the houses facing Desoto Street, which is also how the National Register describes the historic district. Fernando and Cristobal Drives run through it, and Lake Ella is about half a kilometer to the west.
Los Robles was platted in 1926 on a 37-acre farm in the fork where Thomasville Road and North Meridian Road leave town together. The farmhouse was moved and still stands, George Kerr Armes designed the arched gate at the point of the fork that year, and the streets took Spanish names: Fernando, Cristobal, Isabel. Here Los Robles is the area the Los Robles Neighborhood Association serves, as the County's GIS office maps it: 33 acres, a line the association filed rather than one the City drew, all inside the City limits, with 376 residents in 203 homes in 2020.
The association's line and the historic district are nearly the same ground. The Los Robles Historic District was listed on the National Register on 12 November 2014: 70 contributing houses and one City park, bounded by the two roads and the rear lot lines of the houses facing Desoto Street, where the association's line also runs. The gate has been listed on its own since 1989. The sources differ at the edges: a State advisory of 2016 dates the listing to 2015, Wikipedia speaks of about 100 homes, and the County's parcel file holds 73 single-family parcels and 10 small multi-family ones.
What the listing does not do, on the County's map, is put the houses under design review. Leon County's Architectural Review Board reviews exterior changes to properties zoned with the Historic Preservation Overlay. The County's layer draws that overlay over three small features here, two at the gate and one lot, about 1% of the line, and over no block where people live. Its page does not say a Register listing alone brings a house before the board, and this guide found no rule that does, so settle the parcel's zoning with the Planning Department before buying a house to enlarge. North Meridian Road, the western edge, is a County canopy road; its 100-foot zone, drawn for planning purposes, covers 8.7% of the line. What the canopy rules permit was not read.
The houses are the 1930s. The parcel file puts the median single-family house at 1937, 44 of 73 at 1941 or earlier, on a median lot of 0.22 acres. No price index follows the line; Zillow's $239,971 for ZIP code 32303 in August 2026 covers 48,644 people and condominiums. A City address paid 19.2060 mills for 2025 across nine levies, $1,920.60 a year on each $100,000 of taxable value. Homestead takes $25,000 off every levy and a second $25,000 off all but the schools', about $826 a year. Save Our Homes caps a homestead's assessment at 3% a year and resets on sale, so the seller's bill understates yours; portability can carry over a previous Florida homestead's difference. Stormwater ($11.00 a month), garbage ($28.19) and a fire services fee come on the City's utility bill, beside the City's own electricity, water, sewer and gas. The fire fee's amount was not read, and residents sued over it on 17 November 2025.
The position is the point. Lake Ella and the Whole Foods on Thomasville Road are each about half a kilometer away, and Tallahassee Memorial 1.4 km. The bus is thinner: the stop at the line's edge is StarMetro's peak-only Killearn route, and the nearest all-day route, San Luis, is hourly at midday from 0.6 km away, at $1.25 a ride. Flood is not the question; the County's FEMA layer puts none of the line in a flood hazard area. Wind is: Hermine in 2016 cut power to about 65% of the City's electric customers on the National Hurricane Center's count and about 80% on the National Weather Service's. No source read maps how any street here fared.
- Ask the Planning Department how the parcel is zoned before pricing an addition, a demolition or new windows
- Ask the Property Appraiser what the house assesses at your price, not what the seller paid in tax
- Ask the City's utility customer service for the fire services fee at the address
- Look the address up on FEMA's flood map: a block point is not an address
- Run the address through the Leon County Schools zone lookup for this year and next
How Los Robles got here
- 1926Los Robles is platted on the site of a 37-acre farm between two main roads north of downtown; the farm's nineteenth century farmhouse is moved and still stands in the neighborhood. George Kerr Armes designs the gate at the junction of Thomasville and Meridian Roads the same year.
- 1930sThe decade that built the neighborhood: 38 of the 73 houses coded single-family on today's parcel file date from the 1930s, against 5 from the 1920s and 18 from the 1940s.
- 1987The Woman's Club of Tallahassee, which fronts the neighborhood's central park, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- 1989The Los Robles Gate is listed on the National Register on 21 September, reference 89001480.
- 2006The gate is restored for $150,000, with a steel structural arch and new Ludowici tiles, on Wikipedia's account.
- 2009FEMA's countywide flood maps for Leon County take effect on 18 August. At the guide's point the panel shows zone X, minimal flood hazard, and the County's layer puts none of the line in a special flood hazard area.
- 2014The Los Robles Historic District is listed on the National Register on 12 November, reference 14000902: 70 contributing residences and one City-owned park, roughly bounded by Thomasville Road, North Meridian Road and the rear lot lines of the houses facing Desoto Street. A State media advisory of 2016 gives November 2015; the State's own announcement of February 2015 already reported the listing.
- 2016Hurricane Hermine comes ashore east of St. Marks on 2 September. The National Hurricane Center counts about 65% of the City's electric customers without power and the National Weather Service about 80%.
- 2024Two EF2 tornadoes converge on Tallahassee on 10 May and break more than 400 utility poles, and Hurricane Helene in September leaves about 53,000 City utility customers without power at its peak. No source read maps either storm's damage by street here.
- 2026The County's GIS office maps the association's area at 33 acres on its Open Neighborhoods layer, last edited 2 September, the line this guide counts within.
Los Robles Park is the common, and Lake Ella is the walk
The open space inside the line is Los Robles Park on Isabel Court, 1.7 acres with picnic areas on the County's parks layer, and the one City-owned park the Register listing counts as part of the district. The Woman's Club building fronts the central park. For a longer walk, Lake Ella and Fred O. Drake Jr. Park, 18.5 acres with a trail around the water, a covered shelter and restrooms, is across North Meridian Road to the west.
What the map does not show: there is no playground or ball field inside the line. The nearest is Ninth and Terrace Park on East 9th Avenue, 1.9 acres with a playground, a basketball court and a youth ball field, on the far side of Thomasville Road.
24 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.
Showing 1–12 of 24 places, nearest first.
Method: distances and drive times are computed from the population-weighted center of the guide's 2020 census blocks, using straight-line distance multiplied by a road factor and a tiered speed model: honest ranges, not routed times. The walk column is for the three bus routes and the lake.
Every gym within reach
There is no gym or pool inside the line. The nearest City community center, at Lafayette Park on Ingleside Avenue, has a gymnasium and courts about a kilometer south. The City pools at Levy Park and the Trousdell Aquatics Center are each within about 2 km.
- Levy Pool, 609 West Tharpe Street: a City pool in Levy Park
- Trousdell Aquatics Center, 326 John Knox Road: the City's aquatics center
- Lafayette Park community center, 501 Ingleside Avenue: gymnasium and courts
| Facility | What it is | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Lafayette Park and Sue Herndon McCollum Community Center open | The nearest City community center, at 501 Ingleside Avenue on 20.6 acres: a gymnasium, tennis and basketball courts, a playground and a trail, on the County's parks layer. | 4–5 min |
| Levy Pool open | A City pool at 609 West Tharpe Street in Levy Park. Its season and hours were not read: check with the City before counting on it. | 4–7 min |
| Trousdell Aquatics Center open | The City's aquatics center at 326 John Knox Road. Its season and hours were not read. | 5–7 min |
| Trousdell Gymnastics Center open | The City's gymnastics center beside the aquatics center on John Knox Road, with a gymnasium. | 5–7 min |
The free option is the trail around Lake Ella, across North Meridian Road, and the shaded loop of Fernando and Cristobal Drives inside the line.
One zone for every resident, three schools graded B
Leon County Schools assigns a school by home address. On the district's 2026-27 zone layers the guide's point, and all 376 residents of 2020, are zoned for Sullivan Elementary on Miccosukee Road, Raa Middle on West Tharpe Street and Leon High on East Tennessee Street. The Florida Department of Education graded all three B for 2026, 2025 and 2024. Raa is also a magnet middle school, so part of its enrollment applies in.
| School | Board | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Sullivan Elementary School | Leon County Schools | Kate Sullivan Elementary, 927 Miccosukee Road, 1.35 km from the point in a straight line. The district's 2026-27 elementary zone layer puts the guide's point and all 376 residents of 2020 in its zone. The Florida Department of Education graded it B for 2026, 2025 and 2024. |
| Raa Middle School | Leon County Schools | Augusta Raa Middle, 401 West Tharpe Street, 1.09 km from the point: the zoned middle school for the point and every 2020 resident. It is also one of the district's magnet middle schools, so part of its enrollment applies in. Graded B for 2026, 2025 and 2024. |
| Leon High School | Leon County Schools | 550 East Tennessee Street, 1.87 km from the point: the zoned high school for the point and every 2020 resident. Graded B for 2026, 2025 and 2024. The zone layers carry no edit date, and the district approved an elementary zone change on 25 February 2025 that may not be in them, so check an address on the district's school locator. |
Check the exact address on the district's school zone lookup before you commit. The zone layers carry no edit date. The one elementary change the School Board approved on 25 February 2025 moved part of Riley Elementary's zone, not Sullivan's, but a newer change would not show here.
Month by month, what living here looks like
Not a highlights reel: the actual annual rhythm, including the dates residents have to remember.
- Normal highs near 18 °C and lows near 5 °C at the airport, with about 10 nights at or below freezing, the most of any month
- Lake Ella, half a kilometer west, was white with snow on 22 January 2025, in the library photograph on this page
- 112 mm of rain on the normal, and no snowfall normal at all: the station publishes none
- Highs near 20 °C, lows near 6 °C and about 5 freezing nights on the normal
- A buyer who closed last year files for homestead with the Property Appraiser by 1 March
- 109 mm of rain on the normal, falling on old oak limbs over old roofs
- Highs near 23 °C and 133 mm of rain, the wettest month outside summer
- About two freezing nights left on the normal
- The homestead application is due on 1 March: Form DR-501 to the Property Appraiser
- Springtime Tallahassee's 59th festival is on 2 and 3 April 2027, with its music on Kleman Plaza downtown, about 2.7 km south
- Highs near 27 °C and the last frost on the normal
- The Killearn route still stops at the Thomasville Road corner only at the peaks, with nothing between about 9 a.m. and mid-afternoon
- Highs near 31 °C, with about 13 days at 32 °C or more
- The month of the 2024 tornadoes, two EF2 storms that converged on the city on 10 May
- One of the drier months, 85 mm on the normal
- The Atlantic hurricane season opens on 1 June and runs to 30 November
- The wettest month on the normal, 197 mm, with about 20 days at 32 °C or more
- Storm damage here comes as wind, falling limbs and lost power, not surge: look at the limbs over the roof before the season
- Highs near 33 °C and lows near 23 °C, with about 25 days at 32 °C or more
- 181 mm of rain on the normal
- Lake Ella's loop is the shaded walk half a kilometer west
- The Property Appraiser mailed the 2026 TRIM notices of proposed taxes on 17 August; a petition to the Value Adjustment Board was due 25 days later, on 11 September
- Florida State's fare-free Seminole Express routes start on 19 August
- 193 mm of rain and lows near 23 °C
- Hermine came ashore on 2 September 2016 and Helene on 26 September 2024; both cut power to most of the City's customers
- Highs still near 31 °C, with about 17 days at 32 °C or more
- 125 mm of rain on the normal, still well above the autumn months that follow
- Highs near 28 °C and 82 mm of rain, among the driest months
- Nights fall to about 15 °C on the normal, from about 21 °C in September
- Hurricane season still runs to the end of November
- The Atlantic hurricane season closes on 30 November
- Highs near 23 °C and the first freezing nights, about two on the normal
- The driest month, 79 mm
- The City's Winter Festival is downtown on Saturday 5 December 2026 from 3 to 10 p.m., with the lighting ceremony at 6 p.m.
- About 7 nights at or below freezing on the normal, and highs near 19 °C
- The City's free holiday lights at Dorothy B. Oven Park, up Thomasville Road, run nightly in December
Every photograph in this guide's library is above
This library holds 6 photographs and the page has already printed all of them, each once. The credits are in the footer.
About these photographs. Openly licensed images geotagged in or near Los Robles, found on Wikimedia Commons and served from there with full attribution. Inline photos elsewhere on the page may still come from the site's shared Tallahassee library.