Bungalow and Mediterranean Revival houses sit under live oaks along a bend of the St. Johns River, with the Five Points crossroads where Who's Your Monkey? filmed in 2006.
What Riverside looks like
Riverside Avenue curves along a bend of the St. Johns River, live oaks strung with Spanish moss over Mediterranean Revival and Colonial Revival houses behind iron fences and low stucco walls. The occupies one of these houses, its terraced gardens running down to the water at number 829. sits a few blocks south on the same avenue, a stone balustrade and a lawn of oaks above the river.
Away from the avenue the side streets hold one and two storey bungalows and craftsman cottages, most built from the 1910s through the 1930s. The sits on the same avenue. It is a red brick Prairie style residence from 1913, behind a low stucco wall and an iron fence. A few blocks over, a grey clapboard house with porch columns and a white chimney stands shaded by oaks.
Two of the district's older apartment buildings also stand on the avenue, the sixteen storey on Margaret Street and the two storey brick nearby, both from the 1920s. Park Street meets Margaret and Post Streets at . A 1927 theater building there keeps its original marquee over the sidewalk as , a live music venue. A corner market with green awnings is one of the storefronts beside it.
Shot in Riverside
The city's Film and TV Office puts Lonely Hearts, the 2006 film with John Travolta and James Gandolfini, at the Riverside address that is now Ascension St. Vincent's Riverside hospital. The same office also names Who's Your Monkey?, shot the same year. It points to , the crossroads a few blocks inland.
Who's Your Monkey?, 2006
Five Points
The 2006 comedy Who's Your Monkey? used the crossroads for exterior scenes, per the city's own Film and TV Office map. Throwing Stars LLC produced it. The 1927 theater building now operates as the music venue Five, and its marquee over the Park Street sidewalk marks the same corner today. Street View
What Riverside can double for
Ardsley Park in Savannah, Georgia
Ardsley Park's streets run wide and oak canopied, with the same bungalow and Colonial Revival mix under Spanish moss. The streets off Washington Avenue are the closest match in scale and canopy. Ardsley Park's lots and setbacks run deeper than Riverside's, and Savannah's squares would give it away in a wide shot. Tighter street level frames hold the illusion best. Try searching oak canopied bungalow streets now.
Hyde Park in Tampa, Florida
Hyde Park's bungalows and Mediterranean Revival houses date from the same Florida building boom as Riverside's, and Swann Avenue has a comparable run of porches and tile roofs. Both neighborhoods grew up as streetcar suburbs on open water. Hyde Park sits on the open water of Tampa Bay rather than a river bend, so a wide water shot looks like a bigger bay than the St. Johns. Try searching Mediterranean Revival bungalows now.
Wagener Terrace in Charleston, South Carolina
Wagener Terrace's brick bungalows and craftsman cottages sit on bluffs above the Ashley River under the same mossy live oak canopy. The scale and the porch fronts are close to Riverside's own side streets. Charleston's brick runs darker and its streets are narrower, so a frame that shows much curb or pavement looks like Charleston rather than Jacksonville. Try searching craftsman bungalow street now.
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