Drive down landmark Center Street in Jupiter, Florida, and you could easily pass one of the town’s most charming restaurants without even realizing it’s there.
The Sims House doesn’t look like a restaurant from the road; it has no flashy signage out front to advertise its presence. But it’s one of the most unique restaurants in the area, a testament to the exciting possibilities around preserving Old Florida.
Built in 1924 by Eli Sims, a contractor, mason, and influential Jupiter pioneer, the Mission-style home is one of the town’s earliest surviving residences, dating back to Florida’s land boom of the 1920s. Sims arrived in the Jupiter area with his family in 1895 and later played an important role in the community’s development…