Boulevard defines the western limit of the district where a later commercial strip abuts the earlier residential area.

A few streets retain their original brick pavers and granite curbstones, but the majority are now covered with asphalt and have concrete curbs.

Scattered throughout the neighborhood are such decorative elements as hitching posts, cast iron fences, rusticated concrete block walls, and carriage stepping stones, testimony to the area's turn-of-the-century origins.

Construction was, therefore, limited to the occasional vacant lot or those sites where older structures had been lost or required replacement.

At the time the district was listed in the National Register, it contained 1,784 buildings fifty years old or older that contributed to its historical character.

The January 2010 issue of Southern Living magazine spotlights Springfield as the #1 "comeback" neighborhood in the South, noting significant improvement over the past decade.

[4] The December 2010 issue of Florida Trend Magazine also featured the Springfield Historic District in an article titled "A Life of Its Own".

Recently, the neighborhood has experienced renewed interest from developers; two brewery projects have been announced for the area, as well as two restaurants and a Walgreens community pharmacy, in 2016 alone.

These historic parks and structures which define the southern boundary of the neighborhood constitute 30.91 acres (125,100 m2) of Springfield or approximately five percent of the total land area.

Klutho was Jacksonville's most influential architect during the first years of the twentieth century and its leading proponent of the Prairie School.

Springfield is composed mainly of wood frame residential buildings and a much smaller number of masonry commercial, religious, educational, and civic structures.

There were 1,038 frame vernacular buildings in the historic district that possessed no discernible stylistic features, though in certain cases the decorative details may have been removed in later remodeling.

The wood-frame buildings that retain their original fabric are generally clad with weatherboard or novelty siding or, in a few cases, wood shingles.