El Cid is the most prestigious historic community in West Palm Beach located just south of the Downtown area along the Intracoastal Waterway. Combined with its concentration of outstanding period architecture, the location of El Cid West Palm Beach (the west shore of the Intracoastal across from Palm Beach, the closest neighborhood to Downtown) attracts professionals and business owners who are proud to call El Cid historic district home. The El Cid Historic District is listed on the local, State and National Register of Historic Places. The neighborhood’s proximity to downtown and the western shore of Lake Worth attracted affluent business, political and social leaders who dominated the community’s development in the 1920’s and 1930’s. The early collapse of the banks in Florida, followed by the Depression, limited further development. After World War II, there was a burst of infill housing construction. Unfortunately, the movement to suburbia in the 1960’s diminished the area’s prosperity. But not for long. Beginning in the 1980’s and continuing for the past 25 years, The El Cid neighborhood has experienced a re-birth with the renovation and restoration of many of the District’s historic homes. See El Cid West Palm Beach homes for sale and for rent below.