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WARNING - This trail may pass through one or more neighborhoods which, although full of history, may now be unsafe for individuals on foot, or which may make you feel unsafe there. Hikers have been approached by individuals who have asked for handouts or who have inquired (not always in a friendly manner) why the hikers are in their neighborhood. Drugs and other inappropriate items have been found by hikers in some neighborhoods. It is suggested that you drive the hike routes first to see if you will feel comfortable walking them and, if you don't think it's a good place for you walk, you might want to consider (1) traveling with a large group, (2) doing the route on bicycles, or (3) choosing another hike route. The degree of comfort will vary with the individual and with the time and season of the hike, so you need to make the determination using your best judgment. If you hike the trail, you accept all risks involved.
Designed by local architect Murry S. King, this home was built in 1921 for L.M. Autrey, the mayor of Orlando beginning in 1926. In 1930, Autrey sold the home for $65,000 to Clarence Thomas, the operator of a chain of stores in Michigan. The Autreys then moved back to Georgia.
This home features a low pitched hip roof with projecting eaves, Tuscan columns and horizontal bands of windows. This adaptation of the Chicago/Prairie School style also has dark bands of decorative brick and cement wall medallions.
W.L.B. Lawrence had a home here in the 1880s which was later torn down to make room for the Orange Court Hotel. Designed by Atlanta architect G. Lloyd Preacher with a Spanish Revival style, it opened on March 4, 1924. The hotel was demolished in 1990.
Across the street in later years were the Orlando Nurseries landscaping business in the 1950s and Streep Music Co.
On a portion of this property Edgar A. Richards, who arrived in Orlando in 1870, operated a coffin-manufacturing business.
The hotel, first named the Blackstone Hotel, was designed by F.H. Trimble and built by F.A. Peppercorn at a cost of $600,000. It opened for business in June of 1926. The businesses housed there included the North Orlando State Bank, which opened in August of 1926, Emerich's Cafeteria and WDBO radio, which went on the air there in 1927. The American Automobile Association opened an office there on January 30, 1930.
In 1946, the Orlando Morning Sentinel and the Orlando Star built a warehouse near the hotel, where the newspaper offices are now. The new printing plant opened here on August 12, 1951. The Sentinel-Star had begun in 1931 and was the successor to 12 previous newspapers, dating back to the Orange County Reporter in 1876.
The newspapers bought the hotel building in October of 1964 and tore it down on March 8, 1965, to make room for an expansion of their plant.
The clock outside formerly stood in front of Gus Lawton's jewelry store on Orange Ave., and then in the late 1940s in front of Happy Jack's used car lot on N. Mills Ave. It was installed here and returned to operative status in 1951.
M.M. Blanchford opened his art shop here in 1918, where customers could find "artistic gifts and afternoon tea."
This building dates from 1928-29. Firestone occupied it for 48 years. It was built by John H. Bull Company of St. Petersburg, and was designed by Francis J. Kennard & Sons of Tampa.
The tower is reminiscent of facade towers on early Christian churches in Rome and Ravenna. The building was later used as a night club.
This is Orlando's seventh courthouse, completed in 1997.
The W. Grimm Grocery Store was located here, a little north of the corner. It was considered a country store, since it was far from the business district. Next door to the north was the Orlando Ice Co.
This was the site of the home of T.J. Mathews who, in 1881, was an engineer in the S.A. Lacky lumber mill. It was bought in 1889 by Olive B. Floyd. In 1895, this was considered the edge of town.
The Howard Grain Company opened here in 1938.
The Cain-O'Berry Boiler Works were founded in 1900 for the repair and reconditioning of railroad engines. Harry P. Leu bought the O'Berry Boiler Stock Company (including four acres extending from the railroad to Garland Ave.) in 1926 and changed its name to Harry P. Leu, Inc. One of the products it sold was a line of fire extinguishers. The main building here was constructed in 1928.
The Duck Inn restaurant opened here in 1927, and later moved to the Empire Hotel. In 1934, W.J. Goodbread opened a lunch and soda stand here. In 1942, the Duck Inn moved to a new location on S. Orange Blossom Tr.
This building was substantially remodeled in 1995-96.
Mrs. A.M. Finch opened her Primrose Tea Room here in 1922. Four years later, this was the home of the Federal Loan & Discount Company.
The Mebane Buick Co. moved to this location on May 31, 1929. The showrooms continued to feature Buicks during the 1940s. In 1950, it was the home of Orange Buick Co.
In a vacant house, Mrs. N.F. Abbott opened a private school here in the fall of 1885. She and her school joined Rollins College in about 1892.
In 1888, George W. Burden of New York built the Arcade Hotel here. It burned down in the late 1890s.
The Citizens National Bank opened here in August of 1951. The present building was completed in 1967, with the poular Top of Citizens restaurant on the top floor. Embedded in the sidewalk on the Orange Ave. side, you may still be able to see the initials "CNB."
The name of the main tenant was later changed to Pan American Bank.
The block bounded by Orange and Magnolia Aves. and Jefferson and Robinson Sts. was bought by Bishop John Moore from Robert Reid of Palatka. On it, the Holy Nativity Catholic Church was built in 1887 for a cost of $50,000. The name was changed to St. James in 1888.
An 1889 storm took the roof off of it, and the city condemned it. A new church was built during the same year on the Magnolia Ave. side of the property.
In 1939, the Treasury Department bought the site of the present post office for $60,000, which was previously the site of the school and convent. The church donated the land necessary for the extension of Court St. A 1941 annex made the church L-shaped.
The new church designed by Donovan Dean and Arthur White and costing $400,000 was dedicated on March 9, 1952, and was renovated in 1974 for $350,000.
McDonald Tractor Company opened for business here in 1929. Later, the Violet Dell Florist was moved to this location by John Mays Caruthers from its first location in his home on Lake Ave. Next door to the south, H.A. Daugherty & Co. sold oil heaters in the 1940s.
Thomas J. Shine built a home in 1879 here on Jefferson St., named by him for his wife's family, descendants of Thomas Jefferson. Shine opened Jefferson St. and Orange Ave., which ended in an orange grove on the north. The property had frontage of 165 feet on Orange Ave. and 243 feet on Jefferson St. While it was owned by the Greetham family in 1919, Mrs. Harry E. Hand purchased it.
This was the site of the Jefferson Court Hotel, a three-story E-shaped building designed by George King and completed in 1918 for $125,000. It was the first apartment hotel on N. Orange Ave., and was torn down during the summer of 1954.
The next building at this location is known as the Haas Building. On July 21, 1960, the J.C. Penney Co. opened here. Penney's moved to the Florida Mall in 1985, and this building became the home of the traffic court.
Braxton Beacham Sr. and his brother, Chappel Beacham, came from Georgia in 1884. Braxton became the mayor of Orlando in 1907.
Braxton bought the Webber house here in 1900, and ten years later remodeled it into one of the most beautiful homes in Orlando at a cost of $75,000. In 1926, it was leased as an undertaking establishment, and then became The Palms Hotel operated by Mr. Taft of New Jersey. For a time, it was the home of Dr. F.L. Harms, who had his office on Court St.
The University Club used the building for its club rooms, and in 1932 it was acquired by Dr. E.E. Cady of Brooklyn. It was torn down in March of 1935 to make room for a $25,000 row of stores from Sears north to Jefferson St. One of those stores was the Kiddie Corner, a children's clothing store opened by Pauline Berman in 1946.
Claude H. Wolfe became the owner of Frigidaire Sales and Service here in 1928.
The Gibbs-Louis women's clothing store opened here in 1927. It moved out in the late 1990s and the building was substantially remodelled.
In 1914, W.W. Wright was selling Harley-Davidson motorcycles at this location.
Also known as the O'Neal Arcade, this Spanish-style building was completed in 1925 by Allardice and Allardice, Contractors. The Murphy portion faced Washington St. and the Autry portion still faces Orange Ave. A fountain was located at the intersection of the two sections, which included 50 rooms and offices. One early tenant was Dr. Jessie Takachshi. In the 1960s, the Red Cross Shoe Store and the Vogue Hat Shop were located here.
John H. Mooney came here from Tennessee in 1884, and had a house on this lot.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cole moved their Pioneer Jewelers to this location in 1927.
This was part of the Washington Street Arcade, built in 1921. One tenant in the 1940s was the Hall Bros. Insurance Agency. In the 1960s, Bill Baer sold televisions and stereos here. When much of the structure was torn down in 1971, this building remained.
Empire Studios had an office here in the 1950s. It filmed the first movie made in Florida by a Florida company, called "Yellow Neck."
Charles Henry Spellman moved here from Canada in 1885 and opened a beer garden at this corner. Adjacent were his home facing Washington St., and his Conway & Spellman grocery store facing Orange Ave.
George S. Goldsmith sold shoes here until 1930, when he moved to the Dickson-Ives Building. In the 1940s, the Ladies Outfitters clothing store was here.
This corner has been the location of the Phillips Apartments, built in the mid-1920s, and Sears, Roebuck & Co. Sears opened on June 28, 1931, and closed on May 4, 1974. The present building was erected in 1984-85.
This was the site of the home of Silas G. Dolive in the 1920s. He had owned Orlando's first bicycle. After the Dolive family were named Dolive Dr. and Dolive Ave., the latter being changed to Harding Ave. in 1924.
This was the site of a portion of the St. Charles Hotel, fronting on Washington St.
The corner was later the site of a filling station, a parking lot and a cab stand. The present building is constructed in the Art Moderne style, showing some transition toward Art Deco. In 1940, it was bought by Joseph Rutland from Lawrence Lawton for $78,000, and for many years was a popular clothing store.
This was the home of the Walter W. Rose Investment Company. It was built in 1924 by Walter W. Rose, who also developed several subdivisions including Rosearden, Rosemere, Rose Terrace, Eola Rose and Orwin Manor. Gus Lawton moved his jewelry store into the building in 1950.
Orange County built a jail here in 1884 at a cost of $10,700. It was torn down in 1925, the site was sold to Braxton Beacham for $17,500, and a new brick jail was built at the southwest corner of Court and Wall Sts. Later, on this corner was the office of Keene & Keene, optometrists, and the Walk-Over Shop, which sold shoes. During World War II, this was the home of Buddy's, a snack shop which attracted servicemen with donuts and coffee.
From the 1930s, children's clothing was sold here in a store owned by Nat and Pauline Berman. Prior to World War II, it had the state's most complete lines of clothing to outfit children from infancy to college.
Prior to 1908, located here was the hospital and residence of Dr. R.L. Harris. It was bought by Mrs. Charles I. Hilpert and her son Charles R. Hilpert, who moved here from Baltimore in 1902 and named it the St. Charles Hotel. It had a frontage of 78 feet on Washington St., and extended all the way to the Angebilt Hotel. They sold it in July of 1925 to L.M. Autrey and Arthur Landstreet, and in 1929 part of it was remodeled into the three-story Fidelity Building at 60 N. Court St.
After 1925, a business block was built in front of the residence. The block was torn down when the Rutland Block was built in 1942.
This was the office of Dr. F.L. Harms, a physician who practiced in Orlando from 1922 to 1942.
This is a descendant of H.R. Smith's Orange County Abstract Company, which was founded in 1883 and moved to this location in 1899. In 1929, Fidelity Title and Loan Company moved to this three-story building, which had been a part of the St. Charles Hotel.
The facade shows a Neoclassical Revival style, and the building was erected by A.E. Arthur.
A two-story brick city hall and jail were built here in 1885. It also was the site of the fire station until it moved to Magnolia Ave. in 1920. That same year, John Cook bought the old city hall and moved the Cook Automobile Company into it. In the mid-1920s, Frank Mebane bought the business. Later that year, he moved it to W. Central Blvd. Later, this was the site of the Western Union office.
E. Walter Hovater bought the old jail property on January 6, 1941. He used the property for parking.
Now a pedestrian walkway, this used to be a through street to Magnolia Ave. The street was cut short in 1956 when it was closed for the construction of the courthouse annex. This was originally named Oak St. for the grove of live oak trees bordering it.
The Orlando Savings and Loan Company was organized in 1922, and opened here in 1928.
A building was erected here in about 1920. In 1937, "Radio Nick" Nicholson opened his store here.
The L.C. Smith Typewriter Company opened its office here in 1922. The present building was erected in about 1948.
Here was the office of Joseph Fenner Ange, who built the Yowell-Duckworth Building and the Angebilt Hotel. Earlier, the Bass Hotel was located here.
C.A. Clouser of Longwood built a one-story building here in the 1880s. The retail business in it failed because it was too far from town.
In 1900, Charles Rock bought this lot and moved his bakery here.
After the 1884 fire that destroyed its printing plant, Mahlon Gore's Orange County Reporter moved into the old wooden courthouse building that had been bought by C.C. Beasley and moved to this location. In 1901, the Sorosis Club built their clubhouse here, a reproduction of the Biloxi, Mississippi, home of Jefferson Davis. In 1903, it became the home of the Rosalind Club.
Joseph Fenner Ange, who came to Orlando in 1913 from Martin County, North Carolina, announced plans for a $1,000,000 11-story hotel in June of 1921. He hired Murry S. King to design it and C.C. Hillyer to build it. It opened on March 14, 1923, with 250 rooms and a 10th floor dining room, where the University Club met. To make room, the old Rosalind Club building was bought by M.J. Daetwyler and moved to Colonial Dr. to be used as an apartment house.
This was the showplace hotel of the 1920s boom years. WLOF, Orlando's second radio station, opened in the hotel on October 26, 1940. In the 1990s, the building was remodeled to accommodate a portion of the Orange County Court System, while the new courthouse was being built.
Braxton Beacham Sr. built this in 1921 as Orlando's first theater. He also built the stores that extended to Washington St., giving him 213 feet of frontage on Orange Ave. and 145 feet on Washington St.
The theatre had its first formal opening on December 9, 1921. Beneath Orange Ave. is a tunnel that, before it was blocked about 30 feet into it, afforded performers an easy way to get to the Angebilt Hotel across the street.
The Beacham hosted vaudeville acts from 1921 to 1936, when it switched to showing first-run movies. They continued until 1975, when live musical acts appeared at what was then called the Great Southern Music Hall. For a time, it was Laser World, and then Moulin Orange, with live musical shows. It later was converted to a night club.
This was the location of Ben the Tailor from 1920 to 1947.
Charles Rock had his third bakery at this location beginning in 1900.
The long distance telephone exchange opened here in 1903. Rock enlarged the building to two stories in 1907.
In January of 1919, Sims Tire Company of Jacksonville opened a branch here. In 1945, it was leased to Diana Stores, Inc.
In 1884, Charles G. and Gilbert Lee opened a hardware store here. By 1900, it was Buford Duke & Co.'s Orlando Garage. The city's first fire station occupied part of the first floor, before it moved to Wall St. On the second floor were the offices of Dr. Calvin D. Christ and John M. Cheney, who owned the building.
The south store room was occupied by Seegar's Grocery, Nat Berman's Haberdashery, Nixon Butt's auto tires, and then Orlando Water & Light Company. The site was sold in 1919 to the State Bank of Orlando.
In 1922, the W.R. Link Tire Company, Jacocks Grove Co. and optometrist Dr. H.G. McGauhy had to move from this corner to make room for the ten-story bank.
Designed by Murry S. King and built by A. Bentley and Co., this was one of the three ten-story skyscrapers of the 1920s. It began as the State Bank and Trust Co. in 1923. The bank failed to open on August 6, 1929, and a receiver was appointed for it.
On March 30, 1930, the North Orlando State Bank was purchased by Alfred I. duPont and moved here from the Fort Gatlin Hotel. That bank became owner of this building in 1933. The name was changed to The Florida National Bank at Orlando in 1954, and it moved to 801 N. Orange Ave. on May 15, 1961. Orange County purchased this building in 1972 for $550,000.
In 1883, William A. Rowland and sons John and Robert came from Valdosta, Georgia, and in 1886 opened a grocery store at this site in a building constructed by Capt. L.M. Boykin. Later, Charles Henry Spellman opened a grocery store here at a time that it was known as the Brown Block, owned by I.A. Brown. The property was bought by Robert L. Hyer in 1892.
Sidney Ives Sr. arrived in Orlando in 1882, and the following year established the Ives Grocery Store on E. Church St. In 1896, he formed a partnership with H.H. Dickson, who had come from Atlanta in 1887, and moved the business to E. Pine St., changing the name to Dickson-Ives Grocery. Later, they moved to this site and a department store was added. By 1913, it was known as the Dickson-Ives Department Store.
The store was taken down in 1920, and a new four-story building was erected. It is embellished with a Beaux Arts/Classical terra cotta cornice and friezes. The department store went out of business on April 11, 1965.
It was the home of Goodwill until 1973, when that organization moved to E. Colonial Dr., and then was converted to law offices.
In 1917, Pappas Brothers bought fruit stores here and at 112 S. Orange Ave. In the 1930s, a drug store opened at this site.
This two-story brick building was erected to house Edward D. Hudnall's boot and shoe business in 1888. It was later sold to James A. Knox.
In 1890, Eugene Duckworth bought the south half (24 S. Orange) and operated a shoe store in it, and combined with Newton Yowell. This was also called the Estes Building.
Harry S. Wilson had a shoe store in 22 S. Orange Ave. until he moved to another location in 1930. The Federal Bake Shop was located at 20 S. Orange Ave. during the 1930s, and later moved to 24 S. Orange Ave.
Henry S. Kedney of Minnesota settled in Maitland in 1870 and moved to Orlando in 1885. He had the first section of a magnificent hotel built here in 1886 with an Empire style. It was a $150,000 three-story building with a flat roof and tower that contained the city clock. It was named after San Juan de Ulloa, an early Spanish explorer of Florida.
The post office was moved here from the Kuhl-Delaney Building in 1890, and remained here until 1898.
In 1893, the hotel was bought by Harry L. Beeman of the Cleveland chewing gum family. He added two stories, removed the clock, and added a mansard roof.
A seven-story addition was built on the north end in 1923. Beeman had New York architect W.L. Stoddart design it.
In September of 1928, Sharkey's Restaurant opened in the hotel. The Hart Swalstead jewelry store was located here. In 1937, Frances Slater opened an exclusive dress shop in it.
The hotel closed on September 7, 1975, and was torn down in August of 1980.
A traffic signal tower was erected at this intersection in June of 1925, and was torn down in September of 1937 after it was considered to be a traffic hazard.
This was originally an oak grove where outdoor meetings were held. Under a brush arbor, visiting preachers conducted monthly services. It then became Foster's Livery Stable operated by Maj. P.A. Foster. Later, E.J. Reel joined him and it became Foster and Reel's Livery Stable. Mrs. Foster wanted to be able to contact her husband, so he bought his own poles and equipment and ran a phone line from the stable to his home on Miller Ave., the first telephone in Orlando. Prior to that, William A. Patrick operated a cotton gin and grist mill here.
E.J. Reel had arrived in Orlando in 1882, and later became the mayor. Reel St. was named for him, and was later renamed Westmoreland St.
Newton Pendleton Yowell of Virginia came to Orlando in 1884, bought out the stock of the Menefee and Palmer Dry Goods Store, and opened a dry goods store ten years later at the corner of Orange Ave. and Pine St. Later, he moved into two floors of a larger building across Orange owned by S.E. Ives Sr. and H.H. Dickson, and called it the Big White Store.
In 1913, he and Eugene Duckworth had Murry S. King design and build this $61,000 four-story brick building to house the Yowell-Duckworth Company. It contained Orlando's first elevator. The fifth floor and a three-story furniture annex (since destroyed) were added in 1919. After Duckworth sold his interest to Benjamin Drew, the business was known as Yowell-Drew.
In 1944, the business was bought by the J.B. Ivey Company of North Carolina, and was known as Yowell-Drew-Ivey, then Ivey's Department Store. In 1948, the building was sold to Prudential Insurance Company for $950,000. The name was shortened to Ivey's in January of 1953. The department store closed on January 30, 1976.
A Mrs. Middelshauf sold hand cream here in the 1920s. In 1925, Charles Emerick leased this building for a term of 99 years. In April of 1930, Lerner's Store began leasing space here.
Dr. James Nixon Butt of North Carolina moved his drug store here from the office he had previously built on Church St. near the depot.
In 1920, Boone & Voorhees sold home heaters here. The following year, Mixon's Bootery opened here. In 1922, this building with its frontage of 30 feet on Orange Ave. was sold to the J.G. McCrory Stores Corporation for $80,000. During the 1930s, one tenant was the Daniel Clothing Co.
In 1926, A.B. MacCaughey of Chicago bought Riddle's garage at this location. Morrison's Cafeteria operated here until 1980, when it was demolished to provide room for parking for the building on the corner.
In July of 1929, Empire Tire & Sales Company was sold to Don Miller of Lakeland, who operated it as Murray Tire Company.
This four-story brick building was built in 1913 by James Bailey Magruder. Before being remodeled as an office building in the 1960s, it was Orlando's first air-cooled hotel. It later housed a portion of Webster University.
The headquarters of a local coach line opened in a Spanish-style building in 1922. It offered sightseeing trips in Orlando, Winter Park and Ocoee.
At this location, the McElroy-Daley Company became a distributor for the Auburn automobile in February of 1935. For a time, this site was the home of the Duck Inn. Later, it was the Tramor Cafeteria, taken over by the Morrison's chain after years of competing with it.
The Mandarin Inn restaurant opened here in 1926.
The Presbyterians erected a 40' x 60' frame church here in February of 1883 at a cost of $4,000.
In 1896, this became the site of the railroad depot and freight depot of the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (formerly the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad). A later depot was built in 1924 and demolished in 1955 to make room for a parking lot. A new depot was then constructed on W. Amelia St.
After Oscar Hand & Son left the furniture business, the firm entered the real estate business with an office at this location.
George A. Barker of Alabama came to Orlando in 1887, and later opened a paint shop here. Before him, Peter Mack had a winery at this location.
This was the site of the South Florida Foundry and Machine Works, one of the city's first industries. it was organized in 1886 by E. Frank Sperry (mayor 1914-17 and president of Orlando Citrus Exchange), Charles E. Johnson, and William C. Smith from England. It produced metal castings, machine works, iron pipe, architectural iron work, columns, iron stairs, balcony railings, grille work, fencing, and locomotive wheels.
This building was erected in approximately 1897. Most of the foundry was located adjacent to it to the north. In 1916, it became the agency for the sale of the "Dart" automobile. The business was destroyed by a fire in 1917.
In 1929, Carey Hand bought this former wagon works property for $50,000. Across the street at 57 W. Pine St. was the Blunk-Hightower Furniture Building.
The Trade Wind Restaurant was located here, next door to the Astor Theatre.
Elijah Hand settled in Orlando in 1885 and opened a furniture store across the street. His son, Carey, arrived to join his father in business in 1907, and had this building designed by F.H. Trimble built in 1919-20. It is considered to be in the Romano-Tuscan style. It is one of the few downtown buildings with a cellar. The funeral home closed its doors in 1987. The University of Central Florida acquired the location for a branch campus. In a building formerly located in the area now used as a parking lot for this building, the Tri-Weekly Star newspaper was published from 1896 to 1898.
L.J. Dollins arrived in Orlando in 1876 and was admitted to the bar in 1885. In 1887, he built the three-story Dollins Block here. It was later the site of the Astor Hotel, and in 1914 the Grand Hotel opened over the Grand Theatre. In 1953, the theatre's name was changed to the Astor Theatre.
In 1911, J.B. Smith opened a cigar manufacturing plant here.
This was formerly the site of the Magnolia Hotel, one of the prominent Orlando hotels of the late 19th Century. "Big Tom" Shine built it here, diagonally across the street from the Charleston House. In 1886, it was turned to face Pine St. In 1894, Shine moved it 150 feet to the west to make room for Dr. J.M. McElroy's building. Elijah Hand of Indiana moved to Orlando in 1885, bought the hotel in 1905, and by 1907 moved it back on the lot to make room for this brick building. He used it as a warehouse for his furniture store and funeral parlor. Later brick Late Victorian style additions replaced or enclosed what was left of the Magnolia Hotel. In 1928, the Mather-Wiley Furniture Company moved here to 17 W. Pine St. from its former location on N. Orange Ave. Prior to that, this location was the home of the W.I. Miller Furniture Store. Before Hand, the first embalmer in Orlando, those who died before noon were buried the same day in the afternoon. Those who died int he afternoon were buried the next morning.
In 1884-85, John Henry Mooney built a block of stores and sold pianos and organs here. Dr. N.L. Bryan gave up dentistry in 1920 and opened a real estate office here.
In 1920, the Christian Missionary Alliance Church located here was sold to the Salvation Army for $15,000.
This Commercial style structure was built in 1925 for a Hall of Fame baseball player living in Orlando, Joe Tinker. The first floor housed the Singer Sewing Machine Company. It was later known as the Palmer Building, and in 1940 it was sold to Carey Hand.
The Chimney Tea Room was opened in December of 1936 by S.S. Arnett at this location.
A liberty kitchen was in operation here for a brief time beginning in 1918.
Charles Rock moved to Central Florida from Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1883, and opened his first bakery here, behind the Sinclair and Mills real estate office. He was located between the A.D. Bernway Barber Shop in the east and B.B. Campbell's Restaurant on the west.
Built in 1886, this replaced the Magnolia Hotel, which was then moved to the lot behind this one. This was built for O'Connell Bros., Painters and Decorators. R.N. Menefee arrived from Virginia in 1885 and went into the dry goods business with J.N. Shuler on Pine St. Later, they moved into the north half of the building here. Jerome Palmer clerked in the store, and in 1889 became a partner, with the name of the firm changing to Menefee and Palmer. Palmer later had his own clothing store at this location. By 1891, the building was known as the Empire Block. In 1896, John Lennon took over the Orlando Telephone Company and moved it to the Empire Building at this site.
Also known as the McElroy Building, it was constructed by James Newton "Old Doc" McElroy in 1894. He named it for his wife, Queen Esther "Queeny" Peel, and it remained in his family, passing to his grandchildren. Tenants of the building included the Abernethy Drug Store, Walgreen Drug Company (which opened on February 1, 1935, and moved to Colonial Plaza in 1955) and the Southern Music Company in the 1950s and 1960s. In the mid-1980s, Don Reynolds painted a large mural on the front wall of a Florida cracker coming into town on an ox wagon. The building was destroyed by a fire on February 19, 2005.
James L. Giles built a portion of this block in 1893. In 1885, C. Joy had built the Joy Building on the corner. Later, it was called the Watkins Block. An early occupant at this site was T.C. Sutton's Clothing Store. In 1916, Dr. P. Phillips announced plans for a $50,000 theater here, with Murry S. King as the architect. The actual cost turned out to be $100,000. It had a frontage of 75 feet on Orange Ave. and 124 feet on Pine St. When it was completed in July of 1917, it was leased to Braxton Beacham. Dr. Phillips leased it in 1923 to United Stores Corporation. Berman's Specialty Shop sold dresses in a portion of the building during the 1920s. In 1929, it was renamed The Ritz Theatre. A portion of the building also housed Butler's Shoes. In 1934, Dr. P. Phillips leased the building to W.T. Grant Stores. The W.T. Grant Company declared bankruptcy in October of 1975, and the downtown store was phased out during the following month. It was replaced by the Diskay Discount Mart. In 1885, a large cistern was built in the intersection, with the water intended to be used for dousing fires. It was filled in with dirt the following year.
In 1885, Mrs. R.G. Dick and Mrs. Fenn of Fall River, Massachusetts, opened Orlando's first millinery and fancy goods store here. In 1892, it was the site of the Watkins & Co. Real Estate Agency. Donald and Maynard Evans in 1917 opened the Evans Drug Store here. When J. Walter Rex purchased an interest in 1918, it became the Evans-Rex Drug Company. Upstairs, Drs. W.M. and Josephine Harper practiced osteopathic medicine.
H.A. Lucky opened the 30-room Lucky House hotel on January 1, 1882. Later, it was called the Charleston House. It began to draw the business center of the town away from courthouse square to Orange Ave. James L. Giles of Zellwood bought it and sold half to the Tremont Hotel and half to Judge A.R. MacCallum. Giles then built Orlando's first brick business block here in 1893, and named it the Giles Building. The post office moved here in 1898. On this site in 1906 was built the regional headquarters of J.G. McCrory & Company. It was replaced in 1942 by the present Art Moderne style building, which housed McCrory's until 1989, and then became the home of Q-Zar Laser Tag. The building was torn down in December of 2003.
Orlando's first stationery store was established here in about 1880 by Pat Palmer. He sold it in 1886 to E.P. Hyer, and it was acquired in 1889 by W.R. O'Neal and F.A. Curtis. After Curtis' death, it was consolidated with the O'Neal-Branch Co. The Newark Shoe Store opened here on April 15, 1927. In 1935, the Duval Jewelry Company moved here.
During the 1880s, the Rice Bros. Furniture Store was located here. In the 1920s, the Japanese Store and the H.C. Babcock real estate office were located here. In March of 1927, this building was leased to the G.R. Kinney Shoe Store. The Darling Shop opened here in 1940.
In the 1880s and 1890s, this was the site of the Sinclair Real Estate Agency. In the center of the intersection was a city well for use in putting out fires. In 1893, First National Bank moved here from across the street. After the 1895 freeze and bank failure, the Empire Drug Store moved in, run by Dr. Leo P. Lawrence. When Dr. Lawrence died, it again became a bank. The former building was replaced by one of Orlando's three original "skyscrapers", opening in 1923. A.G. Bentley received a $300,000 contract to build this ten-story building. It had its formal opening on May 20, 1924. It housed the Orlando Federal Savings and Loan Association. In 1926, Frank Haithcox sold his Lucerne Pharmacy located here to H.L. Hicks for $10,000. When Orlando Bank & Trust Company failed in 1932, Henry W. Metcalf of New Hampshire bought it for $125,000 and renamed it the Metcalf Building. In 1936, the Liggett Drug Store opened here. Dr. Fred E. Myers and Associates bought the building in 1948 for $240,000. Later, it was the location of Orlando Bank & Trust Co. and Household Finance Corporation. Underneath the building is one of the largest cellars in downtown Orlando, which was transformed into Tanqueray's Bar & Grille.
During the 1880s, this was the site of Carpenter's Shoe Repair. The Pappas Brothers had one of their two fruit stores here in 1917. In 1930, Harry S. Wilson moved one of his shoe stores from 22 S. Orange Ave. and consolidated it with his other store at this location.
In the 1940s, this was the home of Miller's Dress Shop, where one could purchase Schwobilt Clothes.
The Deadrick Tin Store was located here in the 1880s. The Schwab Clothing Store was operating here during the 1930s.
The wrought iron balcony is original and dates to 1912, when the Davis Building was constructed. In 1918, this building was sold to A.M. Cooper of Philadelphia for the manufacture of caskets by the Monolithic Casket Corporation.
In 1917, Dr. J.H. Joslin opened his chiropractic office at this location, where Billie Williams had previously operated a saloon. Three years later, Clement D. Cates & Company, a stock brokerage firm, opened here. In the 1920s, attorneys Graham & Sherman had their offices here. Later, First Bond & Mortgage Company operated its business here and went into backruptcy in August of 1933.
This is the eastern entrance to this L-shaped building, which also fronts on W. Church St. This was the site of the Alligator John Curio Shop in the 1880s and the Charles Rock bakery during the 1890s. Turner H. Evans, who arrived here from Mississippi in 1890, had his jewelry business where the present front door is. The Kress Store opened here in 1931 in a new $250,000 building. The S.H. Kress & Company signed a $594,000 99-year lease for the space.
In 1913, Drs. R.M. Buckmaster and Clarence Brundage of Kirksville, Missouri, opened their osteopathic offices here. Gus Lawton had a jewelry store here until 1950. Outside was the large clock which now stands on Orange Ave. near the Sentinel newspaper office.
Henry W. Metcalf built a saloon here in 1880. During that decade, Florence Van Horn also operated a dressmaking business at this corner. A.H. Birnbaum had a dry goods store here in an old two-story wooden building. This was later the site of the White House Candy Palace, built by Silas Dolive of Alabama. It burned in 1907. In 1926, First National Bank announced plans for a $300,000 building to replace it. It opened here on March 24, 1930, and moved across the street in 1960. Don Mott bought this building in 1959 and moved his real estate department here in 1960. This building designed by Howard M. Reynolds shows a transition from Art Moderne to Art Deco traditional styles. Since May 29, 1987, it has been known as the Chicone Building. This was the site of the USO recreation center in 1964-65, a campus of the Florida Technological University from 1965 to 1968, Jones Business College from 1969 to 1971, and Valencia Community College since 1975.
This was the location of the largest furniture store of its time in Florida, started by Cassius Boone (1850-1917), who arrived here in 1870. His partner, beginning in 1881, was William A. Patrick. The building was bought by Joseph L. Guernsey in 1895, who operated the Guernsey Hardware Company here from 1895 until 1922. In 1923, the Woolworth Company obtained a 99-year lease on that building. It was torn down in July of 1924 to make room for a new $100,000 Woolworth Store, built by Franklin J. Mason. It was torn down in December of 2003.
In 1871, Charles Franklin McQuaig moved to Orlando and built a home near this corner. James McElroy of Tennessee came to Orlando in 1881, built a two-story wooden building here, and painted it bright blue. He named it the Blue Drug Store, and the business was operated by him and his family until June 18, 1948, when they sold the stock and fixtures to Stroud's Drug Store. McElroy had built the store up to be the largest drug trade in Central Florida. It had Orlando's first telephone exchange, first plate-glass storefront, and first electronic eye door. Virginia Dare, a women's dress shop with the slogan "For Those Who Dare", opened here in 1948. The building in which it was located was torn down in December of 2003.
Drs. J.Y. Mullins and R.H. Peak erected a wood frame building here in the early 1880s, with an apothecary shop on the first floor. Later, it was known as Peak & Williams. It was torn down in September of 1927, and the two-story Wilmott Building was built in its place. One of its early tenants was the Waldorf Shop, sold in 1928 to L. and P. Perger. The building was torn down in May of 1975.
Charles Franklin McQuaig arrived here from Georgia in 1871. He owned a drug store here, started by Dr. John William Miller of Alabama, and operated under the name of Blitch & McQuaig. A.M. Hyer built a store here, taken over by W.A. White in 1879. He had his Oviedo home torn down and rebuilt on W. Church St. Before banks, many people in Orlando kept their valuables in the large iron safe in White's General Supplies Store. After White, William Melville Slemons moved his store from W. Church St. to the White Buiilding. Later, George and Ned Rice had a furniture store here, then it was a livery stable until the building burned down in 1906. Later, this was the site of the City Luggage and Jewelry Co. store. In 1956, the old buildings located here were razed to make room for the new 14-story First National Bank Building. It was designed by Kemp, Bunch & Jackson, and built by Sipple, Thompson & Street Co. Ground was broken on July 31, 1958, and the bank opened on March 7, 1960.
W.M. Mathews in 1903 established two saloons in an old building here, one for whites and one for blacks. They burned in 1907, 20 minutes after the announcement of the results of an election making Orange a "dry" county. Prior to Mathews, this was the site of the Skillman Well Drilling business.
In 1919, the Southern School of Commerce opened here. The first brick streets in Orlando (including this one) were laid in 1907, and many were later coated with asphalt. The sidewalks here and along the west side of Orange Ave. were first laid in 1883, making them the city's oldest.
In the 1870s, Hong Lee's Chinese Laundry was operated here. After that, it was the Price Harness Shop. Later, it was the site of the Orland Hotel. The hotel was razed to make room for the First National Bank Building.
At this site in 1913, Drs. William and Josephine Harper opened osteopathic offices. This building dates from 1935, as evidenced by the Art Deco details around and above the Orange Ave. entrance. It was designed by Edward F. Sibbert of New York, and built by the G.A. Miller Company. The S.H. Kress & Co. was founded in 1896 with the goal of selling quality merchandise at the lowest possible prices. Samuel H. Kress established an architectural division within the company in about 1905, and which operated until 1944, to design the interiors and exteriors over 200 stores throughout the U.S. At the time this building was erected, the division had about 100 employees who created facades which featured the Kress logo and fit into the surrounding streetscape. The designs encouraged customers to come in and directed them to efficiently-displayed goods. Kress was acquired by another company in 1964 and unprofitable stores began closing. In 1980, what remained of the company was liquidated, but many of the downtown stores remain as offices, shops and restaurants.
A clothing business opened here in 1926 with R.J. Lima as manager. Next door to the east in the 1920s and 1930s was Baker's Meat Market and one location of the All American Thrift Stores.
In 1884, Edward Kuhl had a candy store here. In the 1890s, he and James L. Giles operated a general store in its place. This building represents the Victorian/20th Century Commercial style, and was erected in 1911. L.T. Hunt and T.C. Branson bought the site in 1909, and incorporated an existing one-story building into the present two-story structure. One of the first tenants was Archie McDowell's candy store.
Dr. E.S. Hoffman, an oculist and optician, opened his office here in 1918. The Sunbank Center, including this tower, was dedicated on November 11, 1988.
In 1920, general contractors Villinsuve and Evans had an office here. Edward A. Rozier, Jr. opened his Little Brass Rail here in 1921. During the 1930s, it became the home of Curry Electric Company.
John E. Nicholson of Hamilton, Ontario, came to Orlando in 1884, and in 1893 bought a two-story block and opened a grocery and bakery. It replaced the Ives & Ferguson Groceries & Express. The present building was erected in 1911 by J.A. Colyer. It has been used for a dry goods store, pawn shop, and the tailor shop of Colyer and Williams. Colyer was the only black owner-businessman in downtown Orlando at the time. At 33 W. Church St., Emrick's Orlando Pharmacy was located during the the 1930s and 1940s. Upstairs, Dr. F.M. Jolly manufactured dentures. Herman's Loan Office was located at 27 W. Church St.
Just after 1900, this was the site of the Routh & Caldwell Sheet Metal Company.
In 1911, W.A. Irvine opened a grocery store in the former Matthews Store. To the west was McCulloch's Dry Goods Store, which he sold in 1925 to W.H. Swan & Company, which sold clothing. Later, that was the site of the Freymark Drug Company until R. Marvin Howard bought it in 1936 and changed the name to the Howard Drug Company.
The W.H. Swan Company moved into this building in 1933, between the Rialto Theatre and Emerich's Pharmacy. The J.C. Penney Company opened here on October 17, 1940. In September of 1949, the building was sold for $165,000. It was formerly Sam Behr's "We Can Fit Any Human" Shoe Store, before that business moved to N. Orange Ave.
Brothers Burchard and Edward Kuhl came from Mississippi in 1873. Burchard lived approximately here. He bought land from Gore St. to Lake Copeland and opened Annie St., named for his wife. Later, this was the site of John Cook's blacksmith and buggy shop, which he moved to another location in 1905. In 1913, Nick Belitz had a grocery store here. The Rialto Theatre opened here on April 19, 1926, and operated into the 1960s.
Before building a courthouse, Orange County in 1857 first used a two-room log cabin just east of the railroad station for county business. In the west room, religious groups and the first school had their gatherings. Julia Buchan organized the first school. After arriving from North Carolina in 1883, Dr. James Nixon Butt built a brick drug store here. When he moved to another office on Orange Ave., Dr. James Horace Smith from Georgia moved in here. During the 1880s, this was also the home of the N.P. Nemo Dry Goods Store and Campbell's Pumps & Wells. This is now the site of the Church Street Market shopping complex.
The first wooden train station on this site served the South Florida Railroad, which reached Orlando in 1880. The first train arrived on October 2, 1880, with regular service beginning the following month. A brick station opened on January 14, 1890. That station was replaced with this Late Victorian style brick building in 1900. The steam engine adjacent to the station is "Old Duke," built in 1912 at the Baldwin Steam Engine and Iron Works in Baldwin, Ohio. Behind the train station, at the northeast corner of Jackson St. and the railroad tracks, was the building of the Fidelity Storage and Transfer Co., an early example of functional reinforced concrete. It was the home of Eatsum Products Corp. In 1963, a 12,000 pound steel weather ball was installed atop Fidelity's building. The ball, with a diameter of 18 feet on a tower 150 feet tall, turned green if the weather forecast was good, red if it was bad. Its owners used different colored spotlights to illuminate it.
This shopping complex replaces a number of old businesses. Included are the Dixie Music Company (55) which opened in April of 1926, the Smith Furniture Store (45) which was opened by Aubrey Smith of Georgia in 1881, and the Orlando Pharmacy (43) which Herbert A. Smith operated here for 16 years.
Samuel G. Evans of Kentucky, beginning in the 1880s, operated the Orlando Grain and Commission Company here. Across the avenue on the west side was the Waterhouse and Russell location. George I. Russell arrived in 1885, and went into the grain, grocery and fertilizer business with S.S. Waterhouse.
This area, including the adjoining railroad right-of-way, was Orlando's widest street (100 feet wide) before the railroad came through in 1880. Gertrude Ave. is named for the sister of C.D. Sweet, the mayor in 1881. A portion of the former avenue is called Gertrude's Walk, leading north from here.
In 1884-86, Joseph Bumby built this large Late Victorian Commercial style red brick building across the street from his warehouse, and it turned into a legendary hardware business. His slogan was "If you can't find it - go to Bumby's." Although Joseph died in 1911, the business was carried on by his family until 1966. It was later the site of the Buffalo Trading Company.
Joseph Bumby came from Colchester, England, and established a warehouse at this site. From it he sold hay, grain and fertilizer. Having had railroad experience in England, he became the first railroad freight and ticket agent in Orlando, and his store here served as the first depot in 1880 and 1881. In the late 1880s, W.L. and Silas Dolive operated a packing house here. The present structure was known as the Teele Building, built in 1924. In it was Sam's Bar and Grill. Later, it was a restaurant known as Phineas Phogg's Balloon Works.
Aquilla E. Christopher came here from Atlanta in 1880. His family bought a six-room house here and remodeled it into the 18-room Georgia House hotel.
This was built in 1922 and operated as the Strand Hotel. As part of the Church Street Station entertainment complex, it was known as Lili Marlene's Aviator's Pub and Restaurant.
The adjacent buildings of Joseph Bumby were the Arcade, built in 1920, and the Annex, built in 1886. When they became part of Church Street Station, known as the Bumby Emporium, the revolving doors were added. They came from London, where they were used in the Lloyd's of London Building in about 1905.
This was the entrance to the three-story shopping and entertainment complex known as the Church Street Exchange, which opened in 1987. Just inside the entrance was a restaurant known as Apple Annie's Courtyard. This was formerly known as the Leon Building, erected in 1920, where the Leon Jewelry Store was located.
In the 1880s, Nicholas Mernaugh operated a grocery store here. In 1920, this is where the Purcell Building was erected. Purcell's store was one of the pioneer businesses of Orlando. Called Purcell Country, it offered riding clothing and equipment. The Church Street Bank was organized in May of 1923, and later moved in here. The bank closed on January 30, 1928. Lodge 69 of the Free and Accepted Masons was chartered on January 13, 1876. They built their first home at this intersection on a lot donated by W.A. Patrick, and completed it on April 1, 1882. In 1886, the Orlando Colored School was established at this intersection in a frame building. It was later moved to a larger building at the corner of Jefferson and Chatham Sts. and renamed Johnson Academy in honor of Lymus Johnson, who was the principal until 1906.
This site began as the Slemons Department Store, a major dry goods establishment, operated in a frame building. The later brick Orlando Hotel was erected in 1924. Preserved are its pressed metal ceiling, the mezzanine, and the tile awning on the second floor facade. It was built by J.C. Hanner Construction Company. For a time, it was occupied by a clothing store owned by Nat and Pauline Berman, who later sold it to brothers Ben and Sam Arstein. In 1950, the building was bought by the Belk-Lindsey Company. In 1973, Steve Fuller and Bob Snow bought the property for the development of Church Street Station. This building was transformed in 1974 into the Rosie O'Grady's Goodtime Emporium.
Boone Ave. formerly continued north to Church St., but has been closed for the construction of this garage. Dr. John William Miller of Alabama moved to Orlando in 1881 and bought several lots on Jackson St. from Orange Ave. to Boone Ave., and built a home on it, then known as Boone St. He established the drug store which was operated by Blitch and McQuaig. The site was later used for L.B. Sanders' B&J Service Station. Also at this intersection was the A.J. Nye packing house, which he sold in 1930. It then became the location of the Hudson Distributing Company.
Judge William C. Nutt built a large Victorian style home here in 1895, and it was later acquired by Dr. Joseph Rush. Elmer S. and Mary Ella Keyes bought it in 1919, and the city acquired it in 1977. It was razed in 1979 for the construction of a parking lot, and later a parking garage.
Cassius Boone built his home here on the northwest side of Lake Lucerne in 1875 with an address of 104 Irvine St. Boone cut a road, now known as Boone Ave., from the house through the woods to Church St. The home was razed in 1959 to make room for the Orlando Day Nursery. Irvine St. was eliminated with the construction of the OUC Building.
Located on this corner was Orlando's smallest city park, having been squeezed on all sides by pavement taking over much of the former grass and other plants. It became little more than a large gravesite for the police dog which was buried here, and was eliminated in 1999 to make room for this building. To the north of the park, Dr. Sylvan McElroy built a $20,000 apartment house, on the site of his former home, in 1921. George Krug designed it.
George Abbott of Moorestown, New Jersey, came here in 1882 and bought attorney W.L. Peeler's house which sat on this site. Abbott organized the Lake Lucerne Improvement Association and had a shell walk laid around the lake. The house was later demolished. Later, Will and Viola Miller ran the Willola Hotel at this corner. Immediately to the south were the homes of W.H. Reynolds (owner of the Orlando Telephone Company from 1908 to 1911) and Brush Walker. They and the hotel were demolished to make room for this building. This home of the Orlando Utilities Commission was designed by Richard Boone Rogers, and was built in 1966-67 for $3,500,000 by Graham Contracting, Inc.
A church was built here in 1942 while Carolyn Hightower Parsons was the pastor. It was torn down in 1999.
In 1961, American Federal Savings & Loan Association bought 60,000 square feet of land here for $440,000. The following year, it announced plans for a round building, which opened on May 6, 1963, with one story. The rest were added later.
This Bungaloid with Prairie School influences was built in 1919 by F.A. Peppercorn for Caroline B. Hackney. It later was used as architects' offices.
A home built there in 1890-94 in the Queen Anne style for S.G. Walker showed a Gothic influence. Across the street on the east side was the 1884 home of C.K. Needham. This portion of the street, extending from Lake Lucerne north to Livingston St., was known as Main St. until the 1960s.
In the 1890s, Mrs. W.G. Johnson taught a private school and kindergarten here. The current building was the state's first senior citizen highrise residence. It was constructed to provide low-cost housing for the elderly. The project was dedicated on May 25, 1966, and rent for some of the apartments was $75 per month.
The bell on display in front comes from the first fire house in Orlando, located on Oak (Wall) St. There are memorials to the city's firemen who have been killed in the line of duty. The Delaney home on the property was razed in 1959 to make room for the fire station, which then moved here from 19 N. Main St. where the library is now.
The First Methodist Church organized in 1874. In 1881, the congregation bought a lot here, and on it built a $1,000 sanctuary. A new yellow brick sanctuary was built across Magnolia Ave. in 1913, and was demolished in 1972 to make room for a parking lot and playground. Wesley Hall was constructed in 1921, the children's building in 1956. In 1890, Jim Nelson had built a home, later occupied by the S.H. Kilgore family, and then it became Asbury Hall of the Methodist Church. It was torn down in August on 1948, and in 1949 the present Asbury Hall was opened. It was designed by L. Alex Hatton and built by W.A. McCree Jr. On a portion of the lot, at the corner of Magnolia Ave. and Jackson St., was a large white house built in 1913 by Eugene Duckworth and bought by N.P. Yowell, who kept it until October of 1925. It was torn down in September of 1950. In 1953, the church bought Raab's Garage, service station and three apartments to make room for a new Sunday school building. The present $1,000,000 sanctuary was dedicated on November 17, 1963.
H.C. Sanderson obtained a 99-year lease on this property and constructed a two-story hotel building here including four stores in 1924. In 1930, the property was leased as the new home of the Young Women's Community Club.
The previous $1,600,000 city hall was opened in 1958 slightly to the east of the present one. It can still be seen at the beginning of the movie "Lethal Weapon 3," as it was filmed as it was imploded and leveled on October 24, 1991. The present city hall was designed by Heller & Leake of San Francisco and built by Brasfield & Gorrie, Inc. of Birmingham, Alabama, for a cost of $32 million. The nine-story building has 265,000 square feet of space.
In 1883, the Methodist Episcopal Church built and opened the South Florida Institute here, with Rev. C.A. Saunders as the principal. The name later changed to Wesleyan Seminary, then to Wesleyan Institute. In 1886, the city acquired the property to pay a debt and used it as an elementary and high school. Its first commencement was held on April 12, 1892, in the Opera House. The Wesleyan Institute moved to Leesburg in 1886 and was renamed the Florida Conference College, then to Sutherland (now called Palm Harbor) in 1902 and renemed Florida Seminary, and again in 1921 to Lakeland where it is now known as Florida Southern College. The school building here burned in 1905, and was replaced the following year by a cream-colored brick school that cost $23,000. It was the first brick school building in Orange County. The undamaged portion of the wooden school was moved south and added to the Willola Hotel. The city took over the 1906 school for a city hall and police department in 1924, moving from offices in the Armory. The old high school was torn down in 1972 and replaced by a park. It was dedicated on September 17, 1973, in honor of former mayor William "Billy" Beardall. The park was sold to a private owner in 1985.
On this site was the home of Orville L. Rogers, a lawyer who had moved here from Virginia in 1878. Dr. King Wylly had his home here, beginning in 1894. In 1920, the Polly Anna Tea Room opened here. The property was bought in 1923 by Mrs. R.W. Rowland, and the building was moved to McKee Ave. to make room for a six-story building. The I.W. Phillips Dodge Agency, an automobile dealership with a parking garage above, was erected here in 1923-24 by the L.C. Townsend Company. In July of 1926, the Miller O. Phillips Company, which had taken over the Dodge dealership, moved from here to a new location on N. Orange Ave. As Orlando Motors, Inc., it became a distributor of Oldsmobiles. Later, the building was used as offices, known as the Exchange Building. In 1928, the International Life Insurance Company moved here. The American Fire & Casualty Co. bought it in 1946 for $250,000 and changed its name to the American Building. The American Savings & Loan Association moved here in 1952. The building stood vacant for many years before it was demolished in the 1990s. It was the first area building to use concrete beams poured in place.
Dr. John William Miller, who came here in 1880, had a cow barn and chicken coops at this location during the 1880s. Emil Metzinger obtained a lease of this property in 1923 for construction of a four-story building. In 1933, this property was sold by Nancy Bencini to Supply Investment Company for $56,000. It was the site of Table Supply Company and Kay Jewelry Company. On October 1, 1961, construction began on the $1,000,000, 112-room Downtowner Motor Inn. It opened in 1962, and was sold in January of 1973 for $1,300,000. It closed in October of 1974. This intersection has been active since very early days. In 1885, Col. Cornelius Akers of Georgia built his home here. In 1915, a skating rink opened at this intersection in the Hovey Building. The Balfour Hardware Company opened its store here in 1928. In 1946, Stroud's Drug Store opened here. The Orlando Sentinel had its offices here until August of 1951, when it moved to its present site on N. Orange Ave.
The house formerly on this property was built by Mr. Whidden in 1892. It was then owned by the Kanter family, then the L.B. Hamlin family, and in 1911 was bought by the Bumby family. It was the home of Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Yothers for 19 years, and was leased in 1931 to A.S. King for a filling station. The filling station was demolished in 1953 and the property was then used as a parking lot. In 1971, the 19-story CNA Building was completed for $8,500,000. It was designed by Reynolds, Smith & Hills and later became the Firstate Tower.
This park was dedicated on July 31, 1993, in memory of banker Buell G. Duncan, Jr. Located in front of the Park Building is a sundial dedicated to William H. Dial, former director and chairman of the board of Sun Bank. Portions of the park and the adjacent SunTrust Center include the sites of a B&B Cash Grocery Store (262 S. Orange Ave.) which opened here in the 1930s, Price & Iles Insurance Agency (246) from the 1940s, the Albert Drug Store (232) which opened in the 1940s, the J.E. Carrol Hanson Six Automobile Dealership (230) of the 1920s, the Penn Shoe Store (222) of the 1930s, a Margaret-Ann Food Store (216-218) of the 1940s, and Orlando's first Piggly Wiggly Grocery Store (210), which opened here on September 10, 1921.
A home was built by Turner H. Evans in 1897 at 166 E. Pine St., and moved here in about 1958. It had been substantially altered by builder D.J. Dykes in 1914 to exhibit Colonial Revival characteristics. Evans operated the Evans Jewelry Co. from the house during the 1920s, served as a member of the Orlando Utilities Commission, and was the official timer for the clock in the tower of the old brick courthouse.
A Colonial Revival style home was built here in 1911 for W.H. Story by J.H. McDonald.
The Red Cross bought an H-plan home here in 1945 for $17,500 and used it as its headquarters.
In 1925, F.A. Carnwright built a large Bungaloid here with some Italian Villa style details for C.L. Howe.
Built in 1926 by C.C. Construction Co., the building which stood here until it was demolished in late 2002 was Orlando's oldest remaining synagogue structure. Ohev was the city's first Jewish congregation, founded in 1918. The congregation moved to another site in 1972, and thereafter the Neo-Classical style building was used by the Maranatha Baptist Church, and later by the Primera Iglesia Bautista.
James Bailey Magruder built a three-story rooming house here in 1912 and called it the Oak Lodge.
This multiple living facility opened here in January of 1970. Osceola St. was known as Emmaline St. until 1924.
A typical Bungaloid, now gone, was built here in 1909 for Robert F. Lees. Looking across the intersection to the west side of Lake Ave., you may see a large oak tree in the front yard of 16 Lake Ave. Early Orlando historian Eldon H. Gore believed that beneath the tree is the unmarked grave of Orlando Reeves, after whom the city is named.
These three-story apartments were built in 1921-22 by Fred A. Peppercorn. They were sold in 1926 and again in 1946, for $100,000.
W. Paul Phillips, who worked for the Orlando Water and Light Co., built a home here on a lot that ran to Mariposa St. (when it extended this far westward). It is now the site of Orlando Lutheran Towers and St. Paul's Luthern Church.
Built in 1900, a Greek Revival style house at this site was the home of Jessie Allen. It was replaced by the present Orange County Administration Center, built in 1984-85 for $12 million.
The first Baptist church in downtown Orlando had its former sanctuary a little to the west of this spot, on the site of the old Union Church. The Baptists built a three-story Sunday school building adjoining the sanctuary to its east for $18,000 in 1922. While building another educational building on January 27, 1950, workmen came across a casket missed over 50 years earlier when the former cemetery was removed to Greenwood Cemetery, and that last casket was then relocated to Greenwood. Another educational building costing $250,000 opened on April 21, 1957. The $1,000,000 sanctuary at this corner was begun in September of 1959 and dedicated on May 14, 1961. In 1981, the congregation voted to purchase 150 acres near the intersection of Interstate 4 and 33rd St. That sanctuary opened in 1985 and shortly thereafter the First Baptist congregation moved that location, and the Downtown Baptist Church acquired this building.
This congregation organized on March 18, 1876, under the supervision of Rev. W.B. Telford in the home of Benjamin Guild. It had 14 charter members, and met in the courthouse and in the Union Free Church. Its first pastor was Rev. Henry Keigwin. The first sanctuary was built in 1884 on W. Central Blvd. After it burned in February of 1887, they met again in the courthouse, and then in the Opera House. A new frame building was erected on this block in January of 1889. The next church building opened on December 27, 1914. It was torn down in the mid-1960s to make room for the office and classroom building at the corner of Magnolia Ave. and Church St. In 1926, a three-story Bible school and educational building was erected at the southeast corner of Church St. and Palmetto Ave. Palmetto Ave., located where the covered courtyard now lies between the sanctuary and the educational building, was vacated in November of 1916. The present main sanctuary was begun on April 18, 1954, and hosted its first service on March 1, 1955. Its cost, with the 142-foot steeple, was $525,000. The small Reformation Chapel facing Magnolia Ave. was dedicated on March 10, 1963, with a Georgian Colonial design. Newton P. Yowell for 40 years taught the Young Men's Class here, known as Yowell's Presbyters. Yowell Hall, the educational building at the southeast corner of Magnolia Ave. and Church St., is named after him. The 1966 educational building, Allen Hall, is named after Linton Allen.
Capt. James Walle Wilmott of England moved to Orlando in 1883. In 1895, he completed the Tremont Hotel at this location with half of the former Lucky Hotel, bought from James L. Giles. He also bought the 1879 courthouse in 1893 and added it to the south section, and the old Charleston House to the north section. The hotel was torn down in 1956 to make room for a parking lot. That year, the land was bought by First Federal Savings and Loan Association. In 1962, it opened a parking deck fronting on Church St., and shortly thereafter built this five-story office building, opening it in March of 1964. This was also the site of the first log schoolhouse.
This site, later occupied by First Baptist Church's Christian Life Center, formerly was the first official Orlando graveyard, and the Union Free Church stood where the parking garage is now located. John Patrick deeded one acre to a committee for the church's construction on November 23, 1857. The church, built in 1872, was located 100 feet east of Magnolia Ave. and 150 feet south of Pine St., in the center of the block. Weekly services inititally rotated among the Baptists, Methodists and the Episcopalians. Later, the Presbyterians also used it. It doubled as Orange County Public School Number One, whose first teacher was mayor Cassius Boone, a great grandson of pioneer Daniel Boone. The church building was condemned in 1891. Two years later, the Baptists bought the lot and completed a $6,000 sanctuary in September of 1887. A new sanctuary opened on May 30, 1915, designed by J.E. Greene with a Palladian Greek Revival style. The graves were moved to Greenwood Cemetery. In September of 1974, the church began a $3,000,000 educational building on the site of the old sanctuary on the southeast corner of Magnolia Ave. and Pine St. The six-story Christian Life Center was dedicated in 1977.
This building was begun in 1886-87 to be a clubhouse for English settlers. The south and west sides still have the original pressed tin sheet metal panels imported from England. Gordon Rogers came from England in 1883 and tried growing citrus in Marion County. He moved to Orlando in 1886 and opened a liquor store in this building. It was also occupied by Rogers, Martyn and Company, a wholesale and retail grocery company. Upstairs was the club, called the English Club and the Cosmopolitan Club. It was a center for dances, theatricals, cards and other social activities. In 1891, the Orange County Reporter newspaper moved to the eastern end of this building. From time to time, the building has also housed a druggist, the South Florida Sentinel newspaper, and the Orange County Abstract Company. In 1926, the building was sold to Arthur M. Higgins for $80,000. Higgins reinforced it with steel beams. In the 1970s, the building housed the I & J Restaurant, and later became the home of an art gallery.
This three-story building of Edward Kuhl and James Delaney predates the major 1884 fire and served as the post office in the 1890s. One of the early tenants of this building was Harry Alexander Newell of Baltimore, who taught music on the third floor. He married Gertrude Sweet. Between 4 and 5 a.m. on January 12, 1884, a fire began in Delaney's nearby wooden grocery store and spread to Bassett's Millinery Store on the west, then to Dr. R.J. Gilliam's Drug Store. It destroyed the printing plant of the Reporter. Later, Dr. James Nixon Butt bought this building and moved his office into it. In 1922, while it was occupied by the Kincaid Furniture Store, it was sold to Wilbur Warren. For a while, it was the home of Johnson Electric, which sold it in 1933 for $26,000 to become the Mather Furniture Store. The name was changed to the Phoenix Building after extensive renovation in the 1980s. Other tenants of this building have included Arnold's Grocery Store, the Knights of Pythias, several attorneys, and a drug store. (Walk south on Magnolia Ave. and west on Church St. to the Intersection with Court St., and cross to the northwest corner.)(4.2)
George W. Burden arrived in Orlando in 1882, and for a time operated the four-room Central House here. In 1887, rooms cost 50 cents per night, and all-you-can-eat meals cost 25 cents. Also, Mrs. Kollock had a boarding house here, and Dr. William Person later bought it and converted it into an office building. He had an apartment on the second floor, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Howe and their son for about 12 years. In January of 1961, Don Mott opened the Title Building at this location.
This recent all-glass tower replaces a number of earlier businesses, including the Yates Barber Shop, located across the street at 60 E. Church St., and operated by L.E. Yates. The present building was erected for Barnett Bank. Across Church St. at this point during the 1880s was the Smith Jewelry Store. A portion of this property fronting on Orange Ave. was originally the site of the two-story house of Charles Franklin McQuaig. Later, it was the Carter house and the Astor Hotel, and from 1908 the property of John Crawford Bass. He replaced it with the three-story brick Bass Hotel, erected by Walter Bass. It charged $7 per week for room and board. Conway Kittredge bought the building in 1965 and remodeled it for office space.
Behind the Central House, facing Court Ave., E.M. Holden built the Orange Hotel, which opened in February of 1920. The hotel was sold in January of 1945, and he moved his insurance business into the first floor.
In the 1920s, this was the site of the Orlando Ice Company. Prior to that, E.A. Richards had an undertaking parlor here.
In 1884, Charles Weimer paid N.C. Stubblefield to build an opera house here, facing Court Ave. The stage door opened onto Magnolia Ave. After it was refurbished in February of 1897, it was renamed "As You Like It". The opera house housed musical and theatrical productions until 1915. During that year, it was remodeled into a garage and automobile repair shop.
In the 1880s, this was the site of Geer's Photo shop. In 1950, this lot, extending through to Magnolia Ave., was bought by First Federal Savings & Loan Association for $65,000. Its office opened for business in 1952. Ten years later, it moved to its new headquarters at the corner of Magnolia Ave. and Church St. Next door at 115 S. Court Ave. was the Lucerne Theater.
In the 1880s, a restaurant was operated here by Dora, Minni, Ernest and Don Holden. Next door in the 1920s, the Auto Electric Co. sold car batteries and Moore & Ethridge offered used cars.
In 1933, the Association relocated to this Mediterranean style building, which was built in 1925. In 1926, Mrs. N.T. Ray had bought the building for $17,000 and moved in her beauty school and shop. At various times, this building has housed several loan and finance companies and a pornographic theater. Pine and the other streets of downtown were designed in 1881 and made of sand. This one was widened by 10 feet in 1883, and was paved with clay in 1891 so that local firemen could hold a race. The original buildings on this street were destroyed by the 1884 fire. That motivated the city to adopt its first building standards code, requiring masonry or brick buildings. Until the 1920s, this was the main thoroughfare of Orlando.
James Duke of Kentucky arrived in 1879 and opened a grocery store here. In 1905, John Cook moved his blacksmith and buggy shop here from W. Church St. He incorporated the Cook Automobile Company and sold Buicks and Cadillacs. In 1923, this 20th Century Commercial style building was erected as an investment for Mrs. William E. Smith, the widow of the Orlando fire chief. First Federal Savings & Loan Association moved into it in August of 1940, after a $57,000 remodeling program. It later became the home of a restaurant.
Charles E. Lartigue of South Carolina came to Orlando in 1884 and built a two-story red brick building at this corner, facing onto Court St. From 1887 to 1891, it housed The Daily Record newspaper. After a two-year layoff, the Tri-Weekly Star newspaper began publishing again in 1900, moving here from W. Pine St. Later, it was the home of the Reporter-Star, until it moved in 1925. The building was then purchased by Dr. Wattenscheidt of Baltimore. It also had an entrance at 23-29 S. Court St. The original brick building was covered with stucco and became a restaurant. Just to the east, at 61-65 E. Pine St., is the Robinson Building built by chemist Norman Robinson in 1884. The two-story veneered concrete structure was claimed to be the first "fireproof" building in Orlando. Robinson had come to Orlando from New York in 1870. Later, it was the site of the Overstreet Land Company and the Newell Electric Company.
Frank A. Curtis organized the Orlando YMCA, which occupied a portion of the top floor of this building. It was erected in 1888 by Curtis, Ingram Fletcher and W.R. O'Neal, using cast iron sills produced locally at the South Florida Foundry. The building also housed the ACL ticket office and the O'Neal-Branch bookstore.
This was built in 1884 as the largest brick structure on the south side of Pine St. Shortly after it was built, it became the office of Ormsby, Knox and Grady, an insurance firm. E.F. Marrero became an agent here for the Brisco automobile in 1918. In 1920, R.L. White sold Templar automobiles here and at the same time the Buchanan Brothers sold Paige cars. Beginning in 1920, A.A. Patch had a tire and vulcanizing business. The Orlando Funeral Parlor was located here in 1920. In 1926, the Duval Jewelry Company opened here. 30 E. Pine St. was the Greyhound Bus Depot in 1940.
In the 1880s, Milo Cooper, a black barber, had a barber shop here that served only white customers. It was located between A.M. Hyer's livery stable and the Charleston House, later the site of the Central Church of the Nazarene.
In 1870, A.M. Hyer bought a livery stable here and opened a drug store. In 1878, the livery stable was acquired by James J. Patrick, who had come here from South Carolina in 1852. James Bailey Magruder came here from Georgia in 1900, and in 1911 built an arcade from Pine to Church Sts., and east to Court St. It housed the Arcade Restaurant, a bookstore, a laundry and, upstairs, the Arcade Hotel. The post office moved into the east store room here in 1914 and remained until 1917. The same year, the Orlando Morning Sentinel began publication here. It later moved to the Fraternal Building. Fred M. Bass leased and remodeled the first floor into stores for $650,000 in 1925. One of the tenants in the 1930s was a beauty salon known as the Ladies' Bobber Shop.
Murry S. King opened a cabinet shop here in 1907. He is better known for designing many of Orlando's tallest buildings.
This building was erected in 1925, utilizing a Spanish style. It replaced H.M. Self's Meat Market.
Andrew Hansen of Pittsburgh arrived here in 1890. Four years later, he opened the Hansen Shoe Repair Shop in this building, which had been erected in 1884. It remained in the family until 1965, and was soon closed. Orlando's first electric sign was hung here.
This was built between 1887 and 1892, and has not changed much in appearance since then. In 1914, it became the home of the Orlando Telephone Company exchange.
This was built in 1886 by James L. and N.B. Giles as rental space. It was rented by Henry C. Harrison and W.L. Peeler, attorneys. Later, it was the home of the telephone company. In 1910, McIntosh & Goodwyn had an office here and advertised themselves here as "sanitary plumbers". In the 1940s, Ruth Covington operated a greeting card business here.
C.W. Arnold, L.O. Garrett and Capt. Tom Shine built a three-story 50' x 100' brick armory extending through to Magnolia Ave. The town leased the first floor for a city market, and the second floor housed professional offices. On the third floor was the auditorium. The armory was the home of the Orlando Guards, renamed the Shine Guards. The Sorosis Club was founded in 1893, and had its club rooms in this building. Also included was the first circulating library, run under the auspices of Sorosis. The library later moved to the Knox Building, and then to the Overstreet Garage, before establishment of the Albertson Public Library. The armory was bought by Moses O. Overstreet, then by A.E. Slausen, who razed it in 1932 and used the bricks for home construction. The present building was erected in about 1948.
The Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association was founded in 1943, and had its headquarters here until 1951.
This three-story building was built by Dr. C.D. Christ between 1903 and 1910. In 1910, he opened one of the first private sanitariums and hospitals in it. A surgeon, he was one of the founders of Orange Memorial Hospital, now known as Orlando Regional Medical Center. In the 1920s, the Walter W. Rose Investment Co. had an office in the building. In 1940, McNutt-Heasley and Bailey sold insurance here. The Orlando Federal Savings & Loan Association was located at 17 E. Central Blvd. until it moved to a new headquarters in 1955.
In 1919, the Datson Brothers opened a "Dairy Lunch" at this site. Don Mott bought the property in 1947 and built the Don Mott Insurance Agency Building, later removed to make room for a parking lot.
This shopping and restaurant complex was built in 1925, and has been remodeled a number of times since then.
In 1866, John Worthington built a frame hotel here. He sold "Worthington's Hotel" to W.A.G. Roberts, who sold it to William Patrick, who sold it to W.L. Lovell, who renamed it "Lovell's Hotel". The Orange County Reporter newspaper was located in a one-story building here until it burned in 1884. Mahlon Gore then relocated it to Orange Ave.
Dr. J.S. McEwan practiced medicine with Dr. Harris. In 1911, he bought this lot and built a two-story hospital, and later added a third floor to expand it to 20 rooms. O.P. Swope bought the building in 1925 for $65,000. In 1925, it was sold to the Florida Public Service Corporation for $75,000, then housed the Florida Gas Company, offices and a convenience store.
On October 8, 1857, B.F. Caldwell donated four acres of land for the construction of Orlando's second courthouse, a two-story log structure. It was built here in 1863, facing east. It burned in 1868, likely as a result of arson during a conflict over a heavy tax on cattle. Nathaniel Poyntz came to Orlando in 1870, and in 1883 he opened the Bank of Orlando here, the only bank in South Florida outside of Key West. It adjoined the Summerlin House hotel. In 1884, it reorganized as the First National Bank. In 1920, croquet courts for tourists were constructed here. Later, this corner was the site of the Corner Canteen, a small snack stand operated by Wayne Moses. To the north, between it and the fire station, was a Shell service station. To the east at 113 E. Central Blvd. was the Chamber of Commerce, occupying a Moorish style building designed by Howard M. Reynolds and erected by Fred E. Ley, Inc. in 1926-27.
Dr. John S. McEwan had this eclectic Colonial Revival building erected for him in 1920, and by 1930 had moved his office here from the location next door. The Orlando Free Press began publication here on October 4, 1945.
Robert Ivey of North Carolina came to Orlando in 1857 and built a log cabin on the site of the later courthouse annex. Ivey homesteaded 640 acres south and west of Lake Eola, and was awarded 40 additional acres north of Grant Ave. for his war service. He settled in the "Ivey House" on the west end of Lake Mann. That house burned in 1967. A three-story frame courthouse, Orlando's fourth, was built here in 1875 by A.M. Hyer for $7,800. Jacob Summerlin had offered to loan the county $10,000 for its construction to prevent the county seat from being moved to Sanford. On July 31, 1875, the City of Orlando was incorporated with boundaries forming a square two miles on a side, with the courthouse at the center. William J. Brack was elected the first mayor. A well was located in the southwest corner of the courthouse yard, near the northeast corner of the intersection of Central Blvd. and Court Ave. The well was 42 feet deep, lined with terra cotta, and had a shingle roof over it. It was filled in with dirt when Orlando put in its first water system. In 1890, the courthouse was sold to Judge J.L. Bryant, who sold it to Capt. J.W. Wilmott. He moved it to the northeast corner of Church St. and Magnolia Ave. to be part of his Tremont Hotel. The 1892 brick courthouse, Orlando's fifth, was built here by W.C. Green & Company for $57,000, with an 80-foot clock tower close to the intersection with Magnolia Ave. In the tower was a 1500-pound bell. It was demolished in January of 1958, and the annex was completed on the site in March of 1960. The tower portion a little further north of Central Blvd. was finished in 1971. Both portions were torn down in 1999, years after they were abandoned because of the presence of asbestos.
Edward Speir came to Orlando in 1860 and homesteaded 160 acres on the north side of Lake Eola. He built a frame house near the lake and a store near here, facing Magnolia Ave. He later opened a drug store in that building. In 1919, the city bought the lot from the Boardmans, across from the courthouse and adjacent to the Christ lot at the northeast corner of Central Blvd. which the city had bought in 1918. A fire station was constructed and operated from here until the 1950s, when it was moved to S. Magnolia Ave. The city traded this lot for another at the corner of Orange Ave. and South St. for construction of a new city hall.
L.P. Wescott, who had lived at the site of the 1927 courthouse, had an interest in rare plants and trees, and erected a greenhouse here. Southern Bell bought the Orlando Telephone Company on April 1, 1916. This building, erected in 1925-26 with three stories, was designed by Mayre, Alber & Alger, and built by Barge Thompson Company. It features rectangular panels of polychrome low relief glazed terracotta. In 1947, three more stories were added.
Algernon Hayden (later, Haden) from England owned the Orlando Telephone Company from 1896 to 1903. He named his home here the Nightingale Lodge. Just to the north of the present parking lot is a building in which Goodbody & Company, a stock brokerage company, opened in 1956. Next door, the two-story building at 135 N. Magnolia Ave., was the location of Fulford Van & Storage Company. The building was bought in 1973 by a group of attorneys.
Leo P. Wescott came from Detroit in 1875 and built a large two-story Colonial style house here. It was the first plastered home south of Palatka. He surrounded it with rare plants and trees from all over the world. Leslie Pell-Clarke came to Orlando in the 1880s and purchased the home, and gave it to the Episcopal Church in 1900. It became the home of Bishop William Crane Gray of the Episcopal Diocese of South Florida. It had a wrought iron fence that had come from Mills Park, which included the bandshell and zoo at Lake Eola. Orange County purchased the property in 1924, and the home was moved to 341 N. Interlachen Ave., Winter Park, to be the office for the Diocese. This Neoclassical Revival style courthouse was dedicated on October 12, 1927. It was begun by Murry S. King, and finished after his death by his son, James R. King. The construction cost was nearly $1,000,000. In 1999-2000, it was remodeled to be the Orange County Regional History Center.
Dr. H.M. Grannis of Macon, Georgia, Orlando's first dentist, arrived in this city in 1878 and opened an office here. It was later sold to Z.W. Evans for use as a photography studio, and it was later torn down. Later, it was replaced by Taylor's Filling Station facing Magnolia Ave., which has also been torn down. Grannis built a home facing Washington St., which later became the Eola Inn, and even later was used by Eugene Duckworth as an office.
This church organized in 1869 and built a small sanctuary here in 1882 on land purchased from R.R. Reid for $300. It was enlarged in 1884 and 1902, and the name was changed from St. Luke's Parish to St. Luke's Cathedral. The present church building was designed by P.H. Frohman, who also designed the National Episcopal Cathedral at Mount St. Alban in Washington, DC. It was built for $130,000 in 1922-26 on the south end of the property by A.B. Struble with a blending of Spanish Medieval and English Vertical Gothic styles. The concrete artstone simulates carved limestone. The building was expanded in 1987, based on the 1925 drawings of Frohman, Robb and Little.
The Magnolia Ave. Catholic school and convent building was sold in 1939 to the federal government for $65,000 for a new post office site. The church also gave additional land for a Court St. extension so the post office could have streets on all four sides. This post office and federal courthouse, designed by Louis A. Simon, opened here on April 14, 1941. It exhibits a Northern Italian Palazzo Revival style.
This was the site of the home of Charles E. Johnson, one of the founders of the South Florida Foundry. The house was torn down in 1949. Across the street was the site of the home of William C. Smith, who arrived from England in 1883, and was another of the three founders of the South Florida Foundry. It was the first architect-desgined house in Orlando, and had the first grass tennis court in Florida.
Charles Henry Spellman, after living in a home on Washington St., later bought the L.H. Geer home at this location. The Geers had moved to Orlando in the 1870s and built the home in 1882. Mrs. Geer died in 1900, their daughter Lillie was shot to death in 1901, and Mr. Geer died in 1903. There is a large Geer family memorial in Greenwood Cemetery.
The Congregational Church bought this lot in 1887 and completed a sanctuary here in 1888. In 1902, they merged with the First Presbyterian Church and moved the sanctuary to about where the Reformation Chapel is today on the east side of Magnolia Ave., south of Church St.
In 1884, M.L. Knight of Keene, New Hampshire, bought half of the block containing this lot. He set out an orange grove and built a two-story home. Hannah Paul of Moorestown, New Jersey, bought it in 1900 and remodeled it into a 30-room hotel. It was named the Eola Cottage, and was open during the winter. The school board bought it in 1922 for $22,000 as a site for the new Magnolia Grammar School. Later, it was remodeled as the Vocational School.
This building opened on January 12, 1947. From 1945 to 1954, the YMCA was located across the street at 311 N. Magnolia Ave.
The two-story frame house located here was removed in August of 1955 to create an "S-curve" to merge Main St. into Magnolia Ave. In the 1990s, Magnolia Ave. was modified more than once to improve the flow of northbound trafic through the city. The property next door was purchased by Orlando Federal Savings & Loan Association, which opened for business on March 1, 1955.
This home was erected in 1884 as the residence of Sam A. Robinson. The only running water was a hose in the ground floor bathroom that ran to a faucet on the back porch. The home was damaged by a major fire in 1890, and was repaired. In 1925, it was owned by Capt. T.C. Brannon, who then granted a 99-year lease on it to Leverett R. Harrison of New York. In 1948, Mr. and Mrs. Luther F. Dameron of Ohio bought it for $32,500 and turned it into a 12-room tourist hotel named "Magnolia Manor". It was converted to an office building in 1954.
Nathaniel Poyntz came to Orlando in 1870 and built a large residence here. It was sold in 1900 to A.H. Darrow of Chicago, who remodeled it into the 15-room Darrow House hotel. In 1904, A.P. Miller bought it and changed the name to the Wyoming Hotel, adding portions in 1907 and 1909. He sold it to his son, DeWitt Miller, in 1911. He added on in 1916, doubled its size, and added 20 rooms to bring the total to 120 in 1923. The hotel was razed in September of 1959.
Flashbacks: The Story of Central Florida's Past, by Jim Robison and Mark Andrews (The Orlando Sentinel 1995)
Florida: A Pictorial History, by Hampton Dunn (The Donning Company 1988)
Historical, Architectural and Archaeological Survey of Orlando, Florida, (Bureau of Historic Sites and Properties 1983)
History of Orange County, Florida, by William Fremont Blackman (The Mickler House 1973)
History of Orlando, by E.H. Gore (1951) Orlando: A Centennial History, by Eve Bacon (The Mickler House 1975)
Orlando History in Architecture, (Orlando Historic Preservation Board 1984)
Orlando: The City Beautiful, by Jerrell H. Shofner (Continental Heritage Press 1984)(Cross to the east side of the railroad tracks and look south across the street.)(1.6)
South side of Pine St., between Orange Ave. and the railroad tracks (60 W. Pine St.)
67....Site of Holland Wagon Works
(Continue east 225 feet on Pine St.)(1.7)
North side of Pine St., between Orange Ave. and the railroad tracks (35 W. Pine St.)
68....Site of Trade Wind Cafeteria
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South side of Pine St., between Orange Ave. and the railroad tracks (36 W. Pine St.)
69....Carey Hand Funeral Home
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North side of Pine St., between Orange Ave. and the railroad tracks (31 W. Pine St.)
70....Site of Grand Hotel
(Continue east 15 feet and look south across the street.)(1.7)
South side of Pine St., between Orange Ave. and the railroad tracks (28 W. Pine St.)
71....Site of Smith Cigar Factory
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North side of Pine St., between Orange Ave. and the railroad tracks (13-25 W. Pine St.)
72....Elijah Hand Building
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North side of Pine St., between Orange Ave. and the railroad tracks (23 W. Pine St.)
73....Site of Nashville Block
(Continue east 15 feet and look south across the street.)(1.7)
South side of Pine St., between Orange Ave. and the railroad tracks (22 W. Pine St.)
74....Site of Salvation Army Headquarters
(Continue east 40 feet and look south across the street.)(1.7)
South side of Pine St., between Orange Ave. and the railroad tracks (16-18 W. Pine St.)
75....Tinker Building
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North side of Pine St., between Orange Ave. and the railroad tracks (11 W. Pine St.)
76....Site of Chimney Tea Room
(Look south across the street.)(1.7)
South side of Pine St., between Orange Ave. and the railroad tracks (10 W. Pine St.)
77....Site of Liberty Kitchen
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South side of Pine St., between Orange Ave. and the railroad tracks
78....Site of Rock Bakery
(Continue east 10 feet on Pine St.)(1.7)
Northwest corner of Orange Ave. and Pine St. (3 W. Pine St.)
79....O'Connell Building
(Continue east on Pine St. to the intersection with Orange Ave.)(1.7)
Northwest corner of Orange Ave. and Pine St. (32-38 S. Orange Ave.)
80....Site of Queeny Building
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Northeast corner of Orange Ave. and Pine St. (23-19 S. Orange Ave.)
81....Phillips Theatre
(Look across Orange Ave. to the next building to the north.)(1.7)
East side of Orange Ave., between Pine St. and Central Blvd. (21 S. Orange Ave.)
82....Evans-Rex Drug Store
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Southeast corner of Orange Ave. and Pine St. (101 S. Orange Ave.)
83....Site of McCrory Building
(Look across Orange Ave. to the southernmost entrance to the McCrory Building.)(1.7)
East side of Orange Ave., between Pine and Church Sts. (119 S. Orange Ave.)
84....Site of Palmer Store
(Look across Orange Ave. to the next building to the south.)(1.7)
East side of Orange Ave., between Pine and Church Sts. (123 S. Orange Ave.)
85....Phillips Building
(Cross to the southwest corner.)(1.7)
Southwest corner of Orange Ave. and Pine St. (100-102 S. Orange Ave.)
86....Metcalf Building
(Walk south 85 feet on Orange Ave.)(1.8)
West side of Orange Ave., between Church and Pine Sts. (112 S. Orange Ave.)
87....Site of Wilson Shoe Store
(Continue south 20 feet.)(1.8)
West side of Orange Ave., between Church and Pine Sts. (114 S. Orange Ave.)
88....Site of Miller's Dress Shop
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West side of Orange Ave., between Church and Pine Sts. (116 S. Orange Ave.)
89....Site of Clothing Store
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West side of Orange Ave., between Church and Pine Sts. (118-120 S. Orange Ave.)
90....Boardman and Davis Buildings
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West side of Orange Ave., between Church and Pine Sts. (126 S. Orange Ave.)
91....Site of First Bond & Mortgage Company
(Continue south 20 feet.)(1.8)
West side of Orange Ave., between Church and Pine Sts. (130 S. Orange Ave.)
92....Kress Building
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West side of Orange Ave., between Church and Pine Sts. (132 S. Orange Ave.)
93....Site of Osteopathic Offices
(Continue south on Orange Ave. to the intersection with Church St.)(1.8)
Northwest corner of Orange Ave. and Church St. (140-144 S. Orange Ave.)
94....National Building
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Northeast corner of Orange Ave. and Church St. (135-141 S. Orange Ave.)
95....Site of C.A. Boone & Co.
(Look east across Orange Ave. to the next building to the north.)(1.8)
East side of Orange Ave., between Pine and Church Sts. (125 S. Orange Ave.)
96....Site of The Blue Drug Store
(Look across to the southeast corner.)(1.8)
Southeast corner of Orange Ave. and Church St.
97....Site of Wilmott Building
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Southwest corner of Orange Ave. and Church St. (200 S. Orange Ave.)
98....Sun Bank
(Walk west 50 feet on Church St.)(1.8)
South side of Church St., between the railroad tracks and Orange Ave.
99....Site of Mathews Saloons
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North side of Church St., between the railroad tracks and Orange Ave. (7 W. Church St.)
100....Site of Hand Building
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South side of Church St., between the railroad tracks and Orange Ave.
101....Site of Orland Hotel
(Continue west 15 feet and look north across the street.)(1.8)
North side of Church St., between the railroad tracks and Orange Ave. (15-17 W. Church St.)
102....Kress Building
(Continue west 25 feet and look north across the street.)(1.8)
North side of Church St., between the railroad tracks and Orange Ave. (21 W. Church St.)
103....Site of Federal Clothing Store
(Continue west 20 feet and look north across the street.)(1.8)
North side of Church St., between the railroad tracks and Orange Ave. (23-25 W. Church St.)
104....Hunt-Branson Building
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South side of Church St., between the railroad tracks and Orange Ave. (26 W. Church St.)
105....Site of Hoffman Office
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South side of Church St., between the railroad tracks and Orange Ave. (30 W. Church St.)
106....Site of Curry Electric Company
(Continue west 15 feet and look north across the street.)(1.9)
North side of Church St., between the railroad tracks and Orange Ave. (27-35 W. Church St.)
107....Nicholson-Colyer Building
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South side of Church St., between the railroad tracks and Orange Ave. (36 W. Church St.)
108....Site of Routh & Caldwell
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South side of Church St., between the railroad tracks and Orange Ave. (38 W. Church St.)
109....Site of Irvine Grocery Store
(Continue west 10 feet and look north across the street.)(1.9)
North side of Church St., between the railroad tracks and Orange Ave. (37-43 W. Church St.)
110....Charles Morgan Building
(Continue west 25 feet and look north across the street.)(1.9)
North side of Church St., between the railroad tracks and Orange Ave. (45 W. Church St.)
111....Site of Rialto Theatre
(Continue west 115 feet.)(1.9)
South side of Church St., between the railroad tracks and Orange Ave. (54 W. Church St.)
112....Site of Butt Block
(Continue west on Church St. to the intersection with the railroad tracks.)(1.9)
Southeast corner of Church St. and the railroad tracks (76-78 W. Church St.)
113....Third Train Station
(Look across the street to the north.)(1.9)
North side of Church St., between the railroad tracks and Orange Ave. (55 W. Church St.)
114....Church Street Market
(Look to the north along the east side of the railroad tracks, beyond the present corner building.)(1.9)
East side of the railroad tracks, between Church and Pine Sts.
115....Site of Orlando Grain and Commission Company
(Look to the north along the west side of the railroad tracks.)(1.9)
Gertrude Ave., including the railroad tracks
116....Gertrude's Walk
(Cross the railroad tracks to the west.)(1.9)
Southwest corner of Church St. and the railroad tracks (100-102 W. Church St.)
117....Bumby Hardware
(Look north across the street.)(1.9)
North side of Church St., between Garland Ave. and the railroad tracks
118....Teele Building
(Continue west 40 feet on Church St.)(1.9)
South side of Church St., between Garland Ave. and the railroad tracks
119....Site of Christopher House
(Continue west 25 feet and look north across the street.)(2.0)
North side of Church St., between Garland Ave. and the railroad tracks
120....Strand Hotel
(Continue west 25 feet.)(2.0)
South side of Church St., between Garland Ave. and the railroad tracks
121....Bumby Arcade and Annex
(Continue west 25 feet and look north across the street.)(2.0)
North side of Church St., between Garland Ave. and the railroad tracks
122....Leon Building
(Continue west on Church St. to the intersection with Garland Ave.)(2.0)
Southeast corner of Church St. and Garland Ave.
123....Site of Purcell Building
(Look north across the street.)(2.0)
Northeast corner of Church St. and Garland Ave. (135 W. Church St.)
124....Orlando Hotel
(Walk south on Garland Ave. and east on South St. to the intersection with Boone Ave.)(2.2)
Intersection of South St. and Boone Ave.
125....Site of Miller House
(Cross to the southeast corner, walk south 400 feet on Boone Ave. and look across the street to the west.)(2.3)
West side of Boone Ave., between South and Anderson Sts. (466 Boone Ave.)
126....Site of Nutt House
(Continue south on Boone Ave., then walk east 50 feet on Anderson St. and look south across the street.)(2.3)
South side of Anderson St., across from Boone Ave.
127....Site of Boone House
(Continue east on Anderson St. to the intersection with Orange Ave.)(2.4)
Northwest corner of Orange Ave. and Anderson St.
128....Site of Leedy Park
(Look across to the southwest corner.)(2.4)
Southwest corner of Orange Ave. and Anderson St. (500 S. Orange Ave.)
129....OUC Building
(Look across to the southeast corner.)(2.4)
Southeast corner of Orange Ave. and Anderson St. (503 S. Orange Ave.)
130....Site of Unity Church of Jesus Christ
(Cross Orange Ave. to the northeast corner.)(2.4)
Northeast corner of Orange Ave. and Anderson St. (455 S. Orange Ave.)
131....American Federal
(Continue east on Anderson St. to the intersection with Magnolia Ave. and look south across the street.)(2.4)
Southwest corner of Magnolia Ave. and Anderson St. (500 S. Magnolia Ave.)
132....Hackney House
(Look south on Magnolia Ave.)(2.5)
West side of Magnolia Ave., between Anderson St. and Lake Lucerne (512 S. Magnolia Ave.)
133....Site of Walker House
(Look across to the southeast corner.)(2.5)
Southeast corner of Anderson St. and Magnolia Ave. (100 E. Anderson St.)
134....Magnolia Towers
(Cross to the northeast corner and walk north 250 feet on Magnolia Ave.)(2.5)
East side of Magnolia Ave., between Anderson and South Sts. (439 S. Magnolia Ave.)
135....Fire Station No. 1
(Continue north on Magnolia Ave. to the intersection with South St. and cross to the northeast corner.)(2.6)
Northeast corner of Magnolia Ave. and South St. (142 E. Jackson St.)
136....First Methodist Church
(Walk west on South St. to the intersection with Orange Ave.)(2.7)
Southeast corner of Orange Ave. and South St.
137....Site of Satsuma Hotel
(Look across to the southwest corner.)(2.7)
Southwest corner of South St. and Orange Ave. (400 S. Orange Ave.)
138....City Hall
(Look across to the northwest corner.)(2.7)
Northwest corner of Orange Ave. and South St.
139....Site of South Florida Institute
(Walk north on Orange Ave. to the intersection with Jackson St.)(2.7)
Southeast corner of Orange Ave. and Jackson St. (301 S. Orange Ave.)
140....Site of American Fire & Casualty Building
(Look northwest across Orange Ave.)(2.7)
Northwest corner of Orange Ave. and Jackson St. (264 S. Orange Ave.)
141....Suntrust Center
(Look across the street to the north.)(2.7)
Northeast corner of Orange Ave. and Jackson St. (255 S. Orange Ave.)
142....Citrus Center/Firstate Tower
(Look across the street to the northwest.)(2.7)
West side of Orange Ave., between Jackson and Church Sts.
143....Duncan Park
(Walk east on Jackson St. 175 feet past Rosalind Ave.)(2.9)
South side of Jackson St., between Rosalind and Liberty Aves. (216 E. Jackson St.)
144....Site of Evans House
(Continue east on Jackson St. to the intersection with Liberty Ave.)(3.0)
Southwest corner of Jackson St. and Liberty Ave.
145....Site of Story House
(Cross to the northwest corner.)(3.0)
Northwest corner of Jackson St. and Liberty Ave. (231 E. Jackson St.)
146....Site of Red Cross Headquarters
(Walk east on Jackson St. and north on Osceola Ave. to the intersection with Mariposa St.)(3.2)
Southwest corner of Mariposa St. and Osceola Ave. (220 S. Osceola Ave.)
147....Site of Howe House
(Walk east on Mariposa St. and north on Eola Dr. to the intersection with Church St.)(3.3)
Northwest corner of Church St. and Eola Dr. (529 E. Church St.)
148....Site of Ohev Shalom Synagogue
(Walk west on Church St. to the intersection with Osceola Ave.)(3.4)
Northwest corner of Church St. and Osceola Ave. (431 E. Church St.)
149....Site of Oak Lodge
(Walk north on Osceola Ave. to the intersection with Pine St.)(3.5)
Southwest corner of Pine St. and Osceola Ave. (414 E. Pine St.)
150....Baptist Terrace
(Walk west on Pine St. to the intersection with Lake Ave.)(3.6)
Southeast corner of Pine St. and Lake Ave. (101 Lake Ave.)
151....Site of Lees House
(Cross Lake Ave. and continue west 200 feet.)(3.6)
South side of Pine St., between Lake and Rosalind Aves. (316 E. Pine St.)
152....Bingham House
This Colonial Revival style house was built in 1910-11 for Ethel M. Bingham. The Florida Surgical Company opened its office here in 1925.(Walk east on Pine St., south on Lake Ave., and west 200 feet on Church St.)(3.7)
North side of Church St., between Liberty and Lake Aves. (319 E. Church St.)
153....St. Regis Apartments
(Continue west 50 feet on Church St. and look across the street to the south.)(3.7)
South side of Church St., between Liberty and Lake Aves. (316 E. Church St.)
154....Site of Phillips House
(Continue west on Church St. 300 feet past the intersection with Liberty Ave. and look across the street to the south.)(3.9)
South side of Church St., between Rosalind and Liberty Aves. (206 E. Church St.)
155....Site of Allen House
(Continue west on Church St. to the intersection with Rosalind Ave. and cross to the northwest corner.)(3.9)
West side of Rosalind Ave., from Pine to Church Sts. (120 E. Pine St.)
156....Downtown Baptist Church
(Continue west 150 on Church St. and look south across the street.)(3.9)
Block bounded by Church and Jackson Sts. and Rosalind and Magnolia Aves. (106 E. Church St.)
157....First Presbyterian Church
(Continue west on Church St. to the intersection with Magnolia Ave.)(4.0)
Northeast corner of Church St. and Magnolia Ave. (145 S. Magnolia Ave.)
158....Site of Tremont Hotel
(Walk north on Magnolia Ave. to the intersection with Pine St.)(4.0)
Southeast corner of Magnolia Ave. and Pine St. (100 E. Pine St.)
159....Site of Union Free Church
(Cross to the northeast corner.)(4.0)
Northeast corner of Pine St. and Magnolia Ave. (37-39 S. Magnolia Ave.)
160....Rogers Building
(Cross to the northwest corner.)(4.0)
Northwest corner of Pine St. and Magnolia Ave. (69 E. Pine St.)
161....Kuhl-Delaney Building
Northwest corner of Church St. and Court Ave. (45 E. Church St.)
162....Site of Central House
(Look south across the street.)(4.2)
South side of Church St., between Orange and Magnolia Aves. (201 S. Orange Ave.)
163....Signature Building
(Walk north 100 feet on Court Ave.)(4.3)
West side of Court Ave., between Church and Pine Sts. (128-130 S. Court Ave.)
164....Site of Orange Hotel
(Continue north 25 feet on Court Ave.)(4.3)
West side of Court Ave., between Church and Pine Sts. (120 S. Court Ave.)
165....Site of Orlando Ice Company
(Continue north 25 feet on Court Ave. and look east across the street.)(4.3)
East side of Court Ave., between Church and Pine Sts. (119-125 S. Court Ave.)
166....Site of Opera House
(Continue north 25 feet on Court Ave. and look east across the street.)(4.3)
East side of Court Ave., between Church and Pine Sts. (117 S. Court Ave.)
167....Site of First Federal
(Continue north 25 feet on Court Ave.)(4.3)
West side of Court Ave., between Pine and Church Sts. (114 Court Ave.)
168....Site of Holden Restaurant
(Continue north on Court Ave. to the intersection with Pine St.)(4.3)
Southwest corner of Pine St. and Court Ave. (38 E. Pine St.)
169....Orange County Building and Loan Association
(Look across to the southeast corner.)(4.3)
Southeast corner of Pine St. and Court Ave. (50 E. Pine St.)
170....Smith Building
(Look across to the northeast corner.)(4.3)
Northeast corner of Pine St. and Court Ave. (55 E. Pine St.)
171....Lartigue Building
(Look across to the northwest corner.)(4.3)
Northwest corner of Pine St. and Court Ave. (43 E. Pine St.)
172....Curtis Building
(Walk west 50 feet on Pine St.)(4.3)
South side of Pine St., between Court and Orange Aves. (28-36 E. Pine St.)
173....Knox-Bacon Building
(Continue 25 feet west.)(4.3)
South side of Pine St., between Court and Orange Aves.
174....Site of Cooper Barber Shop
(Continue 75 feet west.)(4.3)
South side of Pine St., between Court and Orange Aves. (20-26 E. Pine St.)
175....Site of Magruder Arcade
(Continue 50 feet west.)(4.3)
South side of Pine St., between Court and Orange Aves. (18 E. Pine St.)
176....Site of King Cabinet Shop
(Continue west on Pine St. to the intersection with Orange Ave., cross to the northeast corner and walk east 25 feet.)(4.4)
North side of Pine St., between Court and Orange Aves. (17 E. Pine St.)
177....Orange County Building and Loan Association
(Walk east 40 feet on Pine St.)(4.4)
North side of Pine St., between Court and Orange Aves. (27 E. Pine St.)
178....Hansen Building
(Continue east 20 feet.)(4.4)
North side of Pine St., between Court and Orange Aves. (29 E. Pine St.)
179....Knox Building
(Continue east 30 feet.)(4.4)
North side of Pine St., between Court and Orange Aves. (35 E. Pine St.)
180....Giles-Ellis Building
(Continue east on Pine St., then walk north 25 feet on Court Ave. and look east across the street.)(4.4)
East side of Court Ave., between Central Blvd. and Pine St.
181....Site of Armory
(Continue north 25 feet on Court Ave. and look east across the street.)(4.4)
East side of Court Ave., between Central Blvd. and Church St. (29 S. Court St.)
182....Site of Fruit & Vegetable Association
(Continue north on Court Ave. to the intersection with Central Blvd. and look across the street to the northwest to the three-story brick building.)(4.5)
North side of Central Blvd., between Orange and Court Aves. (17-19 E. Central Blvd.)
183....Christ Building
(Look across the street to the north.)(4.5)
Northwest corner of Central Blvd. and Court Ave. (31 E. Central Blvd.)
184....Site of Don Mott Building
(Cross the street to the east and continue east 75 feet.)(4.5)
South side of Central Blvd., between Court and Magnolia Aves. (50 E. Central Blvd.)
185....Orlando Arcade
(Continue east on Central Blvd. to the intersection with Magnolia Ave.)(4.5)
Southwest corner of Central Blvd. and Magnolia Ave.
186....Site of Lovell's Hotel
(Look across to the southeast corner.)(4.5)
Southeast corner of Central Blvd. and Magnolia Ave. (100 E. Central Blvd.)
187....McEwan Hospital
(Cross to the northeast corner.)(4.5)
Northeast corner of Central Blvd. and Magnolia Ave.
188....Site of Second Courthouse
(Look across the street to the southeast.)(4.5)
South side of Central Blvd., between Magnolia and Rosalind Aves. (108 E. Central Blvd.)
189....McEwan-Sanders Building
(Look across to the northwest corner.)(4.5)
Northwest corner of Central Blvd. and Magnolia Ave. (65 E. Central Blvd.)
190....Site of Courthouse Annex
(Continue north on Magnolia Ave. 75 feet past Wall St.)(4.5)
East side of Magnolia Ave., between Central Blvd. and Wall St. (19 N. Magnolia Ave.)
191....Site of Speir Store
(Continue north on Magnolia Ave. to the intersection with Washington St.)(4.6)
Southeast corner of Magnolia Ave. and Washington St. (45 N. Magnolia Ave.)
192...Southern Bell Telephone Co.
(Look across to the northeast corner.)(4.6)
Northeast corner of Magnolia Ave. and Washington St.
193....Site of Hayden House
(Look across to the southwest corner.)(4.6)
Southwest corner of Magnolia Ave. and Washington St. (50 N. Magnolia Ave.)
194....Site of The Bishopstead
(Look across to the northwest corner.)(4.6)
Northwest corner of Magnolia Ave. and Washington St.
195....Site of Grannis Office
(Continue north on Magnolia Ave. to the intersection with Jefferson St., and look across to the southwest corner.)(4.7)
Southwest corner of Magnolia Ave. and Jefferson St. (130 N. Magnolia Ave.)
196....St. Luke Episcopal Cathedral
(Look across to the northwest corner.)(4.7)
Northwest corner of Magnolia Ave. and Jefferson St.
197....Post Office
(Cross to the northeast corner.)(4.7)
Northeast corner of Magnolia Ave. and Jefferson St.
198....Site of Johnson House
(Continue north on Magnolia Ave. to the intersection with Robinson St. and look across to the southwest corner.)(4.7)
Southwest corner of Magnolia Ave. and Robinson St. (217 N. Magnolia Ave.)
199....Site of Geer House
(Cross to the northeast corner and look across to the northwest corner.)(4.8)
Northwest corner of Magnolia Ave. and Robinson St.
200....Site of Congregational Church
(Continue north 200 feet and look west across the street.)(4.8)
West side of Magnolia Ave., between Robinson and Livingston Sts. (312 N. Magnolia Ave.)
201....Site of Eola Cottage
(Continue north 50 feet on Magnolia Ave. and look west across the street.)(4.8)
West side of Magnolia Ave., between Robinson and Livingston Sts. (320 N. Magnolia Ave.)
202....Taylor Building
(Continue north on Magnolia Ave. to the intersection with Livingston St. and look across the intersection to the northwest.)(4.9)
North side of Livingston St., between Orange and Magnolia Aves. (82 E. Livingston St.)
203....Site of Clapp House
(Walk east to the next intersection, cross to the northeast corner and walk north 225 feet on Magnolia Ave.)(5.0)
East side of Magnolia Ave., between Amelia and Livingston Sts. (419 N. Magnolia Ave.)
204....Magnolia Manor
(Walk north on Magnolia Ave. to the intersection with Amelia St. and look to the southwest corner.)(5.1)
Southwest corner of Magnolia Ave. and Amelia St. (424 N. Magnolia Ave.)
205....Site of Wyoming Hotel
(Continue north on Magnolia Ave., then walk east on Hillcrest St. to the point of beginning.)(5.2)