<p>The Johnson-Wolff House is a historic home in Tampa, Florida. It is located at 6823 South DeSoto Street. It was first built around 1885 by the Plant Steamship Company. Captain Henry Johnson bought it in 1883 and renovated and expanded it. His daughter, Ethel Wolff later owned it, which is where it got its name.</p><br>
<p>On July 24, 1974, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Leiman House is a historic home in Tampa, Florida. It is located at 716 South Newport Avenue. On September 9, 1974, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. A "good example" of a fully developed Prairie style house, the building&#39;s architect was M. Leo Elliott. It has two stories, is of brick and block construction with a stucco exterior, and includes a hipped roof with eaves and front walls that enclose a raised patio. The home belonged to Henry Leiman , a manufacturer of cigar boxes.</p><br>
<p>The T. C. Taliaferro House  is a historic home in Tampa, Florida. It is located at 305 South Hyde Park. It was built by architects Grable, Weber & Groves in the Classical Revival style in the late 19th century. It represents the height of style from 1875 to 1899.</p><br>
<p>On October 1, 1974, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The building presently (2017) houses the Helen Gordon Davis Centre for Women.</p><br>
<p>The William E. Curtis House  is a historic home in Tampa, Florida; located at 808 East Curtis Street. On August 27, 1987, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. Curtis was a nurseryman</p><br>
<p>Built around 1905 - 1906, the house is one of the oldest residential structures in Tampa&#39;s Seminole Heights neighborhoods. The two-story, frame structure is an example of Dutch Colonial Revival style and features a gambrel roof.</p><br>
<p>The Bing Rooming House Museum  is a museum in a historic residence in the Lincoln Park neighborhood Plant City, Florida, United States at 205 South Allen Street. It was built about 1928 as a boarding house and was operated by Mrs. Janie Wheeler Bing for African-Americans who were not allowed to stay in segregated white hotels or eat in white restaurants. On September 14, 2002, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. It has been renovated. The museum is open Monday through Thursday from 2 pm to 6 pm.</p><br>
<p>The A. P. Dickman House, also known as the Ruskin House Bed and Breakfast, is a historic home in Ruskin, Florida built in 1911. It is located at 120 Dickman Drive, Southeast. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The house combines elements of Colonial Revival and Queen Anne architecture.</p><br>
<p>The bed and breakfast business has reportedly been closed.</p><br>
<p>The George McA. Miller House  is a historic home in Ruskin, Florida. It is located at 508 Tamiami Trail. It was built in early 1900s as the residence of George McAnelly Miller, president of Ruskin College and his wife Addie Dickman Miller, the colleges vice-president. It currently houses the Ruskin Woman&#39;s Club.</p><br>
<p>On July 23, 1974, it was added to the US National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Alderman House  is a historic house located at 2572 East First Street in Fort Myers, Florida. It is locally significant as an excellent example of the Mediterranean Revival style architecture in Fort Myers during the Florida Land Boom of the 1920s.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The stuccoed -story house was completed in 1925 in the Mediterranean Revival/Spanish Colonial Revival style of architecture. The house is currently a wedding and events venue.</p><br>
<p>On December 1, 1988, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Pinecrest Gardens is a 20 acre park in Pinecrest, Florida on the corner of Southwest 111th Street  and Southwest 57th Avenue .</p><br>
<p>It was the original location of the Parrot Jungle, a theme park started in 1936 until they relocated to the city of Miami&#39;s Watson Island in 2003. The Village of Pinecrest acquired the property over 60 years later in 2002, turning it into a dedicated municipal park. The gardens received a historic designation from the USA Department of the Interior October 17, 2011, adding it to the National Register of Historic Places as the Parrot Jungle Historic District and recognized by the Cultural Landscape Foundation.</p><br>
<p>Much of Parrot Jungle can still be seen in the property, today. At the time of acquiring the property, Village leadership recognized the historic nature and worked with the goal to preserve the site. From then on, the gardens have worked to maintain, preserve and restore much of the park&#39;s original features such as the original mosaic pathways, original birdcages and plant displays.</p><br>
<p>Based on their ecology, the park is divided into the Upper and Lower Gardens. The Upper Gardens have dry meadow gardens, a former Pine Rockland ecosystem, sunny vistas and display plantings. The Lower Gardens have more native ecosystems such as hardwood hammocks, tropical plantings and a native cypress slough.</p><br>
<p>The Gardens is home to a geodesic dome amphitheater, accommodating 530 seats that allows thousands to enjoy various performances each year. The dome was built in the early 1940&#39;s and is located front of the original Parrot Bowl (now named Hammock Pavilion).</p><br>
<p>The park includes a variety of sites including a Botanical gardens, butterfly exhibit, swan lake, zoo, children&#39;s playground, and a popular splash-n-play area. Various streams run throughout the pathways, housing turtles, koi fish and many other fish species. The park also hosts an annual fine arts festival, MagiCamp, and is available for rental for private parties, receptions, etc.</p><br>
<p>John James Audubon State Park is located on U. S. Route 41 in Henderson, Kentucky, just south of the Ohio River. Its inspiration is John James Audubon, the ornithologist, naturalist, and painter who resided in Henderson from 1810 to 1819 when Henderson was a frontier village.</p><br>
<p>The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Most of the park has been dedicated as a state nature preserve by the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves, which also added a 650-acre addition in 2016 through its Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund program.</p><br>
<p>This is 1 of 3 state parks in Kentucky that was in the path of totality during the 2024 total solar eclipse.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John James Audubon operated small businesses in Henderson, Kentucky with mixed success, but his passion was exploring the forests of the region and sketching and painting wildlife, particularly birds.</p><br>
<p>In 1934, the Wolf Hills area in Henderson was selected for a new state park (meeting the minimum 300 acres needed for park development). Susan Towles, a Henderson librarian, supplied the necessary research and documentation to establish a historic connection to the land and Audubon.</p><br>
<p>In September 1934, a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) base Camp Cromwell (named in honor of the Director of the Kentucky State Parks, Emma Guy Cromwell) was established off US 41 near John James Audubon State Park. After the 300-acres was procured for park development, approximately 200 CCC, Company 1540 employees were dispatched from their West Virginia base to Henderson where they were joined by others including several Henderson natives. Over the next four years the CCC drained swamps, build two lakes and developed trails and roads. With the help of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the park shelters, the Tea House (presently the park office), and the Audubon Museum were constructed from local stone and mill work. The entire project cost approximately $500,000.</p><br>
<p>Progress on the park was not always smooth. There were long delays caused by lack of funds and disagreements over the park&#39;s focus. Henderson attorney and businessman Gibney Oscar Letcher helped guide the project along; working among the CCC, WPA, National Park Service, Kentucky Department of Parks, local contractors and suppliers, the Audubon Park Committee and the Audubon family descendants.</p><br>
<p>The Wilderness Lake was completed in the spring of 1938 but the work continued slowly on the Tea House and gardens, the recreational lake, the roads and the cottages. The Tea House was completed in June 1940 and served three meals daily until December 1941. In the spring of 1941, the cottages were completed and the recreational lake was excavated and filled. That completed the work under the federal New Deal programs.</p><br>
<p>After the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, Kentucky and the nation prepared for war. Camp Cromwell was converted into a Naval Cadet Aviation Training School during the war and supervised by Evansville College (presently the University of Evansville).</p><br>
<p>After WWII, attention returned to John James Audubon State Park. Beginning in 1948 and lasting until 1955, a program of restoration and construction was carried out. Some of the projects completed were new museum lighting installation; picnic area, bathhouse and beach, landscaping, parking, lake dam and shelter construction. From 1960 to 1969 another $500,000 was invested in the park with construction of a camping area and nine-hole golf course. Additional land was acquired bringing the park to nearly 700 acres. New picnic shelters and employee housing were also constructed.</p><br>
<p>The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>In 1990 the state General Assembly allocated $2.5 million for a thorough renovation of the museum and the additional 9,500 ft&sup2; nature center to promote the study of nature. In the spring of 1992, the largest renovation in the museum&#39;s 54-year history began and in December 1993 the refurbished and expanded museum reopened.</p><br>
<h2>Audubon Museum</h2><br>
<p>The museum design is French heritage. The style also permitted the inclusion of small niches in the museum tower for nesting birds.</p><br>
<p>Alice Tyler, widow of J. J. Audubons great-grandson, Leonard Sanford Tyler, had been in contact with Susan Towles during the parks development. It was her wish that the large personal collection of Audubon material in her possession be placed on loan in the new Audubon Museum. Mrs. Tyler shipped her collection to Henderson in the spring of 1938 and the museum opened July 16, 1938.</p><br>
<p>The Tyler collection was later purchased in 1994 through numerous donations made to the Friends of Audubon, as well as contributions from the Preston Foundation and the Kentucky State Parks.</p><br>
<p>Today, the museum proudly displays one of the worlds largest collections of original Audubon art that made the wildlife artist a legend. But it is the personal artifacts and memorabilia that portray the often difficult life of Audubon - more starving artist than artistic success. The museums four exhibit halls chronicle Audubon&#39;s life, including his 1810–1819 residence in Henderson, Kentucky. Highlights of the collection include the American Bald Eagle oil, a four-volume edition of the Birds of America, a personal seal, handwritten journals, the silver service Audubon sent from England to his devoted wife, Lucy (replacing the service set that was lost during bankruptcy).</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Audubon Park consists of approximately 700 acre, primarily hilly forests that include 338 acre dedicated by the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves with old-growth trees and trails.</p><br>
<p>Highlights include the internationally acclaimed Audubon Museum that features numerous valuable examples of Audubon art as well as a gift shop and nature center; a nine-hole golf course; six cottages; a 69 acre campground that accommodates tents and campers; a 28 acre manmade fishing lake with rental pedal boats; 6.5 mi of forest hiking trails; tennis courts; four picnic shelters; and playground.</p><br>
<p>A variety of year-round, interpretive programs are conducted under the direction of a full-time naturalist and museum educator. Programs focus on art history, as well as native plants, animals, conservation and recycling.</p><br>
<p>Audubon Park receives local support from a not-for-profit organization, the Friends of Audubon.</p><br>
<p>Casa Rio  is a house that was built in 1926. It was designed by architects Henry Van Ryn and Gerrit de Gelleke in the Mission/Spanish Revival style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1996; the listing included one contributing building and two contributing structures on 2.3 acre.</p><br>
<p>Van Ryn and de Gelleke worked mostly in Wisconsin; the Charles W. Stribley House in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, built in 1910, is another of their works that is NRHP-listed. Since 2001 the home has been owned by AveXis founder and biotechnology executive John A. Carbona.</p><br>
<p>The Murphy-Burroughs House, also known as the Burroughs Home and Gardens, is a historic home in Fort Myers, Florida. It is located at 2505 1st Street. On August 1, 1984, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Burroughs Home provides living history tours and functions as an event venue. The three-story home sits on the Caloosahatchee. The beautiful veranda wraps around 3 sides of the house. Mona&#39;s Dancing Porch extends from the East side of the Historic Structure. Completion of a large, open waterfront pavilion occurred in 2015 to accommodate weddings and events.</p><br>
<p>The Murphy-Burroughs House was Ft. Myers&#39; first year-round luxury home. It is in the Georgian Revival style and was built in 1901 for John T. Murphy, a cattle rancher. The construction of this home kicked off the "building boom" of the area. Each step of the process was followed by the local newspaper, The Fort Myers Press.</p><br>
<p>Nelson Burroughs bought the house in 1919. In 1922, Mr. Burroughs transferred ownership of the Home to his daughters, Mona & Jettie. Mona bequeathed the property to The City of Fort Myers prior to her death in 1978. The passing of her husband, Franz Fischer, in 1983, marked the end of its use as a residence.</p><br>
<p>The Averitt-Winchester House  is a historic house located on the west side of State Road 59, south of the Moccasin Gap-Cromartie Road junction in Miccosukee, Florida, United States. The house is locally significant in its association with post-American Civil War settlement of the area and essentially unaltered appearance.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The house, built c. 1881, is a one-story, gable-front-and-wing, frame vernacular building resting on brick piers. With a clapboard exterior, it has an irregular layout with two ell extensions on either side and a high-pitched tin roof pierced by two brick chimneys. the house is the oldest residence in the community, and its owners were from the earliest settler families of the area. The Averitts played an instrumental role in the founding of Indian Springs Baptist Church, providing the land for the second church building.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Coral Gables Merrick House  is a historic house located at 907 Coral Way in Coral Gables, Florida.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was originally constructed as the childhood residence of George E. Merrick, founder of the city of Coral Gables.</p><br>
<p>On April 13, 1973, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places, and since then it has been restored to its 1925 appearance by the City of Coral Gables, and is open to the public for tours twice a week.</p><br>
<p>The Homestead Town Hall, also known as the Redlands District Chamber of Commerce, It is located at 41 North Krome Avenue. On November 7, 1997, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The building was originally two separate buildings that date to 1917 and 1924, which were subsequently connected. It was the first municipal building in Homestead.</p><br>
<p>This property is part of the Homestead Multiple Property Submission.</p><br>
<p>The Historic Homestead Town Hall Museum is located in Homestead Town Hall. The museum features photos, artifacts and films about the city&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>The G. Carl Adams House is a historic home in Miami Springs, Florida. It is located at 31 Hunting Lodge Court. On November 1, 1985, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. It is a work of Curtiss & Bright.</p><br>
<p>This home, built around 1924–1925 in the "Hunting Lodge Park" section of Country Club Estates (today Miami Springs, FL). Miami Springs City website shows that the house was built in 1925; however, Miami-Dade County records show it being built in 1924.</p><br>
<p>It was and is currently among the largest residences in the area at the time and was prominently featured in the developments sales brochures. The design is believed to be the work of Martin Luther Hampton, a well-known architect of the period. Hamptons portfolio includes notable projects like the Curtiss Mansion and the Lua Curtiss House #1 and #2 (both built for his mother).</p><br>
<p>George Carl Adams and his wife Dorothy were the original occupants of the home. George Adams was the half-brother of aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss, and the two partnered in several real estate and business ventures. These ventures included the Florida Ranch and Dairy Corporation and the Everglades Construction Company, which was responsible for building the streets and sidewalks in Opa-locka, Hialeah, and Country Club Estates.</p><br>
<p>The G. Carl Adams House is a prominent two-story structure, arranged in a modified U-shape that wraps around a brick-paved central courtyard, bordered by a breezeway with graceful arched openings. The property is enclosed by a four-foot stucco wall, reflecting the Pueblo Revival style with its distinct hand-sculpted aesthetic. Architectural features such as buttresses, water spouts, and dark-stained wooden details, along with irregular parapet walls, contribute to its unique character. The buildings flat roofs and deeply recessed windows, set into thick, roughly textured walls, define its exterior. From the rear, the homes terraced, multi-level design stands out, especially when viewed from the adjacent golf course. While a modern pool has been added, the house remains a leading example of Pueblo Revival architecture in the area.</p><br>
<p>The Hequembourg House was a historic home in Miami Springs, Florida. It was located at 851 Hunting Lodge Drive. The pueblo-style structure was constructed in 1926 by architects Curtiss & Bright. It was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on November 1, 1985. The building was significantly damaged by Hurricane Wilma in 2005, declared unsafe, and was subsequently demolished on October 1, 2010. It was removed from the Register in January 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Millard–McCarty House is a historic home in Miami Springs, Florida. In 1986 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It is located at 424 Hunting Lodge, within a development by Curtis and Bright.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story Pueblo Revival-style house which is U-shaped in plan. It was completed in about 1926</p><br>
<p>The first owner was Ray Millard, who was the first postmasterof Hialeah. From 1947 to at least 1985 it was owned by William McCarty, mayor of Miami Beach during 1948–51.</p><br>
<p>The Glenn H. Curtiss Mansion and Gardens is a historic home located at 500 Deer Run in Miami Springs, Florida and open to the public as an event space or for private tours by prior arrangement.</p><br>
<p>It is located at the northern edge of Miami International Airport.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Designed in the Pueblo Revival style, the mansion was constructed in 1925 by aviation pioneer Glenn Hammond Curtiss, developer of the cities of Hialeah, Opa-locka, Florida, and Miami Springs. Curtiss lived at the large, two-story residence with his wife, Lena Curtiss until his death in 1930. Mrs. Curtiss referred to the mansion as Dar-Err-Aha, which means "House of Happiness."</p><br>
<p>The mansion was the largest of Pueblo themed houses built by the Curtiss-Wright Company in its development of Country Club Estates in Miami Springs. The house features a central patio that faces the eastern perimeter of the golf course. The landscaped estate consisted of over 30 acre, with a small lake on the east side of the property. Curtiss brought many species of water birds to the lake, including flamingos and swans. Together with the adjacent property, it formed a 21 acre complex.</p><br>
<p>After Curtiss&#39;s death in the early 1930s, Lena Curtiss married H. Sayre Wheeler, a friend and business associate of her husband. Wheeler served as mayor of Miami Springs from 1942 to 1944, and he was part owner of the Michaels and Wheeler Insurance Company. The couple lived in the house until the late 1940s. The estate was sold in the mid-1950s and became the Miami Springs Villas. On January 9, 1969, the estate hosted the Miami Touchdown Club annual dinner where Joe Namath famously guaranteed that his New York Jets would defeat the heavily favored Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III. The estate was sold to Forte Hotels, International, Inc. in the late 1970s, and it currently is owned by the city of Miami Springs.</p><br>
<p>Since 1998, the Pueblo Revival-style Mansion has been the property of the City of Miami Springs, and the not-for-profit all volunteer Curtiss Mansion, Inc. was formed to restore and operate this historic home.</p><br>
<p>Designated a Miami Springs historic site in 1987, the mansion was added to the NRHP on December 21, 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Its architect, Martin L. Hampton, was one of Miami&#39;s most prominent architects during the 1920s—his designs include the former Miami Beach City Hall and the Congress Building in downtown Miami. The house is roughly V-shaped in plan and constructed of hollow clay tile with a rough textured stucco exterior. The roof is flat with irregular parapet walls embellished by projecting waterspouts and irregular shaped openings. The main entrance to the residence is set within a deeply recessed T-shaped opening and marked by a flat-roofed porte cochere. At the south end of the lake is an arbor and barbecue grill. The grill was constructed of oolitic limestone (coral rock), which was a by-product of digging the lake.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>Beginning in the late 1970s, the house was subject to vandalism and a number of fires. In 1998, a public/private partnership of Curtiss Mansion, Inc. (CMI), along with the State of Florida Division of Historical Resources, Miami-Dade County, Miami-Dade County Commissioner Rebeca Sosa, the Miami-Dade County Metropolitan Planning Organization, the Florida Municipal Insurance Trust, the Miami Springs Historical Society, the City of Miami Springs and countless private and corporate donors, the mansion reopened to the public in 2012. After 17 years of grassroots efforts, including raising several million dollars, the mansion became available for historic, cultural, educational, recreational, social, civic and other community uses. Although the mansion is owned by the City of Miami Springs, CMI sustains fundraising efforts, maintenance, daily operations and oversight of the mansion and all of its activities.</p><br>
<p>Fort Richardson was a United States Army installation located in present-day Jacksboro, Texas. Named in honor of Union General Israel B. Richardson, who died in the Battle of Antietam during the American Civil War, it was active from 1867 to 1878. Today, the site, with a few surviving buildings, is called Fort Richardson State Park, Historic Site and Lost Creek Reservoir State Trailway. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1963 for its role in securing the state&#39;s northern frontier in the post-Civil War era.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>As much as any frontier army installation, Fort Richardson facilitated white immigration and settlement in north-central Texas. It was part of a system of forts along the Texas frontier to protect and encourage settlement in north-central and West Texas. Others included Forts Griffin, Concho, Belknap, Chadbourne, Stockton, Davis, McKavett, Clark, McIntosh, Inge, and Phantom Hill in Texas, and Fort Sill in Oklahoma. Some "subposts or intermediate stations" include Bothwick&#39;s Station on Salt Creek between Fort Richardson and Fort Belknap, Camp Wichita near Buffalo Springs between Fort Richardson and Red River Station, and Mountain Pass between Fort Concho and Fort Griffin.</p><br>
<p>The original site selection was ordered for a location near Buffalo Springs in Clay County, about 20 mi north of Fort Richardson. The location proved untenable and unfit for a semipermanent installation. The area lacked timber and adequate water resources, and the USA considered it "hostile" territory, with Native Americans often raiding the area. In 1862, an entire town, Henrietta, northwest of Buffalo Springs, was abandoned due to lack of security. As a result, the USA 6th Cavalry Regiment moved south to the present location of Fort Richardson.</p><br>
<p>In 1867, construction began by the 6th Cavalry on the 300 acre site along "Lost Creek, a small tributary of the West Fork of the Trinity River", Old-time cowboy author Frank H. Maynard spent time at Fort Richardson in 1872 when he had come to Jacksboro on a cattle drive.</p><br>
<p>Units that occupied the fort included the 6th Cavalry Regiment, the 4th Cavalry Regiment, and the USA 11th Infantry Regiment, along with parts of the 10th Cavalry Regiment and 24th Infantry Regiment (United States), both Buffalo Soldier regiments.</p><br>
<p>Life was hard for a soldier at Fort Richardson. Routine duties included long, arduous patrols along the frontier from Clay and Jack Counties west to Palo Duro Canyon near present-day Amarillo. Battles with Comanche and Kiowa Indians became commonplace as the USA cavalry and infantry units sought to prove their ability to repel attacks and facilitate white settlement.</p><br>
<p>In 1871 while touring the system, General William T. Sherman stayed at Fort Richardson and narrowly missed the Warren Wagon Train Raid. General Sherman arrived at Fort Sill and arrested Kiowa chiefs Satanta and Big Tree, and had them sent to Jacksboro to stand trial for their role in the massacre. In July 1871, they were tried, convicted, and sentenced to death, which was later commuted to life in prison. They were the first Indians tried and convicted in a Texas civil court system.</p><br>
<p>Following these events, General Sherman authorized the commander of the 4th Cavalry, Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie, to begin offensive operations against the Comanche and Kiowa in the Texas Panhandle. One scouting party fought in the Battle of Palo Duro Canyon in September 1874, a USA victory that ended the Red River War with Quanah Parkers Comanches and Red Warbonnets Kiowas. The cavalry captured so much of the tribes&#39; provisions that they were forced to move back to reservations in Oklahoma before winter. This battle was largely responsible for the end to Comanche and Kiowa raids along the northern frontier between Oklahoma and Texas.</p><br>
<h2>Abandonment and reuse</h2><br>
<p>After its victory, the army saw no need to maintain Fort Richardson, so abandoned the post on May 23, 1878. "It was used as an Indian school for a short time afterwards". The 55 buildings, many made of stone and cottonwood lumber, fell into disrepair. Thanks to a group of Jacksboro residents, the fort was declared a state historic site in 1963 and came under the management of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. In 1968, extensive renovations began, and in 1973, it reopened as Fort Richardson State Historic Park.</p><br>
<p>Today, it is called Fort Richardson State Park, Historic Site and Lost Creek Reservoir State Trailway. Visitors can tour seven restored original buildings, including the post hospital, officers quarters, powder magazine, morgue, commissary, guardhouse, and bakery. Two replica buildings of the enlisted mens barracks and the officer&#39;s barracks house the Interpretive Center. Guided tours of the buildings are held daily.</p><br>
<p>The Withers-Maguire House is a small event venue and historic house museum in Ocoee, Florida. It is located at 16 East Oakland Avenue and is owned by the City of Ocoee. It was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on April 2, 1987.</p><br>
<p>The builder was retired, a native Kentuckian, who began wintering in Florida in 1884. He spent much of his time acquiring land in western Orange County and growing citrus. In 1888, he built this house and lived here until his death the following year. Withers’ widow, Martha, sold the house and its furnishings in 1910 to and his family, whose house had recently burned. Like Withers, Maguire was very involved in citrus growing, and the family became prominent citizens in Ocoee. Maguires son, Fred, was Ocoees first mayor, and another son, Raymer, was the first city attorney. David Maguire died in 1913, but members of his family continued to reside in the house until 1979. After a commercial venture to convert the home to offices was abandoned, the City of Ocoee acquired the house in 1984. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Made from pine cut and milled on this site, it is an example of Stick Victorian style architecture. One of the finest houses in west Orange County, it was one of the first to have concealed electrical wiring and closets. The city restored the house following its acquisition using a combination of city funds and a State of Florida grant. The downstairs rooms is available for rental and is suitable for smaller gatherings or to support an outside event. A modern catering kitchen is available. The upstairs rooms serve as a museum depicting early 1900s life in Ocoee. Current information regarding the City of Ocoee can be found.</p><br>
<p>The Comstock-Harris House, also known as Eastbank, is a historic home in Winter Park, Florida. It is located at 724 Bonita Drive. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 13, 1983. It is the oldest surviving home in Winter Park.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A small home was built on the site of the present house in 1878. In 1883, William C. Comstock, a Chicago businessman, finished construction into its current incarnation, that of a large Queen Anne style estate. The Comstock-Harris House, also known as Eastbank, is the oldest surviving home in Winter Park. It is situated on the east bank of Lake Osceola.</p><br>
<p>Originally a winter cottage, it consists of three floors and three stairways. The main staircase turns in front of a stained glass window. Red bricks make up the foundation of the house as well as the six interior fireplaces. The original color of the house was yellow with dark green trim. Before the grounds were subdivided, they consisted of sixty acres. Camphor trees lined the long drive that led to the house, which is now Bonita Drive.</p><br>
<p>Comstock died in 1924. The house was then sold to a Mr. Lasbury and then sold again in 1928 to John Harris. It has remained in the family since then.</p><br>
<p>The Brelsford House  was a historic home in Palm Beach, Florida, United States, located at 1 Lake Trail. Built between 1888 and 1903, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 3, 1974. The Neoclassical house was destroyed in August of the following year, but it remains on the Register.</p><br>
<p>The house was built for E. M. Brelsford, Palm Beach&#39;s first postmaster; it was he who applied for a post office in "Palm Beach". He also founded the first store, a general store. The money to build the house came from the sale of his Palm Beach land to Henry Flagler. Brelsford is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in West Palm Beach.</p><br>
<p>The Mickens House is a historic house located in West Palm Beach, Florida. It is locally significant as one of the oldest surviving residences in West Palm Beach.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The building is basically an American four square in plan and design. Distinguishing features include a front porch which spans the first floor of the main elevation and the awnings which shield each window opening and the porch.</p><br>
<p>On April 11, 1985, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It is also a contributing property to the Northwest Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The William H. Waterhouse House is a historic residence in Maitland, Florida, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The home is a 2½ story L-shaped structure located at 820 South Lake Lily Drive, and was originally built in 1884 by carpenter William Waterhouse. Additions to the house were completed in about 1908, 1910, 1930, and the 1950s. It is one of only a few remaining examples of nineteenth century vernacular architecture in Maitland.</p><br>
<p>The Maitland Historical Society owns the house and operates it as a Victorian era historic house museum known as the Waterhouse Residence Museum. The adjacent 1883 Carpentry Shop Museum features a display of 19th and early 20th century woodworking tools.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places February 2, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Edward Hill Brewer House  is a historic home in Winter Park, Florida. It is located at 240 Trismen Terrace and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 22, 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1895, the Brewer family first visited Winter Park, searching for a warmer climate to escape New York&#39;s winters. In 1898, Edward Brewer, an industrialist, bought forty acres of land to construct a house. Construction began in 1899. He named the house "The Palms" and frequently entertained the community there. In 1923, Brewer renovated the house to more closely his resemble his Colonial Revival mansion in New York. In 1938, the Brewer family sold the home.</p><br>
<p>The Fred C. Aiken House is an example of Addison Mizner&#39;s Mediterranean-inspired architecture from 1925. This historically designated residence is Located at the corner of Paloma Avenue and Hibiscus Street, in the Old Floresta Historic District in Boca Raton, Florida.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Fred C. Aiken was a film industry executive who moved with his wife Lottie to Boca Raton FL in the late 1920s. In 1929. Mr. Aiken became Boca Raton&#39;s third Mayor, and served until 1938. He then held the position of town clerk for 10 years after that, ultimately living in this house for 31 years.</p><br>
<p>The Fred C. Aiken House, nestled in the heart of the historic neighborhood of Old Floresta, an example of Mediterranean Revival style by American architect Addison Mizner. Spanish hand made Clay Roofs, frame wood structure and stucco, Dade pine floors, perky cypress doors and ceilings, and Spanish decorative tiles are common in these houses. There were 29 Mizner-designed Spanish-style houses in Old Floresta. Few of them are still well-preserved.</p><br>
<p>This property has been preserved and is still standing today as a reflection of the well-built craftsmanship of Addison Mizner Industries and later Hermann V. von Holst and his team from Chicago IL. This 2-story house was designed in 1925 and built in 1926 by the Mizner Development Corporation. According to the design catalog for the Old Floresta houses, this is the only example of Model C non-reversed ever built.</p><br>
<p>Old Floresta became the first historic district of Boca Raton, Florida, in 1980. Today, it is one of the most beautiful and exclusive neighborhoods in the city. This narrow tree-lined streets neighborhood was conceived by Addison Mizner for two purposes: to invigorate the local real estate market and also provide housing to executives of the Mizner Development Corporation (developers of the Cloister Inn, which is nowadays the famed Boca Raton Resort.</p><br>
<p>The Fred C. Aiken house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in September 1992. There are two houses listed in the National Register in Boca Raton, both in Old Floresta. The other house is the Lavender House, two blocks south-west from the Fred C. Aiken House, where Hermann Von Holst lived until his death in 1953.</p><br>
<p>The J. B. Evans House  is a historic house located at 142 South Ocean Boulevard in Delray Beach, Florida, United States. It retains its essential historic architectural integrity, and is a landmark in Delray Beach.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The house has a two-story, wood-frame structure, and was originally constructed as a single-family residence. Built in 1936, during the Depression as a seasonal residence, the construction represents what locally is known as Resort Colonial Style. It has an irregular floor plan and was built on a concrete slab foundation. The first story has horizontal clapboard, and the second story is board and batten. The house has a composition-shingled complex hip roof that is low-pitched and has a brick chimney in the center. The windows are filled with 6/6 double-hung wooden sashes which are protected by operable louvered shutters.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on March 28, 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Sandoway Discovery Center</h2><br>
<p>The Sandoway Discovery Center is a coastal ecosystems and marine life center. It features native plants, live native and invasive reptile species, a coral reef pool with sharks and fish, and a large collection of shells from around the world. The center offers environmental education programs and classes.</p><br>
<p>The J. O. Douglas House is a historic house located at 209 Scotland Street in Dunedin, Florida. It is locally significant as one of the oldest buildings in the town and as the home of one of the owners of an important early store in the pioneer community, and it remains an excellent example of vernacular architecture in central Florida.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The -story house, built in 1880, has a T-shaped structure with a central hall flanked by two rooms to the east and one room to the west on the ground floor. The one-story extension (original kitchen) projects from the south (rear) elevation. Two dissimilar chimneys pierce the gable roof of the main portion of the house. Brick piers with lattice infill support the frame structure covered with horizontal siding. Aside from the flat sawn balusters, posts and brackets on the porches, the very simple window treatments, and the projecting bay, the house is simply a five bay rectangular structure with a "Tee" wing addition evidencing no discernable style.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 29, 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Ephraim M. Baynard House is a historic home in Auburndale, Florida, located at 208 West Lake Avenue. On November 10, 2001, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places and houses the Baynard House Museum.</p><br>
<p>The Architect was Alfred Chipman Thorp, and Baynard&#39;s home was designed and built in the Folk Victorian style.</p><br>
<p>The house&#39;s namesake, Ephraim Mikell Baynard (1860-1933) was a real estate developer in the region. Baynard was designated a Great Floridian by the Florida Department of State in the Great Floridians 2000 Program. A plaque attesting the honor is located at the Baynard House.</p><br>
<p>The Lawrence Brown House, better known as the L.B. Brown House, is the home built by Lawrence Bernard Brown a self-made businessman, community leader, and master carpenter in Bartow, Florida. It may be the only home built by a former enslaved person left in Florida. The house "stands as a living testimony to one person&#39;s triumph over adversity."</p><br>
<p>Until 1989, was known as the "Thomas House." It wasn&#39;t until the death of the former resident, Lavina Thomas, that the original builder was discovered.</p><br>
<p>The house is located at 470 L.B. Brown Avenue, Bartow, Florida 33830 (formerly 2nd Ave). Clifton Lewis, president of and other Bartow residents set about restoring old homes in the early 1990s. When Robert Brown, son of L.B., came to look at his childhood home, he casually mentioned to Lewis, his father had built the house. From that point on, it was known as the L.B. Brown Home and the street name was officially changed from 2nd Ave., to L.B. Brown Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The L.B. Brown House was added to the National Register of Historic Places, a division of the National Park Service, on January 4, 2001. The house was completed in 1892.</p><br>
<p>Every year the town of Bartow recognizes L.B. Brown&#39;s "life and achievements" at the annual, usually held mid-February.</p><br>
<p>The L.B. Brown house will be represented at the new. There will be cornerstone with L.B. Brown&#39;s name on it.</p><br>
<p>The Levillain-Letton House is a historic house located in Venice, Florida.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a 2-story Mediterranean Revival style house constructed of textured stucco over clay tile. The four bay plan is rectangular with a one bay wing on its right side, resting on a concrete foundation. The gable roof is clad in concrete barrel tile of the period. It was built in 1926 as part of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers development of the city. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 12, 1989.</p><br>
<p>The El Real Retiro  is a Spanish Colonial Revival house in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, United States. Built in 1923 it is located at 636 North Riverside Drive and 647 Faulkner Street. On November 10, 1987, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It was built for millionaire stockbroker and art collector Robert Handley; the dining room was painted with murals by artist Robert E. Locher depicting the history of the colonization of Florida.</p><br>
<p>The Dix House is a historic home in Ormond Beach, Florida, United States. On September 6, 1989, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Dix house was originally built by Colonel Dix for his two sisters. The second floor of the Dix House was built open and used extensively for a wide variety of purposes including an early wedding hall and meeting place. The second floor of the Dix House was called, "Dix Hall" was the site that the colony of New Britain chose to become the City of Ormond on April 22, 1880.</p><br>
<p>More recently the Dix House suffered extensive damage in the hurricanes that visited the area in 2004. In 2007–2008, the home was extensively renovated under the guidance of the historical society to create a period accurate home, with modern amenities. It now has five bedrooms (each with a private bath) and an elevator. The home was purchased in 2016 by Chobee and Becky Ebbets, long time residents of Ormond Beach.</p><br>
<p>The Amos Kling House is a historic house located in Daytona Beach, Florida. It is locally significant for its association with the development of the resort community of Daytona Beach during the early 20th century.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Constructed in 1907, the -story house has an irregular floor-plan. The frame structural system is finished on all elevations with weatherboard siding and wood shingles. It rests on a brick pier foundation with lattice infill. The cross-gable roof is sheathed with asphalt shingles. The vernacular residence is enlivened by features associated with the Shingle Style. It was the summer home of Amos Kling, the father-in-law of USA President Warren Harding. Currently a restaurant, the Cellar, occupies the first floor.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 2, 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Howard Thurman House is the historic home of Howard Thurman in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. It is located at 614 Whitehall Street. Supporters including Reverend Jefferson P. Rogers, a former student of Thurman&#39;s at Howard University and tennis champion and activist Arthur Ashe, worked to preserve the house. It was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on February 23, 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Thursby House located at Blue Spring State Park in Orange City, Florida, was constructed in 1872. The house was once a two-story structure built from three kinds of center-cut pine that had been milled in Savannah, Georgia, and transported by boat to the site.</p><br>
<p>Louis P. Thursby and his family settled on the inlet to Blue Springs, located on the St. Johns River, in 1856. Shortly after arriving, he constructed one of the first steamboat landings and planted one of the earliest orange groves on the upper St. Johns River. His initial residence was a log cabin that he built.</p><br>
<p>Thursby&#39;s son added a third story and kitchen wing in 1900, which is still standing today.</p><br>
<p>A cypress water tank stood near the northeast corner of the house. The tank has recently been removed from its supports.</p><br>
<p>The Louis P. Thursby House is a historic home in Orange City. It is located inside Blue Spring State Park. On May 11, 2000, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Seth French House  is a historic house located at 319 East French Avenue in Orange City, Florida. It is locally significant as one of the oldest dwellings in the county, and also as a good example of Frame Vernacular construction from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The house was built for American Civil War veteran and surgeon Seth French in 1876. He served in the Florida Senate in 1879.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The house, as built originally, consisted of the rectangular main block. On the first floor it included the wraparound veranda on the main (south) and east elevations, parlor, living room, dining room, kitchen, storage area, and small wrap-around porch on the northwest corner. On the second floor it included the three bedrooms, stair hall, and vestibule.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1876 by Seth French, a surgeon and Civil War veteran and later a member of the Florida Senate and the states Commissioner of Immigration. The house was altered 3 times &ndash; in 1905, 1915 and 1925 &ndash; and is now owned by Frenchs great-granddaughter.</p><br>
<p>On February 12, 2003, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The John B. Stetson House , built for hat manufacturer  John B. Stetson, is a historic home in DeLand, Florida, United States. It is located at 1031 Camphor Lane. The house was designed by popular Philadelphia architect George T. Pearson in 1886. Pearson also designed several buildings for Mr. Stetson on the Stetson University campus, as well as the Stetson factory buildings in North Philadelphia.</p><br>
<p>On November 21, 1978, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The house was extensively renovated in 2008 and, although a private residence, is open for scheduled tours.</p><br>
<p>The St. James Building is a historic building in Downtown Jacksonville, Florida, currently housing Jacksonville City Hall. It was designed by architect Henry John Klutho and opened in 1912. One of many structures in downtown Jacksonville designed by Klutho after the Great Fire of 1901, it is considered his Prairie School masterpiece.</p><br>
<p>The building is located at 117 West Duval Street, on the former site of the St. James Hotel. It was designed as a mixed-use building containing the Cohen Bros. Department Store (later May Cohens). The department store closed in 1987, leaving the building empty. In 1993 it was purchased by the City of Jacksonville under the River City Renaissance plan, with the intention of remodeling it as the new City Hall. It reopened in 1997. On April 18, 2012, the American Institute of Architects&#39;s Florida Chapter placed the building on its list of Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>St. James Hotel</p><br>
<p>The original St. James Building was a hotel constructed and owned by investors from Connecticut following the American Civil War. In addition to lodging for 500 guests, it boasted a passenger elevator and a restaurant with excellent cuisine. The facility included a laundry, barbershop, wine room, telegraph office and reading rooms. Touring orchestras performed concerts for the guests, who included society people, celebrities and the rich. At the peak of Jacksonville&#39;s popularity, 65,000 people spent the winter in north Florida. The hotel was so prominent that the public square across the street, known as "City Park", was changed to "St. James Park".</p><br>
<p>Jacksonville&#39;s Great Fire of 1901 destroyed most of the city, including the original St. James. The owner of the St. James property, J. R. Campbell, wanted to rebuild, but did not have the resources. The Windsor Hotel, located adjacent to the St. James, quickly rebuilt and was able to purchase the St. James land from the cash-strapped Campbell to prevent a competing hotel from being built downtown. Jacob and Morris Cohen purchased the St. James property from the Windsor after agreeing not to build a hotel.</p><br>
<p>Cohen Brothers&#39; Department Store</p><br>
<p>In March 1910, Klutho agreed to design a building commissioned by Jacob Elias Cohen for the Cohen Brothers&#39; department store. Among the proposals sent to the Cohens was a striking design for a building with four floors, twice what had been requested. Klutho proposed a "mixed use" design that would contain small shops on the first floor exterior with the department store in the interior and on the second floor. The third and fourth floors would contain offices for rent. He convinced the brothers that their structure would become the center of commerce for Jacksonville and they embraced his idea.</p><br>
<p>Klutho not only designed the building, but acted as construction manager using the fast-track method, whereby work begins prior to design completion. The project was finished in less than a year and a half, using 200 skilled tradesmen. The structure was named the St. James Building, and it was Kluthos crowning achievement. When dedicated on October 21, 1912, it was the largest structure in Jacksonville, occupying an entire city block. The St. James Building was the featured article in The Western Architect and Kluthos work was highlighted throughout the magazine in June 1914.</p><br>
<p>The most striking interior feature was a 75 ft octagonal glass dome, which served as a skylight. The elevators were open "cages", giving passengers a view of the store. The building exterior was decorated with large abstract terra-cotta ornaments.</p><br>
<p>The Cohen brothers operated their store until The May Department Stores Company purchased it in 1958, renaming it May Cohens. Four other May Cohen stores were opened at shopping centers around town and the downtown store in the St. James Building was closed in July 1987.</p><br>
<p>City Hall</p><br>
<p>The city of Jacksonville purchased the building in 1993 as part of the River City Renaissance, a plan put forward by Mayor Ed Austin that included $24 million to purchase and restore the St. James as the new city hall. The goal was to relocate government offices to the center of downtown, all around Hemming Plaza.</p><br>
<p>Saxelbye, Powell, Roberts & Ponder Architects were chosen for what was more of a restoration than renovation. Demolition of all interior walls and partitions was required to remove the effects of prior renovations. A 75 ft octagonal glass dome was reconstructed after it was removed in early 1927 to build more rentable space, much to the disgust of Klutho, who commented that "a showplace was killed" and moved his offices out of the building in protest. In the 1990s restoration, the major change from the original design was the dome, which was mounted on the roof of the fourth floor, instead of between the second and third floors. An infrastructure upgrade was required to meet current building codes, handicap-accessibility requirements and be energy efficient. The new City Hall in the St. James Building opened on December 12, 1997. The Jacksonville Historical Society described the St. James Building as "one of Jacksonville&#39;s most monumental works of art (and) one of the most beautiful city halls in America".</p><br>
<p>The Morocco Temple  is a historic Shriners International building in Jacksonville, Florida. It is located at 219 Newnan Street, and was designed by Jacksonville architect Henry John Klutho. On November 29, 1979, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. The building is the oldest Shrine temple in Florida.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The grand building was erected in 1910-11 in the prairie style of architecture using ancient Egyptian-themed symbols. The entrance was a large battered architrave featuring a massive transom atop short columns in the Egyptian revival style. The three levels included a main floor, a 1,500 seat auditorium and a balcony.</p><br>
<p>The structure was constructed using steel reinforced concrete and stuccoed brick exterior walls with terracotta ornamentation. The auditorium was 90 ft wide with the roof supported by steel trusses. Access to the balcony was via two curved floating reinforced concrete stairways.</p><br>
<p>The auditorium&#39;s ceiling was painted dark blue and imbedded with hundreds of pieces of glass that would reflect light, giving the appearance of stars. The curtain on stage was decorated with views of Arabia.</p><br>
<p>In the 1910s, when Jacksonville was the "Winter Film Capital of the World", Oliver Hardy was a member of the local temple. President William Howard Taft delivered a speech there in 1912, as did Theodore Roosevelt. Shirley Temple was one of the numerous celebrities who appeared at the Morocco Temple.</p><br>
<p>The facility was also used for many major events and conventions.</p><br>
<p>The Morocco Temple was the only auditorium in town</p><br>
<p>Klutho&#39;s design was damaged in the late 1950s when the large metal cornice was removed from the front and sides. The tall ground floor windows on both sides were obscured. At the same time, an addition was constructed on the south side that extended beyond the front entrance, creating an unbalanced design.</p><br>
<h2>Recent usage</h2><br>
<p>The Shriners decided to move to the suburbs in the early 1980s. They wanted more space and room to park, plus "too many of their members were getting mugged leaving at night" according to Hugh Powell, the building&#39;s current owner.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1980s the Shriners built a new facility on the south side. Their old building was purchased in 1984 by Cecil W. Powell & Company, an insurance broker. A huge renovation was required to create offices.</p><br>
<p>However, because the building was on the National Register of Historic Places, the changes were required to retain the basic integrity of the structure. The stage was transformed into an atrium, and the murals were refurbished and encased with glass. The auditorium was destroyed when an additional floor was constructed, but the vertical windows on the building&#39;s sides were uncovered. The tile and staircases remain unmodified, and there are now four carpeted and partitioned floors with a total of 45,000 ft&sup2;.</p><br>
<p>The Powell company moved in 1986, and Jacksonville&#39;s Public Works Department rented the top three floors during the 1990s. Today, the Powell company is on the ground level, one floor is unoccupied, and lawyers, a title company and a court reporter rent office space in the other two.</p><br>
<p>The Jacksonville Historical Society is working on a plan to restore the original exterior cornices.</p><br>
<p>The Mandarin Store and Post Office, officially known as the Mandarin Museum and also known as the Walter Jones Store and Post Office Museum, is a historic site in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. It is located at 12471 Mandarin Road. On October 1, 2001, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The general store was in operation from 1911 until 1964, and is operated as a museum by the Mandarin Museum & Historical Society. The museum features some of the store&#39;s original furnishings and period memorabilia, and is open twice a month.</p><br>
<p>The 310 West Church Street Apartments, also known as the Ambassador Hotel, is a historic building located at 420 North Julia Street in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. On April 7, 1983, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The structure is a brick, six-story building designed in the Georgian Revival architectural style containing Beaux-Arts elements. It opened as the upscale 310 West Church Street Apartments in 1924. Designed by Hentz, Reid and Adler architects, the building was designed in an "H"-shape to provide windows in all of the units. The main entrance is fronted by large rusticated ashlar stonework, set with a scroll keystone.</p><br>
<p>After twenty years of use, it was converted into a hotel. Its name subsequently changed several times: it was the Three-Ten Hotel in 1944, the Hotel Southland in 1947, the Griner Hotel in 1949 and in 1955, the Ambassador Hotel. In 1970, the building was purchased by Sam Easton, now a principal in the Jacksonville real estate firm Easton Sanderson & Company.</p><br>
<p>Over the years the hotel fell into disrepair as Jacksonville&#39;s downtown went into decline. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, but this did not significantly improve its fortunes. It was converted into a low-rent single room occupancy, with rooms rented by the week. It closed in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Renovation</h2><br>
<p>In 2005, Jacksonville businessman Lamonte Carter initiated plans to purchase and restore 310 West Church Street. He had encountered the building when he happened to park in front of it on his way to an appointment. He contacted Easton, who had halted a plan to renovate the surrounding block after construction stalled on the Duval County Courthouse, located nearby. Carter&#39;s plan for 310 West Church, which would cost an estimated $8 million in private equity, government grants, and low-interest loans, involved converting the ground floor to commercial space and turning the top five floors into 50 unit apartments. Carter hoped the renovation will lead to a further collaboration with Easton to renovate the block.</p><br>
<p>Subsequently, the historic property was acquired by Axis Hotels LLC, which announced plans in 2018 to turn the building into a 4- or 5-star boutique hotel with 100 rooms and a rooftop bar. Axis also purchased the adjacent former Marine National Bank building at 404 North Julia Street, which the company plans to demolish to construct a 200-unit apartment building with 15,000 square feet of retail space.</p><br>
<p>The Buckman and Ulmer Building was a historic building in Jacksonville, Florida. It was built in 1925 by Jacksonville architects Marsh & Saxelbye for the Buckman and Ulmer Real Estate Company. It was located at 29-33 West Monroe Street. On December 30, 1992, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. It was later demolished to construct the current Jacksonville Main Library.</p><br>
<p>The Ribault Club is an historic building on Fort George Island near Jacksonville, Florida. It is now home to the Fort George Island Visitor Center. The building was designed in a Colonial Revival architecture style and is credited to Maurice Fatio and Mellen Clark Greeley. It was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on May 11, 2000, and is located on Fort George Road. It was built in 1928 for winter recreation on the site of a former hotel and is considered a legacy of Fort George Island&#39;s resort era. Winter recreational opportunities included golf, tennis, hunting, fishing, and yachting. Today many weddings are held at the Club. The building is listed as a Historic Landmark by the City of Jacksonville. It became part of the Fort George Island Cultural State Park in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Womans Club of Jacksonville was an historic womans club in Jacksonville, Florida. It was located at 861 Riverside Avenue, next to the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens. On November 3, 1992, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Ninah Cummer donated the land and the Tudor-style building was constructed in 1927 to serve the Womans Club of Jacksonville. The original 13,264 square-foot building was designed and built in the same style as Cummers adjacent estate at her request. The structure was designed by architect Mellen Clark Greeley.</p><br>
<p>The Womans Club of Jacksonville was instrumental in advocating for womens suffrage and other issues.</p><br>
<p>The building served as home to the Womans Club of Jacksonville until November 2005. The Cummer Museum acquired the Womans Club of Jacksonville in February 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Woman&#39;s Club donated their records to the Jacksonville Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The building was purchased in 2008 and the exterior was renovated at a total cost of $7 million. Due to extreme termite damage discovered in 2016 the building was demolished.</p><br>
<p>The Groover-Stewart Drug Company Building  is a historic site in Jacksonville, Florida. It is located at 25 North Market Street. On December 30, 1992, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Current Use</h2><br>
<p>In January 2016, the Groover-Stewart Drug Company Building was purchased by workspace provider Novel Coworking, which renovated the building&#39;s interior to offer private offices and co-working space for small businesses.</p><br>
<p>The South Atlantic Investment Corporation Building was a historic building in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. It was built in 1925 for the South Atlantic Investment Corporation, and was located at 35-39 West Monroe Street. On December 30, 1992, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. It was later demolished to construct the current Jacksonville Main Library.</p><br>
<p>The Palace of Florence Apartments is a historic structure in Tampa, Florida, USA. The 28-unit apartment building is located on Tampa&#39;s Davis Islands at 45 Davis Boulevard.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Construction on The Palace of Florence began in 1925. Its Mediterranean Revival architecture mixes medieval and classical elements to reproduce the look of a grand scale Italian palazzo, and includes a dramatic four-story battlement tower with exterior staircase. The design, by artist Athos Menaboni, is loosely based on that of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy., hence the building&#39;s name.</p><br>
<h2>Historic Status</h2><br>
<p>On August 3, 1989, The Palace of Florence Apartments were among several Davis Islands properties included in a Multiple Property Submission(or MPS) to be listed with the USA National Register of Historic Places. The MPS, named "Mediterranean Revival Style Buildings of Davis Islands", included a total of twenty-three historic structures, which were among the first ever built on the newly accessible Davis Islands during the Florida land boom of the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>The Palace of Florence Apartments underwent a complete restoration between 2002-2003.</p><br>
<p>The Centro Asturiano is a historic site in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida, United States. Designed by Tampa-based architect M. Leo Elliott and located at 1913 Nebraska Avenue, the building served as a social club for immigrants and descendants of immigrants from Asturias, Spain. On July 24, 1974, it was added to the US National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History and Culture</h2><br>
<p>The Centro Asturiano de Tampa (Centro) is a social club for immigrants and the descendants of immigrants from Asturias, Spain. Historically, a hospital, cemetery and health insurance all came with membership, and the purpose of the club was to take care of members from before birth until after they died. Membership declined following the close of the hospital in 1990. The hospital was renovated in 2005 to provide affordable housing for seniors. All that remains of the old Centro is the social aspect and the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The Centro is one of many Centros Asturianos that span Spain, the US, and the world.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1880s most of the traffic from Spain to the Americas consisted of bachelors going to Havana, Cuba, looking for work. Those men who were married often immigrated alone, only to send for their families once well established in their new homeland. In Havana, there were many organizations, representing various regions of Spain, whose sole mission was to provide health assistance and “a little taste of home” for their members. The Centro Asturiano de La Habana was founded on May 2, 1886, to provide medical assistance, social activities, education, and recreational opportunities.</p><br>
<p>The cigar industry soon established many factories in Tampa that brought a wave of new immigrants from Spain, but especially from Cuba. At the time, US immigration law restricted immigration from Europe, but not from Cuba. Antonio Gonzales Prado, the first president of the Havana club, traveled to Tampa at the end of the century and was appointed chair of a committee whose purpose was to rectify the problem of no health care for the cigar workers. A social club already established in Tampa, El Centro Español de Tampa, made a brief but ultimately unsuccessful attempt at creating a health care system. Approval from the parent club in Havana for the new branch was crucial. Cigar manufacturers, local doctors and pharmacists had formed the Latin Medical Association to prevent the new club&#39;s creation. The name of the club was official changed to The Centro Asturiano de Tampa, Inc. in 1968.</p><br>
<p>La Delegation De Centro Asturiano De La Havana en Tampa received a charter in 1907, but did not own the building or the hospital. The owner was El Centro Asturiano de la Havana, A corporation under the Laws of the Republic of Cuba.</p><br>
<h2>The Hospital</h2><br>
<p>At a meeting on March 24, 1902, Dr. G.H. Altree volunteered to be medical director for the new club. He offered the use of his clinic and sanitarium to Centro members in need of medical attention. By 1903, the society had grown so large that hotel space was leased to keep up with the growing medical needs until the first Covadonga Sanitarium was opened in 1905; it boasted 54 beds. In 1927, a Second Covadonga Hospital was opened. Keeping with the strongly Catholic membership of the club, both buildings were named after the Virgin of Covadonga, an appearance of the Virgin Mary associated with the Iberian Reconquista.</p><br>
<p>In 1956, the Centro Asturiano Hospital, Inc. was chartered and all facilities transferred to the new corporation. This was done so the hospital could qualify for federal funds and grants from private corporations.</p><br>
<h2>Cemeteries</h2><br>
<p>Two cemeteries were established for members of the Centro Asturiano and their families. The "old" Centro Asturiano Cemetery was established in 1904 after the cemetery land was donated for the club&#39;s use by the city of Tampa. The club had inquired about the possibility of buying the land but it remains owned and maintained by the city. It is located in the Ybor City neighborhood at 2504 E 21st Avenue (not in Tampa Heights, as was previously reported). Among the 601 interred at the Old Centro Asturiano Cemetery is club founder Antonio Gonzales Prado, who was buried there in 1904.</p><br>
<p>In 1942 the much larger Centro Asturiano Memorial Park was established. It is located along Tampas eastern border, just outside city limits and immediately north of the Grant Park neighborhood at 5400 East Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Here, over 2,300 deceased are buried or laid to rest in the mausoleum, which was added in 1970 and subsequently enlarged in 1998. Among them is USA Marine Corps First Lieutenant Baldomero López, who gave his own life to save fellow soldiers during the Korean War, for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor. Lópezs valor is remembered with several monuments, including a state nursing home, a military resupply ship, and a nearby Seffner school which are named in his honor, as well as an engraved memorial erected by the Centro Asturiano near the entrance to the Memorial Park Cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The "old" Centro Asturiano Cemetery is located at 3698 N. Ola Avenue which is located within the Woodlawn Cemetery on the eastern side and it is maintained by the City of Tampa Parks Department. This is at the corner of Ola and Indiana Avenues in the north Tampa Heights neighborhood and it is still there today but no new burials are allowed. Please note that the address of 2504 E 21st Avenue is the "old" Centro Español Cemetery and not the "old" Centro Asturiano Cemetery. They both served Spanish immigrants along with the Centro Asturiano Memorial Park of today located at 5400 E Martin Luther King Blvd, Tampa.</p><br>
<h2>Now</h2><br>
<p>Membership declined following the close of the hospital in 1990. The main focus of the club has shifted from medical care, its original purpose, to preserving the history of the club and its members and to a more social function.</p><br>
<p>The current building, which has been in use since 1914, originally boasted a recreational floor, a floor largely devoted to study, and a party floor. The first floor hosted a gymnasium ( which is now closed but used for storage), a cantina for card, chess, and domino games, a billiard room with five tables ( which is now the Covadonga Room. It has its own bar and is a rental option), and a three lane bowling alley that has been converted into a storage area. The second floor holds offices for the club administrators, an extensive library, several reading and educational rooms, a smoking room which is also used during the day for dominoes and card games, ladies parlor and dressing lounge and the auditorium and stage. The third floor houses the balcony of the theatre and a large ballroom. The ballroom was and still is, to a lesser extent, used for public dances that were a main social interaction between young club members or their children. Many of the current club members met their spouses at a dance at the Centro. The ballroom also houses private parties such as birthdays, wedding receptions, anniversaries, and many other celebrations. When the building was opened in 1914, the Tampa Daily Times ran an article on the architecture and features of the new club headquarters: “It is a monument to the memory of those who have devoted their best endeavors to the welfare of the institution, and a palace to those who stand faithful to its noble ideals” (May 16, 1914).</p><br>
<h2>The Centro Asturiano de Tampa Collection in USF Libraries Special Collections</h2><br>
<p>University of South Florida Libraries Special Collections has a Centro Asturiano de Tampa Collection in its holdings, consisting of a large variety of primary source materials, including club and hospital records, meeting minutes, financial records, photographs, playbills, sheet music, zarzuelas, memoria, cemetery records, and ephemera. Ephemera includes trophies, flags, printing plates, and other artifacts related to the club. USF Libraries has digitized a collection of membership record portrait snapshots, totaling more than 5,000 images, available to view on the USF Libraries Digital Collections website.</p><br>
