<p>The Cleveland Street United States Post Office, or simply Cleveland Street Post Office, is a historic site in Clearwater, Florida. It is located at 650 Cleveland Street. It was dedicated on October 9, 1933. It was built by the Walt and Sinclair construction firm in a Mediterranean-Revival architecture style. On August 7, 1980, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Donald Roebling Estate, also known as Spottiswoode and Spotswood, is a historic residential estate in Clearwater, within Pinellas County on the West coast of Florida.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was the home of inventor, engineer, industrial designer, and philanthropist Donald Roebling (1908–1959). It is located on the channel at 700 Spottiswoode Lane in Clearwater. Roebling bought and named the parcel of land Spottiswoode, in honor of his fiancée, Florence Spotswood Parker.</p><br>
<p>Donald Roebling was the great-grandson of John Augustus Roebling who designed the Brooklyn Bridge, and grandson of Washington Roebling who was in charge of the bridge&#39;s construction.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were designed in the Tudor Revival style by architects Roy W. Wakeling and John Phillipoff, and the residence was completed in 1929. The estate includes the mansion, a boathouse on the Intracoastal Waterway, an engineering−inventions machine shop, and other outbuildings.</p><br>
<h3>Harbor Oaks</h3><br>
<p>The estate was built in the Harbor Oaks Residential District, Clearwater&#39;s first planned residential development, that was opened in 1914 by Dean Alvord, a major developer from New York. The development offered then-innovative features such as paved streets, curbs, and sidewalks, underground utility and sewer systems, and tree lined parkways. Other original Harbor Oaks residents included author Rex Beach, Brooklyn Dodgers owner Charles Ebbett, industrialist Robert Ingersoll, and members of the Studebaker, Proctor, and Gamble families.</p><br>
<h3>Landmark</h3><br>
<p>On December 19, 1979, the Donald Roebling Estate was added to the US National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The estate is also protected within the Harbor Oaks Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The St. Petersburg Lawn Bowling Club is a historic site in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is located at 536 4th Avenue, North. On July 9, 1980, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. It is the oldest formally organized lawn bowling club in Florida and tenth in the nation. It includes members from USA, Canada, Ireland, England, Scotland, Australia, German heritage.</p><br>
<p>Club season runs November to April. Free lessons Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 9 am followed by a game until 12:00.</p><br>
<p>The St. Petersburg Womans Club is a historic womans club in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is located at 40 Snell Isle Boulevard. On July 15, 1994, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The St. Petersburg Womans Club began on February 7, 1913, by Mrs. Benjamin A. Greene who moved from Evanston, Illinois where she served as the president of her Federated Womans Club. Mrs. Greene was the president and the club met every Thursday afternoon at 3pm at the First Baptist Church. The club joined the Florida Federation of Women&#39;s Clubs in 1913.</p><br>
<p>In 1921, Mrs. Esterly became the Honorary President for life. The club motto was “Each for all and all for humanity. We cannot all serve alike but we can all serve willingly and well.” A building fund was first established in 1922 and membership grew to 400 by January 1923. On November 26, 1923, the St. Petersburg Womans Club officially became a member of the General Federation of Womens Clubs.</p><br>
<p>The clubhouse dedication took place in November 1929 and in April 1932 twelve young women started the Junior Womans Club as an auxiliary of the Senior Womans Club.</p><br>
<p>The Bee Ridge Womans Club is a historic womans club in Sarasota, Florida, United States. The club was founded in 1915 as the Get-Together-Club and took its name as Bee Ridge Woman&#39;s club in 1917. In 1922 construction began on a clubhouse and the building was completed in 1923. It is located at 4919 Andrew Avenue. On February 10, 1995, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The City Waterworks is a historic site in Sarasota, Florida. It is located at 1005 North Orange Avenue. On April 23, 1984, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Sarasota Water Works building is a two-story red brick Mediterranean Revival building built in 1926. The western end of the building served as a pumping station, and the eastern end as an office for the citys Water Works. The buildings architecture was by Bohmer-Reinhart & Company.</p><br>
<p>By the early 1970s, the building was abandoned. In 2002, a private buyer bought the building from the city and restored it, creating an office space. In February 2018, the building was purchased by Robin Jennings and Rachel McAree for $1.3 million and repurposed into a business and social club.</p><br>
<p>The Crisp Building is a historic office building at 1970 Main St. in Sarasota, Florida. The T. H. Crisp Company, a developer led by Thomas H. Crisp, constructed the building in 1926. The Crisp Company built many of Sarasotas homes and residential developments in the 1920s and 1930s. The building has also served as a meeting hall for Sarasotas chapter of the Loyal Order of Moose. The building was designed in the Mediterranean Revival style and is one of the best-preserved examples of the style in downtown Sarasota.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by Clas & Shepherd and was built by contractors Adair & Sentor.</p><br>
<p>Its original windows were replaced by aluminum ones in 1990. Upper floor interiors were modified in the 1970s; the first floor was renovated during 1990-98. On April 21, 2000, the building was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Edson Keith Estate  is a historic site in Sarasota, Florida. It is located at 5500 South Tamiami Trail. The home&#39;s construction was finalized in 1916. On March 14, 1991, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Precursors</h3><br>
<p>William Joel Drumright would buy 40 acres along Phillippi Creek from the Florida Land and Improvement Company owned by Hamilton Disston at a price of $50 in 1883. Eight years later he would get an extra 78 acres by homesteading it. He would be politically active serving on Manatee Countys Democratic Executive Committee by turn of the 20th century. Later on he would be the Socialist Partys candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court in 1904. Drumright would end up selling his land to George H. and C. Woodburn Matheny in 1910 who would plat a subdivision named Phillippi Park the next year.</p><br>
<h3>Estate</h3><br>
<p>Edison Keith Jr. would buy 8 subdivision lots in the Phillippi Park subdivision in 1915 for $7,000 with constructing starting on the residence during the summer of 1916. Original buildings that remain from the estate are the home for servants, a garden shed and a garage. Other buildings that were once on the property included a water tower, home for a chauffeur and a variety of sheds for farming related activities. Keith would die in 1939 and his wife would sell the land to Mae Hansen Prodie, a doll clothing designer from Chicago. Prodie&#39;s husband would operate the property as a luxury inn during the 1950s. Prodie would retire in the 1960s and reside in the home and when she died in 1986, Sarasota County would buy the land to be used as a park through a bond referendum.</p><br>
<p>The El Vernona Apartments-Broadway Apartments  is a historic site in Sarasota, Florida. It is located at 1133 Fourth Street. On March 22, 1984, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>This three-story, L-shaped plan, stucco and cast stone Mediterranean Revival building was designed by Dwight James Baum as the Broadway or El Vernona Apartments, named for Vernona Hill Freeman Burns, the wife of Owen Burns, the developer, later being known as the El Vernona Apartments-Broadway Apartments. Today, the building is commonly known as the Belle Haven. The reinforced concrete and hollow-tile construction complex was built by Ricketts and Haworth, owned by the Burns Realty Company and opened for occupancy in March 1926. The construction permit was issued for the complex by the end of October 1925 and construction materials were received by the contracting firm by December of the same year. By March 1926, the fifty-five-room complex of twenty furnished apartments was ready for occupancy and the total cost of the complex was $250,000.</p><br>
<p>The site of the apartment complex overlooking Sarasota Bay, marked the northern gateway of the Broadway Development that included the El Vernona Hotel (later known as John Ringling Towers), the Burns Realty complex, and the new headquarters of the Sarasota Times newspaper. The Broadway development was spearheaded by Owen Burns, who commissioned the architect Dwight James Baum to design the hotel, offices, and apartment for his development. The area was well-planned and unified by the selection of the Mediterranean Revival Style for all new buildings. In addition to the Broadway buildings, the architect Dwight James Baum designed the Ca dZan residence for John Ringling that also was built by Burns, as well as the Sarasota County Courthouse that was donated to the county by Edith and Charles Ringling.</p><br>
<p>The Broadway or El Vernona Apartments are significant for architectural design and associations with the nationally renowned architect Dwight James Baum and the locally significant developer, Owen Burns. The Broadway Apartment is the most architecturally-intact Baum-designed building in Sarasota.</p><br>
<h2>Dwight James Baum</h2><br>
<p>The architect of record, Dwight James Baum, a prominent New York architect who was graduated from the University of Syracuse with a degree in architecture in 1909, also designed Ca dZan for John Ringling, the Sarasota County Courthouse, and various residential buildings for other Owen Burns development sites. Following the collapse of the real estate market in Sarasota, Baum worked as a consultant for the "Good Housekeeping" magazine.</p><br>
<p>The El Vernona Apartments (Belle Haven Apartments) were locally designated by the city of Sarasota in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Worth&#39;s Block, also known as the Gator Club, is a historic building in Sarasota, Florida. It is located at 1490 Main Street. It was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story 25 ft by 100 ft masonry commercial building built in 1912 and modified at different times, including in 1928. Its ground floor was designed for commercial purposes and its second floor was for a residence. As of 1998 its front (north) facade had been restored to its 1912 appearance, with a storefront plus, on the second story, "two sets of paired windows set in segmental arch brick surrounds."</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1903, William Worth moved to Sarasota from Englewood, Florida and purchased a piece of land on the intersection of Lemon Street and Main Street. William Worth was an early member of the Sarasota community, serving as its first tax collector and the first person to run for the office of mayor, but lost to A. B. Edwards in a 108–63 vote. In 1912, Worths son William David Worth bought his fathers business mercantile business and hired his uncle Enoch E. Worth to help him.</p><br>
<p>The Sarasota Herald Building is a historic structure located at 539 South Orange Avenue in Sarasota, Florida. The building served as the headquarters for Sarasota Herald-Tribune from 1925 to 1969.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The structure was built by Owen Burns. On March 22, 1984, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. In 1969, the Sarasota Woman&#39;s Exchange moved in after purchasing and renovating the building. More renovations were carried out in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Sarasota Times Building is a historic site in Sarasota, Florida. It is located at 1214–1216 1st Street. On March 22, 1984, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. The three-story asymmetrically-massed, stucco and cast stone façade, Mediterranean Revival structure was designed by architect Dwight James Baum. It is significant to Sarasota&#39;s heritage for its role as a newspaper established in 1899, and also for its architectural merits.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The three-story Mediterranean Revival Style structure located at 1214, 1216, and 1218 First Street was designed in 1925 by the architect Dwight James Baum as the headquarters of the Sarasota Times newspaper. By November 1925 the construction firm of Ricketts and Haworth had started work on the foundations of the Sarasota Times Building but ceased work due to the revision of the original plans for the building. The Times Building was designed in the Mediterranean Revival Style which was in keeping with the other Baum designed projects under construction or planned for the Broadway area including the Burns Realty Company, the El Vernona Hotel (Later called John Ringling Towers, now demolished) and the El Vernona Apartment (Currently called Belle Haven Apartments). The Times Building also abutted the residence of the editor and owner of the paper, L.D. Reagin, whose house was located on North Palm Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The Sarasota Times newspaper, which was purchased by Mr. Reagin in March 1924, was a significant communications force in the development of Sarasota, having been founded in 1899. Formerly located at 241 Main Street, the new site of the plant and offices was indicative of the shift in the commercial development away from lower Main Street.</p><br>
<p>The architect of record, Dwight James Baum, was responsible for many of the most significant buildings constructed in Sarasota in the 1920s including John Ringlings palatial home, the Ca daZan, the Sarasota County Courthouse, and the four Mediterranean Revival Style buildings in the Broadway area. Having traveled in Southern California, Mr. Baum had studied the examples of the Mission Revival Style and the Spanish Colonial Revival Style in California. It was the product of a detailed study of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture made by Bertram Grovesnor Goodhue in Mexico.</p><br>
<p>In 1915, at the Panama–California Exposition in San Diego, Goodhue and Carleton Winslow Sr. designed a complex of buildings that featured the rich architectural variety found in colonial Latin America. Encouraged by the publicity afforded the exposition, other architects began to also look to Spain where they found other interesting building traditions. Many of the California elements Baum studied influenced his designs for Sarasota buildings.</p><br>
<p>In Florida, the Spanish eclectic style was among the most dominant building styles during the 1920s continued to be built into the 1930s. It was adapted for a variety of building types ranging from grandiose tourist hotels to two-room residences. It was so popular that many commercial and residential buildings were renovated in the 1920s to reflect the style. Identifying features of the style include flat (sometimes hip) roofs. Usually with some form of parapet; ceramic tile roof surfacing; stuccoed facades; flat roof entrance porches, commonly with arched openings supported by square columns; casement and double-hung sash windows; and ceramic tile decorations.</p><br>
<p>The design of the Times Building is one of Mr. Baum&#39;s most successful; the variety of architectural elements, including the use of three different door types and enframements on the ground floor elevation of the Times Building is particularly effective on a relatively small-scaled building. Following the crash of the land prices and the onset of the Depression, the Sarasota Times newspaper went into receivership. The Times Building was subsequently used as the office of the "Tree-Ripe Citrus Products, Inc. which was owned and operated by Mr. Owen Burns.</p><br>
<p>BFM Enterprises Inc., a Sarasota company managed by Donald E. Murphy, had owned the 10,584- square-foot building since April 2004. Ceviche Tapas Bar, part of a Florida chain, opened in early 2008 with a Spanish-themed menu that features small plates, seafood, paella and cazuela. While on First Street, Ceviche also hosted numerous civic events, including wrap parties for the Sarasota Film Festival. Ceviche relocates a few years later and the Sarasota Times Building has been back on the market since 2012.</p><br>
<p>In 2014, Ataraxia LLC, a Nokomis company managed by Sharon Carole, purchased the historic downtown building. Carole began renovations for the new restaurant that opened in 2019 and graced Sarasota with its presence: "Sage," which aims to bring a global culinary experience to the artsy town of Sarasota using the highest quality and freshest ingredients as possible. Dishes are made to be as if you are actually dining in that specific country of origin.</p><br>
<p>Chef Chistopher Covelli, Chef at Sage, is a graduate of the French Culinary Institute in New York City where he was trained by world-renowned chefs including Andre Soltner, Jacques Pepin and Alain Saihac. His background, training and living experiences have enabled him to speak five languages and specialize in Classic French, Italian and Spanish cuisine as well as American Haute Cuisine.</p><br>
<p>The Sarasota Times Building was locally designated by the City of Sarasota in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Sarasota Womans Club  is a historic womans club in Sarasota, Florida. It is located at 1241 North Palm Avenue. It was founded in 1913 and on January 18, 1985, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. The clubhouse is now home to the Keating Theater, the mainstage of Florida Studio Theatre.</p><br>
<h2>Building Origins</h2><br>
<p>The Sarasota Woman’s Club started as a meeting of 63 charter members on April 14, 1913. In 1914 Sarasota was incorporated as a city and after two years of club activities, the cornerstone was laid at their new clubhouse at the corner of Cocoanut and Palm on January 1, 1915. As part of the ground-breaking celebrations, the first club president, Alice Guenther, gave a short speech. That year, on its two-year anniversary, the club had 200 members, owned a lot, and had moved into their newly built $4,500 clubhouse. Created by architect H.N. Hall and contractor George Lysat, the building is Tudor Revival.</p><br>
<p>Part of the clubhouse was dedicated to housing Sarasota’s library. The Woman’s Club kept it in operation with fundraisers until 1940 when it became public.</p><br>
<p>After 38 years of being open, the clubhouse was rededicated in 1953 after being remodeled and redecorated by Naomi Widrig, a club member. The occasion was marked by a musical number and remarks by A.B. Edwards, who had been the mayor when the club was first opened, and Mrs. Joseph Halton, the first Club vice president.</p><br>
<p>Mrs. Halton, wife of a well-respected local doctor,</p><br>
<p>“Dr. Joseph Halton, M.D.” Sarasota History Biographies. Accessed on 9/18/07. was among the first to act in the space that is now the main stage of the Florida Studio Theatre in a play called “Sunbonnets.” “Sunbonnets” was performed first at the clubhouse (the general public could get in for $0.25 and members’ admission was free) and then transferred to the Hover Arcade Theatre for a repeat performance.</p><br>
<p>In 1977, the same year it became the home of the Florida Studio Theatre, the clubhouse received Historical Site status with the presentation of a Historical Marker.</p><br>
<h2>Response to the Woman’s Club</h2><br>
<p>In response to the newly founded Woman’s Club, the Sarasota Sun conducted a poll asking a few “prominent citizens” their opinion of the new organization. Then-Mayor Higel praised the Woman’s Club saying, “Best move ever made here. More attention given to their orders issued than to those of any other body.” Other government officials reacted differently, with Marshall Hodge reported to have said, “The Woman’s Club is all right; but I have troubles of my own,” with City Clerk Houle adding, “It’s a terror to the men.”</p><br>
<p>In the same Sarasota Sun article, the husband of president of the club Mrs. Alice Gunther said, “A great institution for the town, but hard on the individual in my case, as I expect to be buttonless, sockless and half-fed for the next year.” In a similar vein, Sarasota resident Walter P. Bryan offered his opinion, “I have been married so recently I dare not say what I think.”</p><br>
<p>On the whole, the foundation of the Woman’s Club was seen as a good thing for the community. Sarasota resident J.W. Madison admired the women of the club, saying of the club’s formation, “Good thing! The Woman’s Club always takes the advance position in civics and so forth.” J.J. Merrill added, “Of invaluable assistance to the city, morally and physically.” W.T. Caven observed, “Every city that has been blessed with a woman’s club has been the one to show greater progress in its culture and municipal worth.”</p><br>
<h2>Woman’s Club Activities</h2><br>
<p>The Sarasota Woman’s Club originated as the Town Improvement Society, an organization of women founded in 1903. Their first project was to have sidewalks built along Main Street, where previously there had been sand paths. They continued on to install lanterns at the train station and organize the first community library.</p><br>
<p>The Florida land boom in 1919 and the increasing political awakening of women in Florida from 1890 to 1920 during the Progressive Era paved the way for women to become more socially active. The Woman’s Club succeeded the Town Improvement Society and in many areas picked up where they left off. Their Library Committee, Cemetery Committee, Juvenile Dancing Class, Education Committee, music committees and welfare committees ensured that within four years of the founding of the Sarasota Woman’s Club, they became a social center. In 1913 the Woman’s Club took over care of the library and started improvements on Rosemary Cemetery, which had fallen into disrepair. They also created a community work day “during which businesses were closed by order of the mayor and more than 200 men with teams and wagons created a park along the bay front between Main Street and the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (now Ringling Boulevard).” The following year, they initiated a census and birth registration and planted 250 cocoanut trees along the shore. In 1915, ensconced in their new clubhouse, the Woman’s Club investigated better ways for parents to save on sending their children to school. They also sold Tuberculosis seals. Matters of health were big that year, with a speaker at the club addressing its members on the subject of health reform:</p><br>
<p>Vital statistics and the prevalence of disease is awakening all Club women to the need of a reform on the lines of health purity, and very deeply did this lady feel on the subject that a broader education should be given the young people on the question of health and a one standard of morality maintained.</p><br>
<p>1917 and 1918 saw a continued effort on behalf of school-age children. Club members founded the area PTA, campaigned for compulsory school attendance, and organized the Red Cross Auxiliary and training classes for elementary school students.</p><br>
<p>In 1917, sixty-one members of the Woman’s Club registered in the lobby of the First National Bank to help the war effort in whatever capacity they could. Registration included writing down any and all skills to be recorded and put on file. A call for other women to participate in this wartime registration appeared in the Saratimes. “Well,” said one resident female worker in the article (which was entitled “Attention Women! Are You a Patriot or a Slacker?”), “nobody plays a band for you when you go out to swat flies. Much of the work will be inglorious—but grimly necessary. A right to share in the glorious results accomplished should be compensation enough.”</p><br>
<p>During the 1920/1921 season Woman’s Club members raised money for a local hospital, registered to vote, and joined the FFWC (Florida Federation of Women’s Clubs) and GFWC (General Federation of Women&#39;s Clubs). The FFWC was most successful in their conservation projects, in particular their efforts to halt deforestation in the Everglades. The club continued in this vein of philanthropic work, founding the Helen R. Payne Day Care Nursery in 1938 as a service for the children of migrant workers and even adopting a needy child in France, for whom they then raised money and sent care packages.</p><br>
<p>Today, the Woman’s Club supports the following state and national projects: Canine Companions for Independence, Special Olympics, R.O.C.K. Camp and Bogg Creek Camp, HOBY, Hacienda Girls Ranch, and the Everglades National Park, initially established by the FFWC as Royal Palm Park.</p><br>
<p>Local philanthropies the club currently assists include: the Sarasota County Library, a scholarship fund for deserving students, continued work with the Helen R. Payne Day Care Nursery, Oak Park School, The Pines of Sarasota, the American Cancer Society, Genesis Dental Clinic, and the Sarasota Women’s Legal Fund.</p><br>
<p>The Woman’s Club of Sarasota currently supports the following organizations with donations: Safe Place Rape Crisis Center, All Faiths Food Bank, Resurrection House, Sarasota County Child Health Center, and Bay Pines Veterans Hospital.</p><br>
<h2>Seasons and Functions</h2><br>
<p>The Woman’s Club divided their calendar years into themed seasons. Each year, the club announced the season to come in a statement issued by the planning committee.</p><br>
<p>In 1914 the Woman’s Club sponsored a mock court trial. In 1921 they held a round table discussion entitled “The Censorship of the Movies.” In 1924 Princess Cantacuzene addressed club members and visitors in a speech responding to Admiral Bradley A. Fiske’s statement that “of all existing matters, the one women understood the least, is war.” She used the club as a positive example of effective social change by women. The princess concluded that the admiral’s instruction that women “butt out” is misguided.</p><br>
<p>The club would frequently host themed evenings, often costume shows. In 1916, a Mother Goose themed party raised the most funds of the year at $378.28. The 1919 Colonial Ball found between fifty and sixty couples—club members and their guests—taking part in the ball’s Grand March and taking home Colonial hats as party favors. A hat show presented in 1950 was followed by a skit entitled “The Lizzie Dash-It Hat Shoppe” written by club member Mrs. Charles Wise. At evenings such as that, the club song would be sung as part of the festivities.</p><br>
<p>The 1959/1960 season’s themes were “Investment in Understanding” and “Through wisdom is an (sic) house builded (sic) and by understanding is it established.” The series opened on November 2, 1959 with a lecture by Dr. Alfred P. Haake, a businessman, titled “America Unlimited.” The season continued with book reviews, a demonstration by cartoonist Six Hix of Chicago, a performance of the Christmas play The Gift Supreme, talks, lectures, an art history presentation, and a seminar on business tips for women.</p><br>
<p>All money raised that was not put back into the club for day-to-day expenses was given back to the town, or to state work, or other philanthropies.</p><br>
<h2>Mantras and Publicity</h2><br>
<p>To keep the public up to date on goings-on at the club, the Woman’s Club published weekly notes in The Sarasota Times, which was founded in 1899 as Sarasota’s first newspaper.</p><br>
<p>The Sarasota Woman’s Club functioned under several codes of conduct. They published their constitution and by-laws in The Sarasota Times just after their founding in 1913. In addition to these rules, the club espoused a mantra called the “Brighten Up Rules”:</p><br>
<p>That the Woman’s Club believes in.</p><br>
<p>To Brighten Up myself—to be optimistic, cheerful and good…</p><br>
<p>To Brighten Up my home and spread the Brighten Up spirit among my neighbors.</p><br>
<p>To Brighten Up my business and take pleasure as well as profit from it.</p><br>
<p>To Brighten Up my town and promote its social, Industrial and commercial progress.</p><br>
<p>To promote the love of Nature sunshine and fresh air.</p><br>
<p>To adopt Brighten Up as my slogan.</p><br>
<p>In addition, the Woman’s Club took as inspiration a poem originally published in the Southern Woman’s Magazine entitled “What is a Woman’s Club?”:</p><br>
<p>What is a woman’s club? A meeting ground,</p><br>
<p>For those whose purpose, great and broad and strong,</p><br>
<p>Whose aim is like the star: who ever long</p><br>
<p>To make the patient, hastening world resound</p><br>
<p>With sweeter music, freer tones.</p><br>
<p>A place where kindly, lifting words are said.</p><br>
<p>And kindlier deeds are done: where hearts are fed.</p><br>
<p>Where wealth of brain for poverty atones:</p><br>
<p>Where hand grasps hand: and soul finds touch with soul:</p><br>
<p>Where victors in the race for fame and power</p><br>
<p>Look back in their triumphant hour</p><br>
<p>To beckon others to the shining goal,</p><br>
<p>This is a woman’s club—a heaven fair,</p><br>
<p>Where toilers drop—an hour—their load of care.</p><br>
<h2>The Club Today</h2><br>
<p>Today, the Sarasota Woman’s Club continues to host seasonal events to benefit a variety of local and national charities. In addition to the original Sarasota club body, the Golden City Woman’s Club of Sarasota was founded in 1962 to serve Sarasota County.</p><br>
<p>(FST) now operates out of the old clubhouse at 1241 North Palm Avenue, as well as adjacent buildings. In 1976, FST founder Jon Spelman saw a potential performance space in the clubhouse, which, at that time, was vacant and in need of serious repair. Patron of the arts Marian McKenna, whose fond memories of the clubhouse included receiving her first kiss on the premises, purchased the old building from Boomhauer Realty and sold it to FST at a greatly reduced price. Under the ownership of FST, the clubhouse has undergone extensive renovation and beautification, while still maintaining the exterior look and structure of the original building.</p><br>
<p>Over the past 40 years, FST has established itself as a major force in American Theatre. Today, the Sarasota Women’s Club building features the fully operational 173-seat Keating Theatre, one of FST&#39;s two Mainstage performance spaces. FST’s Keating Theatre is the cornerstone of FST’s village of 5 theatres, serving more than 230,000 live attendees each year.</p><br>
<p>The Congress Building, or simply the Congress Building, is a historic skyscraper in Downtown Miami, Florida, United States. It is located at the address of 111 Northeast 2nd Avenue. The Congress Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 14, 1985, and is locally identified a historic site in the Downtown Miami Development of Regional Impact . The Congress Building was formerly office space until 1999, when it was restored and converted to apartments. At street level, the building contains retail space which is leased to a number of stores and services including a financial establishment, The Loft condo sales center, beauty salon and café. Originally the building was five stories; the additional 16 were added on later.</p><br>
<p>The Walgreen Drug Store  is a historic site in Miami, Florida. It is found at 200 East Flagler Street.</p><br>
<p>Constructed in 1936, the Streamline Moderne structure was designed by Zimmerman, Saxe, and MacBride Architects with E. A. Ehmann as Associates Architect.</p><br>
<p>On November 17, 1988, the building was added to the Miami Register of Historic Places and subsequently, on January 4, 1989, it was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places on January 4, 1989.</p><br>
<p>After Walgreens moved out, La Epoca department store occupied the space from 2005 to 2016.</p><br>
<p>In June 2023, the buildings third tenant, Julia & Henrys, opened as a food hall. Named in honor of and, the establishment provides dining experiences from many chefs and over 30 restaurants, shops, bars and unique local eateries.</p><br>
<p>The Meyer–Kiser Building  is a historic USA building in Miami, Florida. It was built in 1925, the same year the Dade County Courthouse began construction. It is located at 139 NE 1st street. On January 4, 1999, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. The building was once one of the tallest in Miami, and Dade County, completed the same year as the Freedom Tower, but was badly damaged during the 1926 Miami hurricane, and it was reduced from 17 to 7 stories. In 2015, new owners announced a plan to restore the building close to its original design. It didn&#39;t happen as of 2023.</p><br>
<p>The Miami Women&#39;s Club is a historic site in Miami, Florida. It is located at 1737 North Bayshore Drive. On December 27, 1974, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The organization has faced problems in restoring its historic headquarters. Later in the 2010s and in 2023, plans turned to making it a themed restaurant owing to the historical ambiance.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Miami Women&#39;s Club organizes and participates in a variety of civic and community service activities in the Miami area. It also played a lead role in establishing public libraries in Miami.</p><br>
<p>The club formed in 1900 when a group of women began meeting weekly to socialize and read. They drew up an official constitution in September of that year, as the Married Ladies’ Afternoon Club. In 1902, club members voted to emphasize the literary nature of the club and began to circulate books for $1.50 per year to non-members.</p><br>
<p>The club grew to 80 members by 1903, when it joined the State Federation of Womans Clubs. In 1906, the club changed its name to the Miami Womans Club. Henry Flagler and the Model Land Company donated land at the corner of Royal Palm Park for a club building in 1912, with the stipulation that the building must also be used as a public library and free reading room. Club membership continued to grow, and by 1916, the Miami Womans Club was the largest womans club in the state.</p><br>
<p>In 1923, the Miami Womans Club opened a childrens library, and sold the building at Royal Palm Park. The club purchased a site for its new facilities at Bay Shore Drive and NE 17th Terrace, and selected August Geiger as the architect for the building, which opened in 1926. The building was named the Flagler Memorial Library and Woman&#39;s Club, and is still used by the club.</p><br>
<p>In 1924, the City of Miami began paying the operating expenses for the library, and in 1942, it took over management of the Flagler Library and other area branch libraries. The club&#39;s Library Committee continued to serve in an advisory capacity.</p><br>
<p>With a mission of supporting education and community stewardship, the Miami Woman&#39;s Club participates in numerous civic and community service activities. To facilitate its work, the club includes the following departments and committees: Arts Department, Conservation Department, Education Department, Home Life Department, International Affairs Department, Public Affairs Department, Budget Committee, Hospitality Committee, House Committee, Telephone Committee, Library Committee, Program Committee, Revisions Committee, Special Improvement Committee, Advisory Board, Cashier, Trustees, and Yearbook.</p><br>
<h2>Works or publications</h2><br>
<p>The J & S Building  is a historic site in Miami, Florida. It is located at 221-233 Northwest 9th Street. The building was constructed in 1925.</p><br>
<p>On January 4, 1989, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. However, the building was later demolished.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building&#39;s owner was cited in 1976 for structural safety issues following the collapse of the Miami DEA building.</p><br>
<p>The S & S Sandwich Shop  is a historic site in Miami, Florida. It is located at 1757 Northeast 2nd Avenue. On January 4, 1989, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The small-scale, Art Deco building was constructed in 1938 and includes a facade of pigmented structural glass and aluminum arranged in horizontal and vertical bands of beige, white, and red.</p><br>
<p>In 2017, the restaurant was evicted from the building, and the S & S Diner resumed at a nearby location.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Miami, Florida is the cathedral church of the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida. It is located at North Bayshore Drive a short distance north of the Venetian Causeway, near the Carnival Center in Miami . On October 10, 1980, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>National Register listing</h2><br>
<p>Trinity Episcopal Cathedral</p><br>
<p>(added 1980 - Building - #80000945)</p><br>
<p>464 NE 16th St., Miami</p><br>
<p>Historic Significance: Architecture/Engineering</p><br>
<p>Architect, builder, or engineer: Mundy, Harold Hastings</p><br>
<p>Architectural Style: Romanesque</p><br>
<p>Area of Significance: Architecture</p><br>
<p>Period of Significance: 1900-1924</p><br>
<p>Owner: Private</p><br>
<p>Historic Function: Religion</p><br>
<p>Historic Sub-function: Religious Structure</p><br>
<p>Current Function: Religion</p><br>
<p>Current Sub-function: Religious Structure</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Trinity Cathedral is the oldest church in the original city limits of Miami, having been organized by the Rt. Rev. William Crane Gray on June 12, 1896, more than a month before the city was incorporated. In 1904, the Trinity Mission became self-supporting and thus achieved parish status. The wooden church building was replaced in 1912 by an imposing, two-story stone church, similar in design to St. Paul&#39;s Episcopal Church in Key West.</p><br>
<p>In 1923, as the great Miami and Florida real estate boom of the roaring twenties neared its peak, the congregation bought land at the corner of NE Bayshore Drive and 15th Street for the site of a church large enough to seat eleven hundred worshipers. Miami architect Harold Hastings Mundy designed the new church, whose construction was finished in July, 1925. The proportions of the building and its general idea were inspired by the Roman Catholic Church of St. Giles, near Nîmes in southern France. Muncy combined Romanesque, Byzantine, and Italianate elements of architecture to give the building a distinctive Mediterranean appearance. When the boom collapsed in 1927, Trinity Church was saddled with a large mortgage debt, which was not paid until 1946, after almost twenty years of sacrifice and struggle.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the Cathedral contains a profusion of finely wrought mosaics which depict the six days of creation, the hosts of heaven, and the Stations of the Cross. In addition, stained glass windows illustrate events in the life of Jesus with corresponding scenes from the Old Testament, the miracles of Jesus, the Song of the Three Young Men (the Benedictus es), the seven sacraments of the church, and many of the saints and scholars of the British Isles before the Protestant Reformation. The Cathedral interior has a sound reverberation of more than four seconds, a feature which greatly enhances the musical effectiveness of the cathedral&#39;s E. M. Skinner/Æolian Skinner pipe organ of fifty-six ranks. and makes it one of the "warmest" rooms for music.</p><br>
<p>In 1970, the delegates to the first convention of the new Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida voted to make Trinity Church the cathedral for the diocese, the location of the bishops throne, the cathedra. In 1980, the cathedral was judged to be of such architectural and historical significance that it was placed on the U. S. Department of the Interiors Register of National Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Sunday service schedule</h2><br>
<p>8:00 am - Holy Eucharist (Communion), Rite I</p><br>
<p>10:00 am - Holy Eucharist (Communion), Rite II with music from the Cathedral Choir</p><br>
<p>12:15pm - Santa Misa (Holy Eucharist in Spanish)</p><br>
<h2>Weekday service schedule</h2><br>
<p>12:05 pm - Holy Eucharist in All Saints Chapel</p><br>
<p>The Alfred I. DuPont Building is a historic building in Miami, Florida. It is located at 169 East Flagler Street. Started in 1937 and completed in 1939, it is a 17-story rectangular building in the Modern style with Art Deco embellishments. It was the first skyscraper built after the County courthouse and the bust of 1928. Thus it represents Miami&#39;s emergence from the great depression. It replaced the Halcyon Hotel on this site. On January 4, 1989, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Alfred I. DuPont was the owner of the Florida National Bank, the principal tenant of the building. Major tenants in 2023 are Bench jewelers who use a combination of skills to make and repair jewelry. Some of the more common skills that a bench jeweler might employ include antique restoration, silversmithing, goldsmithing, stone setting, engraving, fabrication, wax carving, lost-wax casting, electroplating, forging, & polishing. manufactures & wholesale watches for Rolex & Richard Mille. The other major building in Miami is the Seybold Building for jewelry, diamonds and fine watches.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. James Madison Jackson Office is a historic site in Miami, Florida. It is located at 190 Southeast 12th Terrace. The first resident physician of Miami, Dr. James M. Jackson, had his office and surgery in this building. More recently, it became the offices of the Dade Heritage Trust. On February 24, 1975, the structure was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. The building is located in the center of Brickell, near Downtown Miami. A great nephew, James Madison Barco, is named for Dr. Jackson.</p><br>
<p>1240 Cocoanut Road  is a historic house located at 1240 Cocoanut Road in Boca Raton, Florida. It is locally significant for its association with Maurice Fatio, a master architect with an office in Palm Beach.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The two-story Colonial Revival style house was designed by architect Maurice Fatio. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 17, 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Ada Covered Bridge is a 125 ft span Brown truss covered bridge erected in 1867 in Ada, Michigan, United States. Carrying Bronson Street across the Thornapple River, it is located just south of where the Thornapple enters the Grand River, in turn just south of M-21. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The bridge uses the Brown truss system, consisting of diagonal compression beams and almost vertical tension members (slanting in at the top toward the center of the span), patented by Josiah Brown Jr. of Buffalo, New York, in 1857. A timber bearing Brown&#39;s name was discovered during repair work carried out in 1913.</p><br>
<p>The bridge is 125 ft long, and originally rested on wooden pilings. As is typical for covered bridges, its gabled roof is covered with creosote shingles.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Michigan State Legislature authorised Ada Township to borrow up to $3,000 for building or maintaining bridges in the area. Construction of this bridge, also known as the "Bradfield Bridge" was carried out in 1867 by William Holmes.</p><br>
<p>Prior to construction of the upstream dam, the Thornapple River was prone to flooding. According to a historical marker posted at the bridge, "it is said that farmers used to drive wagons loaded with stones onto the bridge during high water to hold it to the foundation."</p><br>
<p>Repair work was carried out in 1913 to modify the trusses, and replace the timber abutments with reinforced concrete. The bridge was part of an important artery into the village of Ada until 1930, when the main highway was rerouted and a concrete bridge built further down the Thornapple River. At that time the bridge was closed to automobile traffic, reverting to pedestrian use only.</p><br>
<p>In 1941 the Kent County Road Commission and the Works Progress Administration made extensive restorations, re-roofing the bridge with new protective creosote shingles and replacing many of its decayed underlying supports with new beams. The Road Commission purchased a nearby barn to supply wood for replacement of badly deteriorated elements.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was listed with the Michigan State Register on May 9, 1969, and with the National Register on February 16, 1970. It was awarded a Michigan Historical Marker (site L0075) on August 28, 1974. It is one of four existing publicly owned covered bridges in Michigan.</p><br>
<p>In 1979 the roof collapsed due to heavy snow, and the bridge was restored using funds raised by private donations. Shortly after the repairs were finished, the bridge was completely destroyed by fire. The citizens again rallied, this time with the help of the Amway corporation, headquartered in Ada, and rebuilt it once again. The replica bridge, now resting on concrete abutments, is 14 ft wide and 125 ft long.</p><br>
<p>The bridge is now open only to pedestrian traffic and connects the Village of Ada on one side of the Thornapple River with a park on the other side. It is maintained by the Kent County Park system.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>Scotchtown is a plantation located in Hanover County, Virginia, that from 1771 to 1778 was owned and used as a residence by USA Founding Father Patrick Henry, his wife Sarah and their children. He was a revolutionary and elected in 1778 as the first Governor of Virginia. The house is located in Beaverdam, Virginia, 10 mi northwest of Ashland, Virginia on VA 685. The house, at 93 ft by 35 ft, is one of the largest 18th-century homes to survive in the Americas. In its present configuration, it has eight substantial rooms on the first floor surrounding a central passage, with a full attic above and English basement with windows below. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965.</p><br>
<p>The house is owned and managed by Preservation Virginia, which operates a number of other historic properties across the Commonwealth, including the John Marshall House, the Old Cape Henry Lighthouse, Bacon&#39;s Castle, and Historic Jamestowne.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Scotchtown property was given as a land grant to Charles Chiswell, a prominent planter and iron mine owner, in 1717. Chiswell built a small house on the property, probably in the 1720s. It was expanded to its present size around 1760. It was first given the name "Scotch Town" in a 1757 deed of sale. At this time the house also was used as a store that bought and sold local tobacco.</p><br>
<p>Patrick Henry purchased the house in 1771 and lived there with his wife, Sarah Shelton Henry, and their six children. This was his home during his most influential period, including his famous "Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!" speech at St. Johns Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia. It was also his residence when he was elected Governor of Virginia in 1776. His wife Sarah, who suffered from mental illness, died at the site in 1775. He resided at Scotchtown until 1777. That year he married his second wife and in 1778 they relocated, after his election, to the Governors Palace in Williamsburg.</p><br>
<p>The house was purchased by the Wilson Miles Cary family after their original home had been taken over as a small-pox rest camp. They briefly resided there until attempting to sell it in December 1781. The house and land were transferred to Benjamin Forsythe in Hanover Countys 1787 tax records, but Cary is charged once more in 1792. An ad in a 1794 Richmond paper announces, "Scotch-Town Grammar School will be conducted the present year by Peter and Thomas Nelson. Peter Nelson, Rector, St. Martins, Hanover".</p><br>
<p>Beginning in 1801, the property was owned by John M. Sheppard-Taylor. Little is known about the Sheppard-Taylor family, other than the changes they made to the appearance of the house over the generations. Sheppard divided the land between his children, leaving his daughters Lavinia and Sally Taylor the house and a few acres. The house was abandoned after the death of Sally Taylor, until Hanover circuit court Judge Leon M. Bazile ordered the house to be auctioned. The house was sold to Preservation Virginia (formerly known as the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities) in 1958.</p><br>
<p>Scotchtown was long believed to have been the girlhood home of Dolley Madison, wife of president James Madison, who was distantly related to Patrick Henry. But, there is little evidence beyond Madisons own recollections of the house as a child to support this fact. Dolley Madisons recollections may have been memories of visits to the house during her childhood.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>The property was sold at auction in July 1958, when it was purchased by Preservation Virginia for $37,000. Extensive archaeological work has taken place in the decades following. A number of projects have restored the house to its late 18th-century appearance, including rebuilding outbuildings such as the icehouse, kitchen, and law office.</p><br>
<p>Scotchtown was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965 as an unusual 18th-century structure associated with a Founding Father. The property received a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services in 1993 to "reexamine its policies, procedures, and the current condition of its collection and structures," including restructuring its programming. It is currently open for visitors seasonally or by appointment.</p><br>
<p>The House at 116 West Davis Boulevard is a historic home in Tampa, Florida, United States. It is located at 116 West Davis Boulevard. On August 3, 1989, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. Designed by architect Franklin O. Adams, Jr. and built in 1925, it is an example of the Mediterranean Revival style. It was the home of D.P. Davis , the developer of Davis Islands in Tampa and Davis Shores in St. Augustine, and one of the most prominent figures in the Florida Land Boom of the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>The House at 301 Caspian Street is a historic home in Tampa, Florida. It is located at 301 Caspian Street. On August 3, 1989, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. It was designed by Franklin O. Adams. The House has 5 bedrooms and 6 full baths and 3 half-baths. An addition to the house was completed in 2007, adding 1 master bedroom and 1 1/2 Baths to the house. The house was sold to the Harris family on May 18, 2000.</p><br>
<p>The House at 84 Adalia Avenue is a historic home in the Davis Islands neighborhood of Tampa, Florida, United States. It is located at 84 Adalia Avenue. On August 3, 1989, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>In July 2015, the home was sold for $3.3 million. It was reported to be in "horrible disrepair" and was removed from the Register. The new owners will demolish the home and build a new one at the same location.</p><br>
<p>The Abbey  is a historic site in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. It is located at 426 South Beach Street. On April 9, 1987, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Abbey was built in 1875 as the areas second general store, built and run by area businessman and long-standing town clerk and town council member, Laurence Thompson. While the vote to incorporate what was then simply Daytona was held at the areas first general store, the city incorporation papers were signed at the Abbey. It was, at various times, used as a church meeting room, a social hall, and a lending library. Laurence Thompson, who had by then moved into real estate and insurance, sold the property in 1891. In 1904, it was bought by Adelaide Rhodes, who heavily renovated the store into a residence, adding the two additions and peaked roof that give the structure its current look. Her son, Harrison Garfield Rhodes, prolific writer, playwright, travel writer and magazine editor, lived there seasonally from 1918 to 1929. The house was bought in 1955 by Dr. William Doremus, who applied for its place on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>On February 15, 2016, the Abbey Historical Trust held an event celebrating the building&#39;s 140th anniversary, where the City of Daytona Beach declared the day "Abbey Day" and the house was opened to the public from 1-5 PM.</p><br>
<p>The William Glover Negro School or Glover School was a segregated school for Black children in Bealsville near Plant City, Florida. It is located at 5110 Horton Road. On November 29, 2001, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Bealsville community was established by freed slaves. Prior to 1933 school was held in a church. In 1933, with no funds forthcoming from the School District of Hillsborough County for a school to educate Black children, the community raised $900 to build the William Glover Negro School. In 1940, students sold produce to earn enough money to add a library. In 1947, the school board approved drilling a new well to replace one that was contaminated.</p><br>
<p>In 1954, along with Pinecrest High School and Plant City High School, the school operated an on-campus strawberry canning facility that was open to the public.</p><br>
<p>Field Manor, located at 750 Field Manor Drive in Indianola on Merritt Island, Florida was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on September 11, 1997, as the J.R. Field Homestead. It is one of the oldest standing structures on Merritt Island, dating to the 1880s. The property and structure now serve as a historic house museum.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John Moss Field first went to Florida in the 1830s during the Second Seminole War. Later, he moved with his wife Eliza and their family to Merritt island from Macon, Georgia in 1868. Within a year, the family returned to Macon, except for John Robert Field and Samuel Joseph Field, two sons of John and Eliza.</p><br>
<p>The house is roughly 3,500 square feet and is two stories.</p><br>
<h2>Field Manor Foundation</h2><br>
<p>Today, Field Manor is owned by Field Manor Foundation, a private 501(c)3 foundation created by Alma Clyde Field, the last Field family member to reside in the house. The homestead is open to the public as a historic house museum, having undergone two years of preservation and restoration. Everything in the house is original, from the furniture collection to the beadboard walls. The site also serves as an event venue.</p><br>
<p>The Marion S. Whaley Citrus Packing House  was a historic site in Rockledge, Florida. It is located at 2275 USA 1. On April 8, 1993, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The structure was first built in 1928 as the Whaley Packing House, by the Whaley family. It would be renamed the Whaley Victory Groves Packing House after World War 2, which it would keep until it was sold in 1960. That year, it was purchased by the Sullivan family, whose previous packing house in what is now Cocoa Village burned down the previous year. They would rename it to the Sullivan Victory Groves Packing House, and were responsible for expanding the building several times. Business would decline from a variety of factors including the loss of orange groves to NASA land purchases, Citrus canker outbreaks, and abnormally low temperatures, leading to the packing house to close for good in 1991. It was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on April 8, 1993, and would later be sold for $749,000 in 1998. The property would be seized the bank in 2001, and shortly thereafter sold to Redi LLC who failed to find any buyers for the property. Demolition began on July 16, 2020, 2 years after Rockledge, Florida city inspectors declared the building unsafe. It was removed from the National Register in 2021.</p><br>
<p>The Hollywood Garden Club, also known as the Sunday School House of First Church of Christ, Scientist, is a historic building in Hollywood, southeastern Florida. It is located at 2940 Hollywood Boulevard. It was built in 1927 and moved to its current location in 1959. In 1960, the garden club hosted the Seventh Annual Conservation Conference of the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs and in subsequent years engaged in numerous civic activities, such as beautification projects and anti-litter campaigns. On February 23, 1999 the four remaining members of the garden club deeded the building to the City of Hollywood. On February 15, 2005, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The one story vernacular building was built in 1927 and has a low-pitched front gabled roof. The floor plan is rectangular. The approach is a curved concrete walk leading to the four steps to the entry porch. The incised porch spans the front face of the building is and is covered by a shallow simple pediment supported by four Tuscan columns. This shows the influence of Neoclassical architecture. The front elevation has a centered wood double six-panel door on either side are casement eight pane casement windows. The finish is the original medium-texture stucco.</p><br>
<p>The entry to the building featured a full-length vestibule common in religious buildings. The main space in the interior originally the nave is divided from the vestibule by a window wall reaching to less than two feet from the ceiling. The original cherry wood floors remain although currently covered by wall to wall carpet in the main room and laminate flooring in the entry remain in place. In addition to the main room there is a kitchen and a bathroom.</p><br>
<h2>Site</h2><br>
<p>The building is located in a government use district. It is located directly south of the Hollywood Railroad Station across Hollywood Boulevard. The original setting when used by the First Church of Christ, Scientist was in an open lawn. After it was moved the members of the Hollywood Garden Club landscaped the site. there were ten large specimen trees, including a large Yellow tab over 50 years old. The garden club laid a concrete patio where club activities were conducted under the shade of a Pitch Apple tree.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>A church meeting house</h3><br>
<p>Constructed at 1582 Harrison Street as the First Church of Christ, Scientist, it was the second building erected by the church in Hollywood. The first was destroyed very shortly after it was built by the 1926 hurricane. The Hollywood branch was recognized by The Mother Church in 1927 and the congregation rebuilt dedicating the building in 1932. During World War II, the congregation members played key roles in a program which provided clothing relief to war-ravaged European countries. Donated clothing was collected and new garments sewn. The building served as the church&#39;s meeting place until 1950 when the church built a larger building it was then used as a Sunday school. By 1959, the church sought to build another structure on the site.</p><br>
<h3>The garden club</h3><br>
<p>The building was donated (for a nominal fee) to the Hollywood Garden Club in 1959. On July 9 that year it was moved to its current location. The club had been in existence for thirty-two years but did not have a meeting place. Members lent the club $100 each to cover the cost of moving the building and installing it with electricity and plumbing. The building is historically significant because of the civic contributions of the garden club particularly when it served as the club&#39;s garden center building.</p><br>
<h4>Civic activities</h4><br>
<p>Garden club projects included conservation activism, anti-litter campaigns, community beautification projects and Arbor Day plantings. The greater membership encouraged and afforded by having the facility improved the clubs effectiveness in campaigns and improved their finances. The building and site allowed the garden club to substantially increase their civic activities. For forty years the building was the club&#39;s meeting place and repository for their archives. The Hollywood Garden Club engaged extensively in progressive civic activities until the 1970s when profession opportunities improved for women and membership in garden and similar clubs declined.</p><br>
<p>In 1960, the garden club hosted the Seventh Annual Conservation Conference of the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs (district 11). Among the uses of the clubs funds were contributions to the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs Wekiva Youth Camp. Located in Wekiwa Springs State Park in Apopka, Florida the youth camp provides a nature immersive experience for 3rd through 8th graders.</p><br>
<p>Newspaper articles from the 1950s describe the clubs involvement in rubbish removal and concealing trash areas. Litter bag giveaways, bumper stickers and a newspaper advertisement were among the clubs anti-litter activities by 1961. Club archives show participation of the local Sears store and their management in a number of club programs. This was likely a part of the Home and Neighborhood Development Sponsors program which started in 1957 and was nationally sponsored by the department store chain.</p><br>
<p>Club members devoted time and resources to the South Florida State Hospital Garden Therapy Program. The club was active in the garden therapy program for more than ten years. Having the facility helped the club grow plants and handle the logistics of their participation in the program. Garden therapy was a focus for the federation with greenhouses, books, plants and supplies provided to four institutions including, Riaford Prison and Lowell Prison for Women in Avon Park.</p><br>
<h4>Final years</h4><br>
<p>The Hollywood Garden Club formed on March 18, 1927. This was two years before the surviving national organization (National Garden Clubs). Club membership peaked at over 100 in 1960. The operated continuously from 1927 to 1999. In the 1990s membership fell to six and the club could no longer afford the insurance on the building.</p><br>
<h2>Modern times</h2><br>
<p>On February 23, 1999, the four remaining members of the garden club deeded the building to the City of Hollywood. The proximity to the Historic Hollywood Railway Station lead to use of the building for railroad-related community organizations. In 2001 the building was utilized as the clubhouse, museum, and showroom of the Big Pine and Sawgrass Model Railroad Club. In 2005 it was functioning as an educational facility for railroad related programs administered by three nonprofit organizations; the Hollywood Railroad Station Museum, the Dorothy Walker Bush Museum and the Big Pine and Sawgrass Model Railroad Club. The Dorothy Walker Bush Museum never actually came to be as a museum, and the organizer was charged with multiple felonies and pled guilty to grand theft related to the abuse of state funds appropriated for the museum. The building no longer appears on street view of Google Maps.</p><br>
<p>The Mott Willis Store, also known as the Knight-Willis Store, was a historic building in Charlotte Harbor, Florida. It was located at 22960 Bayshore Road. On May 30, 1997, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. However, the following year it was demolished.</p><br>
<p>In 2000, an archeological dig was performed at the Mott Willis General Store site. Artifacts recovered from the excavation are on display at the.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Mott Willis Store, originally known as the Knight-Willis Store, was opened by cattle barons, Joel and Thomas Knight, during the initial American settlement and growth of the Hickory Bluff area, after the Civil War in 1872. The store was then purchased by Mott Willis in 1912. Willis reconstructed the store from its original wood structure to a concrete block building in 1922.</p><br>
<p>In the 1970s, the store was known as The White Elephant and sold used goods and salvaged building materials before being transformed into a theater for the.</p><br>
<p>Efforts to save and restore the store by the Knight Historic Building, Inc. were defeated in court and the structure was destroyed in 1998.</p><br>
<p>St. Anthony Catholic School is a historic school in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It is located at 820 Northeast 3rd Street. Saint Anthony Catholic School is the parochial Catholic school of St. Anthony Catholic Church in Broward County. On September 26, 1997, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. The school building was built in 1926 by John Olsson. The architect was Francis Abreu.</p><br>
<h2>Notable alumni</h2><br>
<h3>Athletics</h3><br>
<p>Chris Evert, former professional tennis player, member of International Tennis Hall of Fame</p><br>
<p>Jeanne Evert, former professional tennis player</p><br>
<p>Sarah Lihan, Olympian who placed 9th in women&#39;s sailing 470 at 2012 Summer Olympics</p><br>
<p>Brian Piccolo, former professional football player, inspiration for film Brian&#39;s Song</p><br>
<p>Mike Stanley, former professional baseball player and 1995 American League All-Star</p><br>
<h3>Arts, entertainment, and civil service</h3><br>
<p>Michael Connelly, author of The Lincoln Lawyer and former president of Mystery Writers of America</p><br>
<p>Charles Liteky, former Army chaplain and Medal of Honor recipient</p><br>
<p>William J. Zloch, USA District Court Judge for the Southern District of Florida</p><br>
<p>The William H. Gleason House is a historic home in Melbourne, Florida, United States. The house was built around 1884 by William Henry Gleason  and his wife Sarah Griffin Gleason and is at 1736 Pineapple Avenue in the Eau Gallie neighborhood founded by the Gleasons before incorporating with Melbourne in 1969. Gleason House is an outstanding example of Queen Anne style architecture. On January 25, 1997, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Sam Gilliam House  is a historic home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It is located at 11 Southwest 15th Street. On March 29, 2001, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The two-story building displays features of both the mediterranean revival and Prairie School architectural styles. It has a flat roof with parapets concealed by pent roofs with green barrel tiles. It was built by Sam Gilliam owner of a lumber company. Constructed of hollow clay tile covered with stucco the exterior does not have much ornamentation instead using window and roof design to create visual interest. The pent roofs, attached to the parapet walls, conceal the parapet and create wide overhanging eaves. The roof ridge junctions feature loaf shaped tile finials. The interior of the house is notable for its use of wood, with inlaid doors, tiger oak floors, red oak mantles, wide baseboards and French doors.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Gilliam house was originally built at the corner of SE 9th Street and SE 3rd Avenue at 300 SE 9th Street. It was commissioned in 1924 at the peak of the Florida land boom of the 1920s. In 1998 the house was offered for free to anyone who could move it from the original site. The current owners moved the 3,900 square foot structure in July 1998 to its current location at 11 SW 15th Street adjacent to the historic Croissant Park Administration Building.</p><br>
<h2>Sam Gilliam</h2><br>
<p>Sam Gilliam in addition to operating a lumber and building business was a leader in the local Republican party. The house was designed to be a showplace with its striking design and ornamented inside with fine woodwork. The guests at Gilliam&#39;s parties are said to have included presidents. Gilliam came to Fort Lauderdale in 1913 working as local manager for a Palm Beach lumber company. The next year he went into business for himself starting the Everglades Lumber Company. Noted as a Republican in primarily Democratic Broward County he was active in politics. Gilliam was a delegate to several Republican National Conventions, arranged a golf outing for president-elect Warren G. Harding and may have entertained Herbert Hoover.</p><br>
<p>The George Randolph Frisbee Jr. House is a historic house located at 2125 Palmetto Street in Middleburg, Florida. It is locally significant as an excellent example of late 19th century vernacular building trends and also as one of the few buildings dating from the early developmental period of the community.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a two-story, Frame Vernacular building, with an L-shaped floor plan. It has a steeply-pitched, side gabled roof. The symmetrical main facade is dominated by a two-story, hip roofed porch with chamfered post supports and a balustrade. There is a rear gabled, one-story ell, and a two-story shed roofed addition on the rear elevation. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 9, 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Green House was a historic two-story home in Orange Park, Florida. It was the oldest building of Orange Parks black community, located at 531 McIntosh Avenue. On July 15, 1998, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places, becoming the Registers only minority-owned property in Clay County at the time.</p><br>
<p>Green was a black carpenter from Mississippi who settled in Orange Park around 1886 and built this home in 1893. His daughter-in-law sold the home to St. James AME Church for $30,000 in 1994. The church then used it as a rental property, so it was not open for public tours.</p><br>
<p>AME Churches in Florida, the parent church of the local congregation, sued a number of local congregants to gain ownership of the property. The parent church&#39;s bishop said the local church had promised to build a new sanctuary on that spot, so he agreed to drop the lawsuit on the condition that the home be demolished.</p><br>
<p>The William Helffrich House is a historic house located at 1200 Plainfield Avenue in Orange Park, Florida. It is locally significant as a frame vernacular house with Gothic Revival influences, and for being one of Orange Park&#39;s largest 19th century houses.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1878</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 15, 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Guaranty Building is a historic site in West Palm Beach, Florida. It is located at 120 South Olive Avenue.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed historically significant as "it was the biggest real estate investment in the history of West Palm Beach" at the time of its construction in 1922, and also for its association with architect Henry Stephen Harvey.</p><br>
<p>On December 10, 1998, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Gesu Church is a historic Roman Catholic church in Miami, Florida. It is located at 118 Northeast 2nd Street. On July 18, 1974, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. The church was built in 1896 and is the oldest Catholic Church in Miami.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Gesu Church is significant for its important role in the religious history of Miami and as a reflection of the City&#39;s growth and development. In addition, the buildings are excellent examples of religious architecture and noteworthy for the excellence of its design, craftsmanship, and detailing.</p><br>
<p>Gesu is Miami&#39;s oldest Catholic parish and has served the religious and humanitarian needs of the community for over a century. The growth of the parish closely parallels the development of the City of Miami.</p><br>
<p>Miamis first Catholic Mass was conducted in 1872 when Father Dufau, who had been sent to South Florida by Bishop John Marcellus Peter Augustine Verot, P.S.S. of St. Augustine, celebrated Mass and confirmed the pioneer family of William J. Wagner. Wagner constructed a small wooden church on his homestead in 1875, and this became Miamis first house of worship.</p><br>
<p>The Holy Name Parish (now Gesu) was organized in 1896 and the pastor was Father Ambrose Fontan, S.J. A new church was constructed in 1897 on land donated by Henry Flagler. As Miamis population and the Holy Name congregation expanded, the need for a larger church became evident. A cornerstone was subsequently laid on December 10, 1920, on the site of the earlier church, and the new building was dedicated in 1925. The Gesu Parish School opened in 1905 with six grades and 60 students. The original school name was The Academy of the Sisters of St. Joseph St. Catherines Convent. The school was also known as St. Catherines Convent School and St. Catherines Academy. There were four graduates in the first high school graduating class of 1913. The Sisters of St. Joseph of St. Augustine, Florida, were the teaching staff at the school.</p><br>
<p>A new five story school was built in 1926 and the name changed to Gesu Parish School. It was located at 130 Northeast 2nd Street. The last Gesu High School graduation was in 1953. There were 40 graduates in that class. The last eighth grade graduation was in 1982 when the school was closed. The school was demolished in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Gesu Church continues to serve as one of the three downtown churches and was recently restored to its original appearance. The parish has been staffed by the Jesuits of Antilles province since 2004. Previously it was staffed by the Jesuits of New Orleans province. Father Eduardo "Eddy" Alvarez, S.J. is the pastor. The church seating capacity is 700 plus 150 in choir balcony.</p><br>
<h2>Leadership</h2><br>
<p>Below are lists of individuals who have led the church and school since their founding.</p><br>
<h3>Church Pastors</h3><br>
<p>Rev. Ambrose Fontan, S.J. (1896–1898)</p><br>
<p>Rev. James Moore, S.J. (1898 )</p><br>
<p>Rev. Ambrose Fontan, S.J. (1898–1903)</p><br>
<p>Rev. Patrick Kennedy, S.J. (1903–1908)</p><br>
<p>Rev. Alexander B. Friend (1908–1914)</p><br>
<p>Rev. James McLaughlin, S.J. (1914–1929)</p><br>
<p>Rev. Edward Cummings, S.J. (1929–1930)</p><br>
<p>Rev. Michael McNally, S.J. (1930–1934)</p><br>
<p>Rev. Florence D. Sullivan, S.J. (1934–1945)</p><br>
<p>Rev. John H. McAtee, S.J. (1945–1949)</p><br>
<p>Rev. John Druhan, S.J. (1949–1953)</p><br>
<p>Rev. Harold Gaudin, S.J. (1953–1959)</p><br>
<p>Rev. John Sweeney, S.J. (1959–1970)</p><br>
<p>Rev. Michael English, S.J. (1970–1971)</p><br>
<p>Rev. Ignatius Fabacher, S.J. (1971–1975)</p><br>
<p>Rev. John Edwards, S.J. (1975–1983)</p><br>
<p>Rev. James Donald Pearce, S.J. (1983–1991)</p><br>
<p>Rev. George Casey, S.J. (1991–1993)</p><br>
<p>Rev. Thomas J. Madden, S.J. (1993–2002)</p><br>
<p>Rev. William Mayer, S.J. (2002–2004)</p><br>
<p>Rev. Eduardo J. Alvarez, S.J. (2004–Present)</p><br>
<h4>Current Pastor</h4><br>
<p>Rev. Eduardo J. Alvarez, S.J. (born in 1945 in Cuba) graduated from Belen Jesuit Preparatory School in 1963. He received a master of arts degree from St. Michaels College and a masters degree in education from Barry University. Prior to becoming pastor at Gesu Church, he taught at Belen Jesuit Preparatory School and was its chaplain (1975–2004).</p><br>
<h3>First Sisters of St. Joseph at School</h3><br>
<p>Sister Euphemia</p><br>
<p>Sister Aloysia</p><br>
<p>Sister Raymond</p><br>
<h3>School Principals</h3><br>
<p>Sister M. Euphemia Sullivan (1905–1909)</p><br>
<p>Sister Margaret Mary Hanlon (1909–1922)</p><br>
<p>Unknown (1922–1934)</p><br>
<p>Sister Francis of Assissi Byrne (Sister F. Assissium) (1934–1941)</p><br>
<p>Sister Francis of Assissi Byrne (Sister F. Assissium), Mother Theresa Joseph Brown (1941–1942)</p><br>
<p>Rev. Godfrey S. Cook, Sister M. Celestine Hehir (1942–1945)</p><br>
<p>Sister Mary Herbert Rogero (1945–1952)</p><br>
<p>Mother Theresa Joseph Brown (1952–1958)</p><br>
<p>Sister St. Anne Stone (1958–1961)</p><br>
<p>Sister Teresa Maria O&#39;Donovan (1961–1967)</p><br>
<p>Sister Margaret Therese Schaufler (1967–1971)</p><br>
<p>Sister M. Trinita McCarthy (1971–1979)</p><br>
<p>Sister Mary Ester Flanagan (1979–1981)</p><br>
<p>Sister Breedeen Connolly (1981–1985)</p><br>
<p>El Retiro  is a historic site in Lake Wales, Florida. It is located at 1151 Tower Blvd, Lake Wales, FL 33853. The 12,900 square foot house was designed by architect Charles R. Wait for the original owner, Charles Austin Buck, a Bethlehem Steel executive.</p><br>
<p>The design specified a "barrel-tile roof, thick walls, substantial carved doors and woodwork, and intricately detailed wrought iron... and three large porches". The gardens were designed by William Lyman Phillips of the Olmsted Brothers firm. The work on the property was completed in 1929-1930. Buck owned the home until 1947. It was purchased by Nellie Lee Holt Bok in 1970 and renamed Pinewood Estate. A subsequent restoration of the gardens, to their original design, was completed by landscape architect Rudy Favretti.</p><br>
<p>Since 1970, the estate has been part of Bok Tower Gardens, and is again known as El Retiro. Visitors to the Bok Tower Gardens may tour the home for an additional fee.</p><br>
<p>On December 12, 1985, the 20 room home was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Addison Community Baptist Church is a historic church building at 4970 Vermont Route 22A in the village center of Addison, Vermont. Built in 1816 and restyled in 1849, it is one of Vermont&#39;s oldest Baptist churches, and a good local example of Greek Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 as Addison Baptist Church.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Addison Community Baptist Church stands just south of Addison Town Hall, on the west side of Vermont Route 22A just south of its junction with Vermont Route 17. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. It is three bays wide and three deep, the bays of the front and sides articulated by pilasters. An entablature encircles the building below the roof line, and a square tower rises through the front of the roof. It has a plain first stage in which the front facade includes a panel with the building&#39;s construction date. It is topped by an entablature and cornice, above which the smaller belfry stage rises. It is also square, with pilastered corners, entablature and louvered openings. An octagonal steeple rises above the belfry, terminating in a spire. The front facade is relatively plain, with unwindowed side bays flanking a projecting central bay. The main entrance is recessed in that bay, where a pair of sash windows are mounted above the doorway. The interior retains original box pews. Federal style columns that originally supported the gallery are now used as supports in the basement, where the vestry is located.</p><br>
<p>Addison&#39;s Baptist congregation was organized in 1797, and organized the construction of this building in 1816. In 1849 the building underwent a major restyling, at which time its Greek Revival features were added. Alterations since then have been limited: the building has been fitted with electricity and modern plumbing, and an ell was added to the rear in 1962.</p><br>
<p>The Epping Forest  was a historic, 58 acre estate in Jacksonville, Florida, United States where a luxurious riverfront mansion was built in the mid-1920s by industrialist Alfred I. du Pont and his third wife, Jessie Ball du Pont. It was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and has been restored to its original grandeur as the home of the Epping Forest Yacht Club. On April 18, 2012, the AIA&#39;s Florida Chapter placed the Epping Forest Yacht Club on its list of "Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places".</p><br>
<h2>du Pont history</h2><br>
<p>Alfred I. du Pont was originally from Delaware and controlled the famous DuPont Chemical Company with his cousins, Pierre and Coleman. Over the years, their relationship deteriorated to the point where Alfred resigned from the family company in 1917. He created business ventures in Delaware and New York, but in 1925, cousin Pierre was named Delawares Tax Commissioner. To prevent Pierre from sticking his nose into Alfreds property holdings and investments, Alfred decided to relocate to Jacksonville, Florida, a city he&#39;d often heard his mother talk about when he was growing up.</p><br>
<p>Alfred and Jessie became legal residents of Florida and Alfred began a second career pioneering the development of sound banking practices and investing in transportation and the paper industry.</p><br>
<p>The location Alfred chose for their permanent home was at Christopher Point, the widest spot on the St. Johns River, which provided an excellent area for his favorite pastime, yachting on his beloved Nenemoosha, built in 1922.</p><br>
<p>Local architects Marsh & Saxelbye designed the 15,000 ft&sup2, 25-room Epping Forest Mansion, but Harold Saxelbye contributed the most influence. It is primarily Mediterranean Revival, combining influences from Gothic, Spanish Renaissance and Baroque architectural. Jessie selected the furnishings; Alfred designed the formal English gardens and lions head fountain. The estate was named in honor of Mary Ball Washington, George Washingtons mother and Jessie&#39;s ancestor, whose Virginia plantation bore the same name. The duPonts estate hosted USA presidents, powerful men (Vanderbilt, Carnegie, etc.) and kings.</p><br>
<p>After Jessie Ball duPont died in 1970, Edward Ball, who was Jessie&#39;s brother, sold the property to his close friend and local businessman Raymond K. Mason, CEO of the Charter Company, who used the property as his family residence until 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Epping Forest Yacht & Country Club</h2><br>
<p>In 1984, Gate Petroleum Company purchased the 58 acre du Pont estate. The 11⅓ acres occupied by the mansion, gardens, boathouse and riverfront were restored to their original splendor and transformed into the Epping Forest Yacht & Country Club.</p><br>
<p>The remaining property was developed into a gated community of ninety $1 million homes and 80 condominiums under the Epping Forest name. The last home was constructed in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The former St. Andrews Episcopal Church building, also known as Old St. Andrews Event Venue, is an historic building located at 317 Florida Avenue  in downtown Jacksonville, Florida. It was originally an Episcopal church, but closed when the parish relocated to the suburbs in 1960. On May 4, 1976, the edifice was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. In the 1990s it was purchased by the City of Jacksonville and turned over to the Jacksonville Historical Society , and now serves as an event venue managed by the society.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>St. Andrews Episcopal Church was designed by architect Robert S. Schuyler in the Gothic Revival style. Schuyler also designed St. Peters Church in Fernandina, built in 1881, as well as chapels in Waldo, Fairbanks, Pablo Beach, and Lake Santa Fe. St. Andrews was built in 1887 on a single level using brick masonry and contained a massive front corner tower with louvered belfry and steep spire roof. It stood at 317 Florida Avenue, now 317 A. Philip Randolph Boulevard. The architecture was praised in the 1889 edition of Kings Handbook of Notable Episcopal Churches in the United States:</p><br>
<p>St. Andrews was the only major church in the city that survived the Great Fire of 1901.</p><br>
<h3>Economic boom</h3><br>
<p>Beginning with World War II, the area along the river north of the city center experienced an economic boom as dozens of industrial operations moved in. Liberty Ships were built to support the war effort. The Gator Bowl Stadium was erected in 1949 and construction began on the Mathews Bridge, which opened in 1953. Jacksonville Baseball Park began construction in 1954. The once quiet neighborhood had become undesirable, and residents began to move elsewhere. Residential development in the suburbs increased dramatically, and membership at St. Andrews fell to the point that it could no longer support itself. The Arlington Mission of the Episcopal Diocese of Florida was created in July 1959, and in January 1960, it was renamed St. Andrews and all the furnishings and memorials of the old St. Andrews were moved to 7801 Lone Star Road.</p><br>
<p>Old St. Andrews Episcopal Church was deconsecrated, closed and boarded up. The once thriving area around the church declined, and by the late 1970s the building had fallen into disuse and disrepair. Vacant for almost three decades, the building was a tremendous challenge for historic preservation. The situation changed with the arrival of the Jacksonville Jaguars NFL team, as the City of Jacksonville purchased most of the land around Jacksonville Municipal Stadium, including the Old St. Andrews site.</p><br>
<h2>Rebirth</h2><br>
<p>The City of Jacksonville gave the Jacksonville Historical Society the rights to the building to restore it. According to the JHS website, many people thought that the condition of the structure was beyond repair. However, a $242,000 preservation grant was secured from the state of Florida in 1996, and a challenge grant from the Weaver Foundation helped the JHS to raise $1 million to complete the project. Restoration began in 1996 and was completed on April 18, 1998, with the structure becoming the new home of the Jacksonville Historical Society. Since restoration the building is seen as one of the finest specimens of nineteenth-century architecture in Duval County, and it is a popular spot for meetings, weddings and other civic events. It was the site of the ESPN Super Bowl XXXIX party in January 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Hutchinson House is a historic home completed in 1908 in Tampa, Florida, United States. It is a three-story brick building in the Second Empire architecture. The building includes a high mansard roof and large porch with tall Corinthian columns.</p><br>
<p>It was built by Currie J. Hutchinson, a local merchant, and is one of the few structures of its style in Florida. It was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on November 1, 1977, and is located at 304 Plant Avenue.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Hutchinson House was built by Mr. Currie Hutchinson. Construction began in 1906 and the building was finished in 1908. Most of the building materials were shipped from Hutchinson&#39;s home state of Ohio. The masonry technique was rather unusual and allowed for a very tight mortar line in between the red bricks.</p><br>
<p>The exterior walls are approximately 18 inches thick of solid brick. The building even has a basement, which has remained dry for over 100 years, despite being situated less than 1/8 of a mile from the Tampa Bay. There are 5 working fireplaces, 3 on the first floor, two on the second floor and a stove in the basement. The total construction cost was reported to be approximately six thousand five hundred dollars. A small fortune back then.</p><br>
<p>The Hutchinson Mansion was occupied by the Hutchinson family while Mr. Hutchinson operated his pharmacy on Franklin Street in downtown Tampa.</p><br>
<p>It was next used as a hospital from approximately 1932 to 1946. Hutchinson House was then used as a rooming house until 1958 when it became the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. It remained a fraternity house until 1977 the University of Tampa kicked all the fraternities off the campus and the Hutchinson house was left empty (and in very rough shape).</p><br>
<p>The University of Tampa sold the mansion to the City of Tampa. The City of Tampa sold the Hutchinson House to the Tampa Preservation Society, which commenced a major restoration of the building which continued for approximately two years.</p><br>
<p>In 1980, attorney William B. Plowman began negotiations with the Tampa Preservation Society to purchase the Hutchinson House. He purchased the building in 1981, and continued the restoration including improvements to the first, second and third floors, most notably restoring access to the third floor without interfering with the interior flow of the house. All historical aspects were strictly adhered to during all the restorations.</p><br>
<p>In 1989, Matt Powell rented space from Mr. Plowman. Matt loved the building so much that he was able to persuade Mr. Plowman to transfer the duties of the Hutchinson House to him in 1999. Matt Powell purchased the historical building and has continued to preserve, restore and maintain this magnificent building.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>One of the most interesting things about the Historical Hutchinson house is the architecture style. It is of the "Second Empire" style, which is reflected in the third Floor exterior walls. The third floor is contained inside the mansard roof. The mansard roof is made of slate. Each slate shingle was cut by hand, and has lasted over a century. The Hutchinson house has been through 100 years of hurricanes, heat and cold, and still remains in excellent condition.</p><br>
<p>Second Empire is an architectural style popular during the Victorian era, reaching its zenith between 1865 and 1880, and so named for the "French" elements in vogue during the era of the Second French Empire. The canonical example of Second Empire style is the Opera Garnier (formerly known as the "Paris Opera") in Paris. In the United States, the Second Empire style usually includes a steep, mansard roof; the roof being the most noteworthy link to the style&#39;s French roots. This tower element could be of equal height of the top most floor. As was done with the Hutchinson House. The mansard roof crest was often topped with an iron trim, sometimes referred to as "cresting".</p><br>
<p>The Hutchinson Mansion also prominently displays 3 separate chimneys extending 10 feet above the roof top. These chimneys service the 5 fireplaces, and stove.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, a replica of the original gas lantern was restored to the front yard. And the Hutchinson House Stone, seen above, was used as a stepping stone to make it easier to sit upon your horse.</p><br>
<h2>Landmark status</h2><br>
<p>The Hutchinson House has been a historical landmark building since 1977, when the United States Department of the Interior decided that due to the architecture, age, and condition of the building that it should be preserved as a historical landmark.</p><br>
<p>The Old People&#39;s Home  is a historic building in the V.M. Ybor neighborhood of Tampa, Florida. It is located at 1203 East 22nd Avenue. On October 17, 2000, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1924, the two story, Colonial Revival style building with a grand, columned portico along the main facade was primarily designed by Frank A. Winn, Jr. and A.H. Johnson. It was Tampa&#39;s first privately supported and purpose-built home for the care of the elderly and represented a major civic achievement for the community. The building is set on a 4.5 acre site which features several stately oak trees.</p><br>
<p>The building continues to operate as a residential elder-care facility per its original intent as The Home Association, Inc., a not-for-profit Senior Skilled Nursing Facility.</p><br>
<p>The Lewis House, also known as Lewis Spring House, is a historic home in Tallahassee, Florida, located north of I-10, at 3117 Okeeheepkee Road. It was built in 1954. On February 14, 1979, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for George Lewis II, President of the Lewis State Bank, and his wife Clifton. George Lewis gave the name "Spring House" to the home "for the natural spring and small stream that flows from the property." The National Trust for Historic Preservation describes its significance: "The novel hemicycle form of Spring House represents a late, and little-known, stage in Wright’s long, prolific career. Although there are approximately 400 intact houses attributed to Wright throughout the country, only a fraction were from his hemicycle series."</p><br>
<p>Spring House Institute was formed to protect the house in 1996 but the first work project was not started until January 2013. The Institute is raising funds to acquire, restore, complete, maintain and manage the house as a learning institute, as the original owners, George Lewis II and his wife, Clifton Van Brunt Lewis dreamed their home would one day become.</p><br>
<p>On April 18, 2012, the AIA&#39;s Florida Chapter placed the house on its list of Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places.</p><br>
<p>In 2014, the National Trust for Historic Preservation included the house on its annual list of "America&#39;s Eleven Most Endangered Places." Spring House Institute is trying to save it.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church is an historic church in Tallahassee, Florida. It is located at 102 North Adams Street. The congregation was first organized on November 4, 1832, and the church building was built between 1835 and 1838, which makes it the oldest church in Tallahassee and the oldest building in Florida that&#39;s still being used for its original purpose.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed to serve as a sanctuary for women and children during American Indian attacks. Rifle slots are built into the foundation but are not visible from outside. On September 9, 1974, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Today, there are still services every Sunday at 11:00 A.M.There are estimated to be several hundred members of the congregation, with average attendance of just over two hundred persons. The congregation is part of the Presbyterian Church (USA), and is known for having and maintaining a progressive theological and social perspective through the years. Since 2008, First Presbyterian Church has been affiliated with The Covenant Network of Presbyterians, and supports the ordination of all qualified persons into both lay and ordained ministry, regardless of sexual orientation. For the past several years, First Presbyterian Church has been a sponsor of Pridefest. In 2009, the "Light from Light" campaign was born. As a part of this program, solar panels were added to the building, making First Presbyterian one of only a few churches nationwide to generate a portion of its own electricity. As of 2010, First Presbyterian Church was home to the second largest solar panel array in Leon County.</p><br>
