Winter Park: A Town and Its People

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Kenneth Murrah's informative and entertaining presentation to the Winter Park (FL) Historical Association on November 18, 2010. The PowerPoint program includes his narration.

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Initiated by Rachel Murrah, 1982Added to and presented by Kenneth Murrah

With assistance from Ann Hicks Murrah

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7Florida 1861

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Oliver Chapman and Loring Chase

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Bigelow House - built in 187518

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20Winter Park map plan

Park Avenue

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22Park-Canton – (Panera etc.)

23Winter Park map plan

24Knowles Schoolhouse – built in 1890 - students and teachers

25Francis Knowles

26Winter Park Auto Company - 1913

“Ann Taylor” property – November 201027

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Looking across Central Park from Morse near New York

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Looking across Central Park from Morse near New York

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Looking across Central Park from Morse near New York

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Looking across Central Park from Morse near New York

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Ergood’s, looking south on Park Avenue

Penzeys Spices33

34Park at Morse – Southeast corner - 1912

35Park at Morse – southeast corner (2nd brick building)

36First movie house - 1915

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1st brick building on Park - 1911

38Williams Sonoma

39Park at Welbourne - built in 1884

Be On Park40

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Central Park fountain

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Park N from New England - Henkel building (1886) at right

43Henkel Building

44Park Avenue north from New England

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Colony Theater – Looking north on Park from City Hall in the ’40s

Colony toward the North46

47Original City Hall – dedicated 1916

48City Hall

49Winter Park Elementary and High School – built in 1914

50Restoration Hardware – across from City Hall

The Railroads

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Park Avenue

52Original train depot – built 1882

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Atlantic Coast Line Depot – built in 1912

54Train station (built in 1962)

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Packing house exterior

56Packing house interior

57Farmers Market (originally Railroad Express, built in 1920’s)

Farmers market - rear58

59Historical Museum

60Dinky Dock

611887 Dinky groundbreaking

East of Park Avenue

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Orlando-Winter Park Railroad station – on Lake Virginia

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Dinky Line

The Seminole Hotel

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65New England East from railroad

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New England east from RR

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Trolley from Railroad to Seminole Hotel

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Original Seminole Hotel facing Lake Osceola – opened 1886

Park Ave………..

69Seminole Hotel - 1902 fire

East Winter Park

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71Windsong marker

72David Mizell - 1858

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Winter Park Memorial Hospital – opened in 1955

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Aloma Country Club – opened 1926

75Aloma at Lakemont

76Showalter Airpark 1951

77Showalter Airpark 1951

78Showalter Airpark 1951

79Showalter Airpark 1951

80Showalter Airpark 1951

81Comstock –Harris House - 1871 - 1878 - 1883

82Mayor W. C. Temple’s 1898 house – on Alabama at Via Tuscany

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Temple House

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Alabama Hotel – on Lake Maitland (built in 1922)

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Alabama Hotel

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Palmer Avenue Bridge – built in 1889

87Palmer Bridge

Interlachen Avenue

Homes & Churches

& recreation long ago

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Winter Park Country Club – built in 1914

90Winter Park Country Club

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Winter Park Country Club postcard

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World War I Army training

93Lake Mizell Lakemont Park

94Swimsuit fashions

95Alligator catch

Recreation

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Ergood house on Interlachen – built in 1882

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Casa Feliz – original site

98Casa Feliz

99Interlachen – looking south from golf course

100Interlachen Avenue after hurricane in the ’40s

101Orange trees after February 1895 freeze

102Charles Hosmer Morse

103Jeannette Genius McKean

104Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art

105Osceola Lodge – Built 1886 by Knowles, expanded by Morse

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Morse plaque

Edward Brewer Residence 1899 and 1924107

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Original Methodist church - 1895

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Frederick Lyman’s house – built in 1883

110Frederick Lyman

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Whispering Waters, Morse at Old England – NE corner

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Venice of America

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Rogers House – opened 1882

114Cloisters

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Congregational Church – First used January 1885

116All Saints Episcopal Church (1888) and Pansy Cottage

117Library on Interlachen – built in 1902

Library c. 1959118

119Library

120Woman’s Club – Interlachen at Lyman – built in 1920

Rollins College

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122McKean Gateway

123Dr. E. P. Hooker

124Old Rollins

125Old Rollins

126Old Rollins

127Old Rollins

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Rollins 1920

129Annie Russell Theater + Chapel construction - 1931

130Annie Russell Theater + Knowles Chapel

Hannibal Square

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132Hannibal Square Marker detail

133Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptist Church (founded 1886)

134Ward Chapel A.M.E. Church (founded 1890)

135Chase gravestone

The West Side

136Chase gravestone close-up

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