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9th College Park Historic Homes Tour, in the Shadow of Interstate 4, 1999
Almost 80 years ago, long before Interstate 4 was dreamed of, developer Walter R. Rose transformed groveland into building lots with streets he named for colleges and universities. Our tour includes homes from his December 1921 Rosemere subdivision and from...
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College Park Historic Homes Tour - West Lake Adair / South College Park, 1998
In the 1910's and 20's the area north of Colonial now called College Park was mostly grove land, ripe for development. In 1922 grove owner Theron J. Walker created the Edgewater subdivision from land he had held since 1906. He...
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College Park Historic Homes Tour North From Lake Adair, 1997
Lake Adair reportedly got its name in 1884, when John W. Childress bought an adjacent grove and bestowed his wife's name on the lake. The eastern border of Childress' land would have been today's Westmoreland. By 1920, that land and...
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College Park Historic Homes Tour - Shore Crest, 1996
The 1920's boom transformed groves, farms and woodlands into neatly platted small-lot subdivisions now collectively called College Park. One of the first developers to realize this area's potential was Walter W. Rose. Active in Orlando real estate since 191...
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Historic Homes Walking Tour: The College Streets of College Park Brochure
College Park developed as a neighborhood within the city of Orlando. The name did not come from a college. It originated with a developer, Walter Rose, who named streets after Ivy League colleges in 1921. In 1925 another development company,...
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College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee’s Lake Concord and Lake Adair Historic House Tour, December, 1993
The Lake Concord/Adair area of College Park was the subject of a 1984 Historic Resources Survey conducted for the City of Orlando. In 1989, College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee volunteers supplemented the survey. The committee continues t...
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College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee’s Lake Concord's Southwest Shore Historic House Tour, December, 1994
At the turn of the century, the Lake Concord area was semi-rural. Near the lake were orange groves, and a few homes of grove owners. James P. Wilcox was a prominent landholder. In 1910, Judge Thomas Picton Warlow and his...
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College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee’s Ivanhoe Area Historic House Tour, 1995
On the shores of Lake Ivanhoe, near where Dartmouth Street meets the lake, ground was broken Feb. 26, 1925 for the first subdivision to be called College Park (north to Princeton, west to Edgewater, east to University). The developers of...
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College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee's Ivanhoe Historic House Tour, 1992
The Ivanhoe area of College Park was recently the subject of  a Historic Resources Survey conducted for the City of Orlando, supplementing a 1984 study. The 1992 survey area extends from the north side of Lakeview through the south side...
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College Park Neighborhood Association Dubsdread Area Historic House Tour, 1991
The Dubsdread area got its start in 1923 with the founding of the White Stag Golf Course, later known as Dubsdread allegedly because golfers dreaded to dub (miss) a shot on this difficult golf course. Prominent real estate man Hanford...
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Loch Haven Park
Proposed Plan for the Development of Loch Haven Park The 72-page "Report and Recommendations for the Development of Loch Haven Park  - A Park and Cultural Center Proposed for the City of Orlando, Florida" was submitted to the city in January...
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Lora's Klip and Kurl
ABOVE: Advertisement in the 1963 Colonial High School yearbook. Special thanks to Lora's daughter Elizabeth Bucker for sharing her memories and photographs to make this post possible. ABOVE: Lora's Klip and Kurl Beauty Salon. You can see the  hair dryers al...
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