Tag: Colonial Revival

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The College Park Neighborhood Association's 16th Annual Homes Tour: Mediterranean Revivals, 2006
Mediterranean Revival is an eclectic style using Spanish, Italian Renaissance and Moorish architectural elements. In Florida, the style's popularity soared in the 1920's; it remained a pervasive influence until World War II. It was used for a variety of b ... Read more
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The College Park Neighborhood Association 15th Annual Historic Homes Tour, 2005
1327 Eastin Avenue Historic Home Featured in the College Park Neighborhood Association 15th Annual Historic Homes Tour.  Photo courtesy of College Park Historical Society Board Member Julie Northlake. A recent historic resources study of College Pa ... Read more
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College Park Neighborhood Association 12th Annual Historic Homes Tour, College Park Country Club, 2002
901 West Smith Street - Historic home featured in the 12th Annual Historic Homes Tour presented by The College Park Neighborhood Association.  Today's tour takes you through 1925 and 1926 subdivisions called College Park Country Club Section a ... Read more
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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 fr ... Read more
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College Park Historic Homes Tour - West Lake Adair / South College Park, 1998
818 Ellwood Avenue home featured in the College Park Historic Homes Tour, West Lake Adair/South College Park - Nov. 22, 1998. Photo provided by College Park Historical Society Board Member Julie Northlake. In the 1910's and 20's the area north of Coloni ... Read more
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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 ... Read more
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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 this former citru ... Read more