Tag: Joan Buning

The church was right downtown on Orange Avenue. Everything was right downtown...It had wonderful stained glass windows that have been saved all these many years and are still in our new cathedral that we have now. The original church was the only Catholic ... Read more

ABOVE: Catherine Bunning Steiger at the "Sneak Preview" for the restored Saint James Cathedral in downtown Orlando, November 13th, 2010. Mother and daughter oral history interview with the Bunings who lived in the last family home on Lake Eola. The tw ... Read more

President Lyndon B. Johnson, the first president ever to sleep in Orlando, stayed at the Cherry Plaza just around the corner from the Buning's family home on Lake Eola during his 1964 campaign visit. Alice Buning remembers competing with her brother, Rick ... Read more

Alice Buning grew up in the last family home on Lake Eola at the corner of Robinson Street and Rosalind Avenue. Her father, Mr. Bill Buning, had his insurance office downstairs, and her grandfather had his insurance office downtown. Alice grew up with Orl ... Read more

Joan Buning of St. James Cathedral expresses her gratitude for life in the United States in this excerpt from an oral history interview conducted on April 21, 2011. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Buning lived in the last family home on Lake Eola at the corner of Ro ... Read more