Kenneth Murrah's talk, "Winter Park: A Town and Its People." presented to the Winter Park Historical Society on November 18, 2010.

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2. 2 Initiated by Rachel Murrah, 1982 Added to and presented by Kenneth Murrah With assistance from Ann Hicks Murrah

3. Florida 1836 3

4. Florida 1836 4

5. Florida 1836 5

6. Florida 1836 6

7. 7 Florida 1861

8. 8 Oliver Chapman and Loring Chase

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10. Bigelow House - built in 1875 10

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12. 12 Winter Park map plan

13. Park Avenue 13

14. 14 Park-Canton – (Panera etc.)

15. 15 Knowles Schoolhouse – built in 1890 - students and teachers

16. 16 Francis Knowles

17. 17 Winter Park Auto Company - 1913

18. “Ann Taylor” property – November 2010 18

19. 19 Looking across Central Park from Morse near New York

20. 20 Looking across Central Park from Morse near New York

21. 21 Looking across Central Park from Morse near New York

22. 22 Looking across Central Park from Morse near New York

23. 23 Ergood’s, looking south on Park Avenue

24. Penzeys Spices 24

25. 25 Park at Morse – Southeast corner - 1912

26. 26 Park at Morse – southeast corner (2nd brick building)

27. 27 First movie house - 1915

28. 28 1st brick building on Park - 1911

29. 29 Williams Sonoma

30. 30 Park at Welbourne - built in 1884

31. Be On Park 31

32. 32 Central Park fountain

33. 33 Park N from New England - Henkel building (1886) at right

34. 34 Henkel Building

35. 35 Park Avenue north from New England

36. 36 Colony Theater – Looking north on Park from City Hall in the ’40s

37. Colony toward the North 37

38. 38 Original City Hall – dedicated 1916

39. 39 City Hall

40. 40 Winter Park Elementary and High School – built in 1914

41. 41 Restoration Hardware – across from City Hall

42. The Railroads 42

43. Park Avenue 43 Original train depot – built 1882

44. 44 Atlantic Coast Line Depot – built in 1912

45. 45 Train station (built in 1962)

46. 46 Packing house exterior

47. 47 Packing house interior

48. 48 Farmers Market (originally Railroad Express, built in 1920’s)

49. Farmers market - rear 49

50. 50 Historical Museum

51. 51 Dinky Dock

52. 52 1887 Dinky groundbreaking

53. East of Park Avenue 53 Orlando-Winter Park Railroad station – on Lake Virginia

54. 54 Dinky Line

55. The Seminole Hotel 55

56. 56 New England East from railroad

57. 57 New England east from RR

58. 58 Trolley from Railroad to Seminole Hotel

59. 59 Original Seminole Hotel facing Lake Osceola – opened 1886

60. Park Ave……….. 60 Seminole Hotel - 1902 fire

61. East Winter Park 61

62. 62 Windsong marker

63. 63 David Mizell - 1858

64. 64 Winter Park Memorial Hospital – opened in 1955

65. 65 Aloma Country Club – opened 1926

66. 66 Aloma at Lakemont

67. 67 Showalter Airpark 1951

68. 68 Comstock –Harris House - 1871 - 1878 - 1883

69. 69 Mayor W. C. Temple’s 1898 house – on Alabama at Via Tuscany

70. 70 Temple House

71. 71 Alabama Hotel – on Lake Maitland (built in 1922)

72. 72 Alabama Hotel

73. 73 Palmer Avenue Bridge – built in 1889

74. 74 Palmer Bridge

75. Interlachen Avenue Homes & Churches & recreation long ago 75

76. 76 Winter Park Country Club – built in 1914

77. 77 Winter Park Country Club

78. 78 Winter Park Country Club postcard

79. 79 World War I Army training

80. 80 Lake Mizell Lakemont Park

81. 81 Swimsuit fashions

82. 82 Alligator catch

83. Recreation 83 Ergood house on Interlachen – built in 1882

84. 84 Casa Feliz – original site

85. 85 Casa Feliz

86. 86 Interlachen – looking south from golf course

87. 87 Interlachen Avenue after hurricane in the ’40s

88. 88 Orange trees after February 1895 freeze

89. 89 Charles Hosmer Morse

90. 90 JeannetteGenius McKean

91. 91 Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art

92. 92 Osceola Lodge – Built 1886 by Knowles, expanded by Morse

93. 93 Morse plaque

94. Edward Brewer Residence 1899 and 1924 94

95. 95 Original Methodist church - 1895

96. 96 Frederick Lyman’s house – built in 1883

97. 97 Frederick Lyman

98. 98 Whispering Waters, Morse at Old England – NE corner

99. 99 Venice of America

100. 100 Rogers House – opened 1882

101. 101 Cloisters

102. 102 Congregational Church – First used January 1885

103. 103 All Saints Episcopal Church (1888) and Pansy Cottage

104. 104 Library on Interlachen – built in 1902

105. Library c. 1959 105

106. 106 Library

107. 107 Woman’s Club – Interlachen at Lyman – built in 1920

108. Rollins College 108

109. 109 McKean Gateway

110. 110 Dr. E. P. Hooker

111. 111 Old Rollins

112. 112 Old Rollins

113. 113 Old Rollins

114. 114 Old Rollins

115. 115 Rollins 1920

116. 116 Annie Russell Theater + Chapel construction - 1931

117. 117 Annie Russell Theater + Knowles Chapel

118. Hannibal Square 118

119. 119 Hannibal Square Marker detail

120. 120 Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptist Church (founded 1886)

121. 121 Ward Chapel A.M.E. Church (founded 1890)

122. 122 Chase gravestone

123. The West Side 123 Chase gravestone close-up

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