The Places They Stayed - Hotels, Boarding Houses and Lodges

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Where People Stayed:
Early Punta Gorda Hotels, Boarding
Houses and Lodges
by Punta Gorda History Center

Pre-Railroad Era:
before 1886
Rugged pioneers, seasonal fishermen, cattlemen and adventures came
to the area we now know a...

Spanish fish ranchos were established in Charlotte
Harbor as early as 1769.

No one knew for sure who built
it or when, but it was
considered the first house in
Punta Gorda.
Occupied by both the Lani...

The Railroad Era:
1886 - 1921
The Florida Southern Railway was completed to its terminus in Punta
Gorda in July 1886.
Two ...

Even before the rail line was
completed in 1886, the lumber to
construct the Peace River Lodge
was shipped by schooner fro...

Then the Railroad arrived in July 1886 with 200 laborers on board to
begin work on the Punta Gorda Hotel.
Hotel Constructi...

On June of 1886, men driving the
pilings for the wharf were in the habit
of going naked while working in the
water as ther...

Abe installed Fredericka and Harry in the house, then
he named it the “Pioneer House” and operated it as a
rooming house. ...

By 1958, at 72 years old, the house was getting a little
tired and began leaning on the neighboring building.
Work to raze...

Construction continuing on the Hotel Punta Gorda – This side faced Marion Avenue

Construction materials can be seen in this bay front view of the Hotel Punta Gorda

The completion of the
Hotel Punta Gorda helped
make Punta Gorda a
destination resort. An ad in
the NY Tribune on 2/16
indi...

1909 Sanborn Map

The Hotel Punta Gorda Lobby, ca 1903, boasted fishing
trophies and a collection of tarpon scales.
Florida resort hotels we...

The Hotel Punta Gorda limped along and was purchased by Baron
Collier in 1925.

In 1891 the El Palmetto Cigar Manufacturing Company was organized in Punta Gorda. A wooden frame factory
building and a ro...

1901 the cigar industry in Punta Gorda moved to Tampa
(Ybor City) and the buildings were sold to D.H. Hucksky,
who moved s...

The Dade Hotel was built in
1887 at the corner of Taylor
and Marion.
This two-story, twenty-two
room hotel had a fine dini...

Its name was changed to
the New Southland and
in January 1914 it
became the Seminole
Hotel.

A great ovation greeted Col.
Theodore Roosevelt when he
arrived in Punta Gorda on a
Sunday during the last week in
March 1...

In 1920 the structure was
placed on logs and rolled
one block to the corner of
Marion Avenue and
Sullivan Street. It suffe...

The Ingram Hotel was a boarding house for Negros. It was
located across King Street and the railroad tracks from the Hotel...

One of the most exciting
things were the minstrel
shows that came to town for
one-night stands. They’d set
up their big te...

This aerial photo of the
intersection of Marion
Avenue & King Street
was taken from the
tower roof of the Hotel
Punta Gord...

Zooming in we can just make out the Smith
Bakery, Café and Hotel on E. Marion
Avenue.
The original Smith Bakery was destro...

The Bayview Hotel was built after 1909
but prior to 1914.
By 1925 it was expanded and renamed the
Smith Hotel.

A November 4, 1914
advertisement offered the 23-
room concrete hotel for sale.
Later, Henry Smith built the first
shopping...

Across E. Marion Ave from the Smith Hotel is the Olive
which, on the 1925 Sanborn map, occupied the second floor
of 218 & ...

The Price House was actually
two independent buildings in
1914. Maxwell Charles Price,
the first City Engineer and later
C...

Automobile Era
1921 – 1980s
Wide-scale adoption of automobiles by general population signals the
end of passenger rail sys...

Barron Collier purchased the
Hotel Punta Gorda in 1925.
The old wooden siding was
covered with chicken wire and
stucco was...

It reopened in 1927 under the name the Hotel Charlotte
Harbor.
It reopened in 1927
under the name the
Hotel Charlotte Harb...

Inside the lobby of the Hotel Charlotte Harbor
A guest room in the Hotel Charlotte Harbor

Remnants of
Charlotte Harbor
Bridge
1931 Barron
Collier Bridge
Fill from dredging adds
land for pool and tennis
courts
Hot...

By 1925, the Charlotte Bay
Hotel was built on the site of
the former Seminole Hotel.
This was the city’s main
commercial h...

Catering to automobiles, a modest garage was built under the Charlotte Bay hotel at ground level much
like the parking spa...

Community Center building built in 1933 with
federal funding. The rustic, cypress-log building
was 80’ x 100’ and containe...

Municipal Trailer Park, ca. 1950s
This boat basin is now home to Punta
Gorda’s Laishley Marina.

This historic building at 215 Goldstein Street in 1896 was the site of Punta Gorda’s first high school. This is the new sc...

The Allapatchee Lodge was
the inspiration of Louis
Calder, president of Union
Bag and Paper Company. It
was built on Allig...

The Charlotte Harbor Spa…the last vestiges of the railroad-era hotel
Destroyed by fire August 14, 1959

Perry W. McAdow built this house in 1897. All that is left is the big
banyan tree at the entrance to Gilchrist Park across...

Person’s Tourist Cabins
Drive north on Route 17 or south on Route 41
and you will see vestiges of road side motels
from a ...

Complaining of the smell, the
commercial fish trade was
relocated from the dock beside the
Hotel Charlotte Harbor to Maude...

KOA Campground off
Rio Villa, now Harbor
Belle RV Resort?

Charlotte
Harbor Bridge
Barron
Collier
Bridge
The changing face of Punta Gorda
Howard Johnson’sHoliday Inn
This aerial vie...

Allegiant Era
2009 and beyond
Allegiant Airlines became the exclusive commercial carrier at Punta
Gorda Airport in 2009.
4...

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