Edgewater Hotel
Dublin Core
Title
Edgewater Hotel
Alternative Title
Edgewater Hotel
Subject
Winter Garden (Fla.)
Hotels--Florida
Description
The Edgewater Hotel, located at 99 West Plant Street in Winter Garden, Florida. The hotel is a part of the Winter Garden’s National Historic Register Business District, was completed in 1926 and opened in 1927 with 53 guestrooms available. At opening, rooms were rented for $2 or $2.50 a night and the hotel included all the modern conveniences of those times: an elevator, telephones in each room with a switchboard operator downstairs, steam heat controls in each room, adjoining bathrooms, up-to-date plumbing and fire sprinklers throughout the facility. During the 1940s, players from several professional baseball clubs stayed here while training at Walker Fields.
The Edgewater Hotel closed in 1968 and remained dormant for approximately 25 years. When city officials began discussing demolition of the building in order to construct a parking lot, concerned citizens formed the Winter Garden Heritage Foundation (WGHF), a non-profit organization, to purchase and restore the building. Intervention by the WGHF became unnecessary when Max Blanchard and Mike Lanza bought the building for restoration in 1995. Eight years later, the hotel reopened as a bed-and-breakfast with shops and restaurants such as Scoops and The Chef's Table.
The Edgewater Hotel closed in 1968 and remained dormant for approximately 25 years. When city officials began discussing demolition of the building in order to construct a parking lot, concerned citizens formed the Winter Garden Heritage Foundation (WGHF), a non-profit organization, to purchase and restore the building. Intervention by the WGHF became unnecessary when Max Blanchard and Mike Lanza bought the building for restoration in 1995. Eight years later, the hotel reopened as a bed-and-breakfast with shops and restaurants such as Scoops and The Chef's Table.
Source
Original color digital image: Winter Garden Heritage Foundation, Winter Garden, Florida.
Date Created
ca. 2008-2014
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original color digital image.
Is Part Of
Winter Garden Heritage Foundation, Winter Garden, Florida.
Winter Garden Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Format
image/jpg
Extent
281 KB
Medium
1 color digital image
Language
eng
Type
Still Image
Coverage
Edgewater Hotel, Winter Garden, Florida
Accrual Method
Donation
Mediator
History Teacher
Economics Teacher
Geography Teacher
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the Winter Garden Heritage Foundation and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.
Contributing Project
Curator
Bowers, Katherine
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
Source Repository
External Reference
"Our History." The Historic Edgewater Hotel. http://www.historicedgewater.com/history.htm.
Cappleman, Kay, and Rod Reeves. Sundays in the South: Touring West Orange County. Winter Garden, FL: Winter Garden Heritage Foundation, 2009.
"Welcome." City of Winter Garden. http://www.cwgdn.com/.
Winter Garden Heritage Foundation. All Aboard!: A Journey Through Historic Winter Garden, 1880-1950. Winter Garden, FL: The Foundation, 1997.
Transcript
EDGEWATER HOTEL
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
1 color digital image
Collection
Citation
“Edgewater Hotel,” RICHES, accessed May 15, 2024, https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/4164.