Mayfair Hotel

Mayfair Hotel

Mayfair Hotel

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The Forrest Lake Hotel during the latter half of the 1920's. Forrest Lake Hotel began in 1916. Local architect Elton J. Moughton designed the hotel. In 1925, Hotel Forrest Lake opened and became a popular destination for tourists visiting Sanford. By 1929, the hotel closed after the stock market crash and the downfall of Florida's tourism and real estate boom. William E. Kirchhoff leased the building in 1934 and the hotel reopened in 1935 with the new name Mayfair Hotel. Under Kirchhoff's ownership, the Mayfair Hotel became known as one of the finest hotels in the South. Kirchhoff sold the hotel in 1948 to Horace Stoneham, owner of the New York Giants. Stoneham then sold the building to the Bernard McFadden Foundation. After the Naval Air Station Sanford acquired $1.3 million to fund the construction of a naval academy in 1963, the Foundation made significant alterations to the building to house students from the Sanford Naval Academy. The Foundation later sold the building to the New Tribes Mission in 1977. The New Tribes Mission's goal is to reach tribes who have no access to the Gospel through translated publications and missionary work.

Original black and white photonegative: Print Collections, call number PR09741, Florida Photographic Collection, State Library and Archives of Florida, Tallahassee, Florida.

1925-1929

Digital reproduction of original black and white photonegative on Florida Memory: Print Collections, call number PR09741, Florida Photographic Collection, State Library and Archives of Florida. http://floridamemory.com/items/show/8196.

Print Collections, Florida Photographic Collection, State Library and Archives of Florida, Tallahassee, Florida.

Hotel Forrest Lake Collection, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

"Politics, Tourism, Education, Non-Profits...Oh My!." RICHES of Central Florida.

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Sanford, Florida

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1925-01-01/1929-12-31

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Copyright to this resource is held by the State Library and Archives of Florida and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.

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Sanford Historical Society (Fla.). Sanford. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2003.

Sanford Historic Preservation Board. "The Sanford Historic Preservation Board Presents the Sanford Historic Downtown Walking Tour." http://sanfordhistory.tripod.com/Links/wtour.pdf.

Seminole County Chamber of Commerce. When Winter Comes, Come to Seminole County, Sanford, Florida. Sanford, Florida: Celery City Printing Company, 1936.  Digital reproduction of original publication on the Central Florida Memory website, http://digitalcollections.lib.ucf.edu/u?/CFM,119677.

"Hotel Forrest Lake - 1925"

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