Lake Lucerne is one of two primary lakes connected with the earliest days of the city of Orlando, Florida. Along with Lake Eola, it defined one of the natural borders of the young town in the 1860s and 1870s. Lake Lucerne sits at the southern end of the Downtown Orlando area. Today Orange Avenue, the main north-south street through the city, crosses the lake on a causeway which nearly divides the lake in half. The East-West Expressway passes directly to the north. The area was one of the first areas developed with houses outside the business district and continues to be one of the jewels of Orlando's park system. The postcard shows two homes, one of which (on the left) is the Dr. Phillips House which was built in 1893 and is currently on the National Register of Historic Places.
Creator
E. C. Kropp Company
Source
Original 5.5 x 3.5 inch color postcard by E. C. Kropp Company: E. C. Kropp Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Private Collection of Thomas Cook.
Publisher
E. C. Kropp Company
Date Created
ca. 1920
Date Copyrighted
ca. 1920
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 5.5 x 3.5 inch color postcard by E. C. Kropp Company: E. C. Kropp Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
LAKE LUCERNE, ORLANDO, FLA.
POST CARD
PLACE ONE CENT STAMP HERE
FIVE CENTS TO ANYWHERE IN U.S. VIA AIRMAIL
MADE IN U.S.A. BY E. C. KROPP CO., MILWAUKEE, WIS.