Hotel Mayfair

Hotel Mayfair

Hotel Mayfair Postcard

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Postcard showing the Mayfair Hotel in 1944. Originally named after the Sanford Mayor and president of Seminole County Bank, construction of the 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 who later sold it to the New Tribes Mission. The New Tribes Mission's goal is to reach tribes who have no access to the Gospel through translated publications and missionary work.

Kirchoff, Arthur A.

Original 9 x 14 centinmeter color postcard by Arthur A. Kirchoff: Postcard Collection, call number PC3069, Florida Photographic Collection, State Library and Archives of Florida, Tallahassee, Florida.

1944

1944

Digital reproduction of original 9 x 14 centimeter color postcard by Arthur A. Kirchoff on the Florida Memory Project: call number PC3069, Postcard Collection, Florida Photographic Collection, State Library and Archives of Florida.

Postcard Collection, 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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9 x 14 centimeter color postcard

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Sanford, Florida

28.811748, -81.257222

1944-01-01/1944-12-31

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SS.K.A.1.2; SS.1.A.1.1; SS.2.A.1.1; SS.3.A.1.1; SS.3.G.2.6; SS.4.A.1.1; SS.4.A.7.3; SS.5.A.1.1; SS.6.W.1.3; SS.8.A.1.5; SS.912.A.1.1; SS.912.A.6.15; SS.912.G.1.2; SS.912.W.1.3

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Originally created by Arthur A. Kirchoff.

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.

Cepero, Laura

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.

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,119661.

"Hotel Forrest Lake - 1925"

HOTEL MAYFAIR, SANFORD, FLORIDA
COPYRIGHTED, ARTHUR A. KIRCHHOFF, 1944

1 color postcard

9 x 14 centimeter