40 Years of the Parliament House

40 Years of the Parliament House

40 Years of the Parliament House

Orlando (Fla.)

Hotels--Florida

Tourism--Florida

Homosexuality--Florida

Gay culture--United States

Lesbian culture

AIDS (Disease)--Florida

HIV infections--United States

40 Years of the Parliament House is a documentary film about the history of the Parliament House, a gay resort located at 410 North Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando, Florida. The Parliament House Motor Inn chain was founded in Kansas City, Missouri, by Ned Eddy, Sr. and his two sons, Ned Eddy, Jr. and James "Jimmy" Eddy. The Orlando Parliament House was a 120-room hotel and the first motor inn established by the chain. The inn was designed by Alan Berman and was built on Orlando’s Rock Lake by Hodes and Cumming Construction. Parliament House officially opened on February 11, 1962. Ned Eddy, Jr. served as the inn manager and his brother, Jimmy Eddy, was the manager of the cocktail lounge.

With the opening of the Walt Disney World Resort in 1971, came the construction of hotels and motels on International Drive, leaving the Parliament House Motor Inn outside the tourist district. The motor inn soon became a hotspot for prostitution as the OBT area declined. By 1975, the Parliament House was near bankruptcy. On March 27, 1975, William G. Miller (d. 1987) and Michael Hodge (d. 1992) purchased the motor inn and converted it into a gay resort. A couple of years after the deaths of Bill Miller and Mike Hodge, the Parliament House was sold to Susan Unger and Don Granatstein in August of 1999. Unger and Granatstein began renovating the resort, which had been in decline since Hodge's death in 1992. Renovations were completed in 2000. The Parliament House again faced foreclosure in 2010 and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on July 25, 2014. Stakeholders approved a $14-million debt relief plan in February of 2015.

Bain, David

Original 34-minute and 24-second motion picture: 40 Years of the Parliament House: GLBT History Museum of Central Florida, Inc., 2015.

2015

2015

Strack, Joel

Hodges, Rebecca

Caladrino, Tim

Hamlisch, Marvin

Barnard, Ken

Ba'aser, Doug

Barber, John

Bebout, Vicki

Granatstein, Don

Lape, Bill

Studdard, Ron

Tilmon, Willie

Unger, Susan

Wanzie, Michael

Orlando Collection, Orange County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

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Parliament House Resort, Orlando, Florida

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Copyright to this resource is held the GLBT History Museum of Central Florida, Inc. and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.

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Bain, David