PICO Hotel

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Dublin Core

Title

PICO Hotel

Alternative Title

PICO Hotel

Subject

Hotels--Florida
Tourism--Florida
Architecture, Turkish
Plant, Henry Bradley, 1819-1899
Buildings--Florida
Sanford (Fla.)

Description

PICO Hotel, located at 209 North Oak Avenue in Sanford, Florida, was built in 1887 for Henry Bradley Plant, President of the Plant Investment Company (PICO). The onion-shaped dome located on the southwest corner of the roof resembled a Turkish minaret. The dome was destroyed by a severe thunderstorm in the 1950s and was never replaced. The PICO Hotel served as the terminal hotel for a railroad and two steamship lines owned by Henry Plant. President Calvin Coolidge spent the night at the PICO Hotel during his visit to Sanford.

Creator

Smith, Austin

Source

Original color digital images by Austin Smith, December 19, 2010.

Date Created

2010-12-19

Is Part Of

Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

Format

image/jpeg

Extent

271 KB
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Medium

7 color digital images

Language

eng

Type

Still Image

Coverage

PICO Hotel, Sanford, Florida

Accrual Method

Item Creation

Mediator

History Teacher
Economics Teacher
Geography Teacher
Humanities Teacher

Provenance

Originally created by Austin Smith and owned by RICHES of Central Florida.

Contributing Project

Curator

Smith, Austin
Vickers, Savannah

Digital Collection

Source Repository

External Reference

Sammons, Sandra Wallus. The Two Henrys: Henry Plant and Henry Flagler and Their Railroads. Sarasota, Florida: Pineapple Press, Inc., 2010.
Sanford Historical Society, Inc. Sanford. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2003.
Sanford Historic Preservation Board. "Pico Hotel, Restaurant, and Stores - 1887." City of Sanford, Florida. 2009.
Donaldson, Mary B., Charles Hammack, and Lenore Hammack, eds. 1999. Memories of Historic Sanford: Past and Present. Sanford FL: Sanford Historic Trust.

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

1 color digital image

Collection

Citation

Smith, Austin, “PICO Hotel,” RICHES, accessed November 16, 2024, https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/758.

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