Tag: College Park

Places
Albert Drug Store, Established 1939-1992
Menus from Albert Drug Store which was located at 2201 Edgewater Drive in College Park, established 1939-1992. College Park Historical Society of Orlando archives include a 1971 menu, a 1992 menu, and an advertisement for an Orlando Remembered event, Foun ... Read more
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College Park Neighborhood Association 12th Annual Historic Homes Tour, College Park Country Club, 2002
901 West Smith Street - Historic home featured in the 12th Annual Historic Homes Tour presented by The College Park Neighborhood Association.  Today's tour takes you through 1925 and 1926 subdivisions called College Park Country Club Section and Co ... Read more
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11th College Park Historic Homes Tour, Palm Terrace, 2001
Historic College Park Home at 2527 Reading Drive and Bryn Mawr Street. Photo provided by College Park Historical Society Board Member Julie Northlake. 11th College Park Historic Homes Tour, Palm Terrace, 2001 "With the opening of Palm Terrace the ... Read more
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10th College Park Historic Homes Tour - in the Shadow of Interstate 4, 2000
Almost 80 years ago, long before Interstate 4 was dreamed of, developer Walter W. Rose transformed groveland into building lots with streets he named for colleges and universities. Active in Orlando Real Estate since 1913, Rose was one of the first to rea ... Read more
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9th College Park Historic Homes Tour, in the Shadow of Interstate 4, 1999
Almost 80 years ago, long before Interstate 4 was dreamed of, developer Walter R. Rose transformed groveland into building lots with streets he named for colleges and universities. Our tour includes homes from his December 1921 Rosemere subdivision and fr ... Read more
Events
College Park Historic Homes Tour - West Lake Adair / South College Park, 1998
818 Ellwood Avenue home featured in the College Park Historic Homes Tour, West Lake Adair/South College Park - Nov. 22, 1998. Photo provided by College Park Historical Society Board Member Julie Northlake. In the 1910's and 20's the area north of Co ... Read more
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College Park Historic Homes Tour North From Lake Adair, November 23, 1997.
803 Lake Adair Boulevard historic home featured in the College Park Historic Homes Tour North From Lake Adair, November 23, 1997. Lake Adair reportedly got its name in 1884, when John W. Childress bought an adjacent grove and bestowed his wife's name o ... Read more
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College Park Historic Homes Tour - Shore Crest, 1996
The 1920's boom transformed groves, farms and woodlands into neatly platted small-lot subdivisions now collectively called College Park. One of the first developers to realize this area's potential was Walter W. Rose. Active in Orlando real estate sinc ... Read more
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College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee’s Lake Concord and Lake Adair Historic House Tour, December, 1993
College Park Historic Homes Tour House at 804 Alameda Drive featured in the Third Annual Historic Homes Tour sponsored by the College Park Neighborhood Association through its Historical Committee. The Lake Concord/Adair area of College Park was the su ... Read more
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College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee’s Lake Concord's Southwest Shore Historic House Tour, December, 1994
The McEwan House, 407 Peachtree Road designed by James Gamble Rogers II featured in the College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee’s Lake Concord's Southwest Shore Historic House Tour, December 4,1994. At the turn of the century, the ... Read more
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College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee’s Ivanhoe Area Historic House Tour, 1995
On the shores of Lake Ivanhoe, near where Dartmouth Street meets the lake, ground was broken Feb. 26, 1925 for the first subdivision to be called College Park (north to Princeton, west to Edgewater, east to University). The developers of this former citru ... Read more
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College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee's Ivanhoe Historic House Tour, 1992
Margaret Ark New Era Markets at Edgewater Drive and Princeton Street.  Photo provided by College Park Historical Society Board Member Julie Northlake.   College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee's Ivanhoe Historic House Tou ... Read more