Orlando 1922

Amherst Apartments

325 West Colonial Drive

Constructed: 1921-1922

Demolished: 1986

Architect: Ida Ryan

Style: Prairie Style

Businesses: Amherst Apartments - 47 individual apartments

Notes: The Amherst was the finest apartment complex of its day. It fronted on Colonial Drive and faced Lake Concord on the back.

Current use of site: Several retail buildings including the now-vacant "Fanattic" a clothing and collectible store focusing on the Orlando Magic NBA team.

ABOVE: Amherst Apartments circa 1935, from a contemporary postcard.

 

Memorial High School

151 East Washington

Constructed: 1922

Dedicated: December 3, 1922

Demolished: 1961

Constructed by: J. C. Hanner

Original Owner: Orange County

Style: Spanish Colonial Revival

Businesses: (1922-1925) Memorial High School, (1925-1958) Orlando City Hall, (1961) sold to Roland M. Mumford, president of the Meyer Hotel of Jacksonville for $400,077.77.

Current use of site: The Sheraton Four Points Hotel

ABOVE: Memorial High School circa 1926, from a contemporary postcard.

Notes: Named Memorial High School in honor of the "Orange County Boys who gave their lives in the World War."

Angebilt Hotel

37 North Orange Avenue

Constructed:  1921-1923, announced plans to build in June 1921, Cost $1,000,000

Opened March 14, 1923

Original Owner: Joseph Fenner Ange (moved to Orlando in 1913 from Martin Co., North Carolina and who sold his interest in the building two months after the opening.) In November 1924 a group of Orlando business men purchased the hotel for $1,250,000.

Architect:  Murray S. King (Florida’s first registered architect)

Style: 20th Century Commercial - 11 stories, 240 rooms

Businesses:  (1923-) Angebilt Hotel. (1923-) Bank of Orange and Trust Company, held the offices for two radio stations including WDBO - the first regular radio station in Orlando (WDBO was so named for the phrase "Way Down By Orlando"), currently business offices, two restaurants, and a smoothie store.

Current owner: New Angebilt Corp.

 

TOP RIGHT: Angebilt Hotel, circa 1930.  From a contemporary postcard.

BOTTOM RIGHT: Angebilt Hotel - entrance awning, 2000

BELOW LEFT: South face of the Angebilt, 2000

Read a 1915 biography of Murray S. King

The interior of the Angebilt Hotel, 2001

Looking toward the elevators. 

Looking toward the entrance.

Orlando 1922

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Written by Thomas E. Cook.

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