The Orange Court Hotel was a historic Spanish Revival Orlando hotel constructed in 1924. It was demolished in 1990. The hotel features on historic postcards and is depicted in a mural in downtown Orlando. It was located at 650 North Orange Avenue. G.A. Miller of Tampa constructed the building on a design by architect G. Lloyd Preacher of Atlanta. The hotel had 275 rooms, vine-covered balconies around a Spanish garden with more than 500 varieties of tropical plants, and a small orange grove where guests could pick fruit. The hotel was one of the first in Orlando with a steam-heated swimming pool.[1]

The hotel closed in 1960 but reopened in 1962. It was put up for sale in 1985 for $5.5 million, and at the time it hosted both permanent residents and nightly guests.[2] The owners could not find a buyer and ended up evicting all of the tenants in November 1989.[3] The hotel site was finally sold in 1997 for $2.38 million.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Steve Rajtar page 154 A Guide to Historic Orlando
  2. ↑ Snyder, Jack (April 3, 1985). "Old Orange Court Hotel up for sale".
  3. ↑ Marshall, S. Renee (November 30, 1989). "It's checkout time for hotel residents".
  4. ↑ Snyder, Jack (December 20, 1997). "New Life for Historic Site?".

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