Winter Park Historical

Thanks to a grant from the Florida Humanities Council, an audio version of the self-guided Downtown Winter Park Walking Tour is now available. The tour was written and produced by a team of volunteers, staff and Q Media Productions, Inc.

The self-guided tour is narrated by veteran journalist, Ben Acrigg, and uses audio clips from oral histories.

The audio tour cd and cd player can be checked out from the museum along with the free brochure.

Stops include:

1. Central Park
2. Winter Park Train Station
3. Ergood's Store
4. Parkwood Building
5. Lincoln Apartments
6. Knowles Cottage
7. Osceola Lodge
8. First United Methodist
9. First Congregational
10. All Saints Episcopal
11. Original WP Library
12. Women's Club of WP
13. Colony Theater
14. Park Plaza Hotel
15. Union State Bank
16. Henkel Building
17. 202 Park Avenue South
18. Pioneer Building
19. 146 to 150 Park Avenue South
20. Earl Building and Morse Block

P.O. Box 51 • Winter Park, FL 32790 • 407•647•2330

Historic Downtown Winter Park Self-Guided Walking Tour

This self-guided walking tour is meant to be a brief introduction to the beautiful community known as Winter Park. It was most difficult to limit the tour to these few sites and their stories. There are twenty stops on the main tour with four additional sites (A-D) on the north end of Park Avenue for the more intrepid walker. (Click here to see the Walking Tour Map) Along the way, you may notice other buildings of interest, and this guide will point out a few, italicized and marked with an asterisk (*). The guide focuses on the central business district, but visitors to Winter Park may also want to tour the Mediterranean Revival style campus of Rollins College to the south. Hannibal Square, Winter Park's historically African American neighborhood to the west, and the nearby residential neighborhoods that feature a variety of vintage architectural styles. Upon completing the self-guided tour, please download and fill out the Walking Tour Evaluation Form and return it to the museum.

"With commendable zeal, the gentlemen have neglected nothing. They have had the town most advantageously platted for artistic beauty and convenience...The spot they have chosen we consider to be one of the loveliest spots in Orange County; indeed it would be hard to find anywhere a place better adapted to carrying out their idea than the one they have secured..." - South Florida Journal September 8, 1882