Dear Winter Park History Museum Friend, It's 1940, the year the Colony Theatre opens on Park Avenue featuring a new "air cooled" system...

by Dorothy Shepherd Smith Grab your fan It's summer in Winter Park 1920s style when the Isle of Sicily was known as "Woo Island" and you...

by Dorothy Shepherd Smith We lived in a large two-story white frame house on the present site of the Langford Hotel.* In the early days...

By the 1880s, Central Florida boasts thousands of acres of "liquid gold''- citrus. It's the tasty fruit that contains an essential...

A LOOK BACK AT PARK AVENUE 1940-1974 There was a time when you could enjoy a quick hamburger, grilled cheese sandwich, milkshake, or...

Opening in 1945, Miller’s is our town’s oldest family-owned business. For three generations, Miller’s credo has been “service, service,...

Our dear friend, a founder of the Winter Park History Museum and our first Association Director, Eleanor Fisher, lived 99 incredible...

The building was non-descript, but if you were a child during the 1930s-1960s, before the profusion of shopping malls, wandering the...

Jack was chosen as Winter Park History Museum's 2021 History Honoree. We celebrate his contributions documenting and preserving the...

These colorful Sunbonnet Babies are illustrations from children's books written by Winter Park resident Eulalie Osgood Grover. Eulalie,...

This photo of Carol Anderson is from the Sage Collection, courtesy of Peter Schreyer. We are celebrating the transition between Black...

What are they doing behind the French doors of the cozy yellow building on Interlachen? The Woman’s Club of Winter Park (WCWP) traces...

During Winter Park's development in the 1880s, town roads are surfaced from any available, workable material. Some streets are originally...

Credit: Winter Park History Museum Archives Jack tells the tale of this beautiful Victorian dormitory, the oldest original building on...

Prosperity abounds across the country, as well as in Winter Park. Downtown Winter Park, c. 1920s 1922 Winter Park News Construction of...

Just after the Civil War tourists discover the dazzling artesian springs south of Gainesville. By the late 1800s, Silver Springs becomes...

Both the pen-and-ink Carpenter Gothic church series and the oil painting of Greeneda Court are by artist Carol Wilson. Carol was a...

A few months ago, WPHM featured a nostalgic article about family trips to Silver Springs. It was brought to our attention that there was...

Our recently opened exhibition “Retailing Our Story” The Bistros, Boutiques and Businesses of Winter Park is the story of the past 100...

Many of you will remember the fun and food of the Villa Nova which opened in 1948 and brought classic dining and New York style...