Orange Court Hotel

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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