Friday, March 14, 2008

The Orlando Weekly spotlights our project

In this week's edition, the Orlando Weekly takes a look at our effort to chronicle Lake Eola Heights' past before time runs out.

In 1913, writer Billy Manes (who lived in the neighborhood) points out, Lake Eola Heights consisted of a sparse sprinkling of mid-sized homes and a shelter for tuberculosis sufferers. There was a housing boom in the Roaring ’20s that produced many of the historic homes that characterize the neighborhood today.

Read the article here.