NEW BUILDINGS

To accommodate the increasing number of tourists, the Granville was built on the corner of Euclid Avenue and Main Street. It is owned by Mrs. Starkweather, but not kept open as a hotel. In those days the coast resorts were not known and the Harlan and the Granville were full every winter, people sleeping on cots. In the summer of 1886 S. H. Cady and Company started a store at the corner of Lakeview Avenue and Garden Street. Two years later, it became the property of Charles B. Pelton. Mr. Baker and Mr. Pelton were the proprietors of the South Florida Nurseries with a branch in DeLand. The soil at Lake Helen is adapted to gardening and the temperature several degrees warmer than in many places in the vicinity. Dr. J. C. Mills had a photographer's studio, as well as a drug store. John R. Mace, architect and builder designed and erected many of the artistic cottages that appeared here and there among the trees. Some were built by John K. Hazel. Near the head of Lakeview Avenue on the east was the home of Arthur Pelton. On the west side overlooking the lake were the houses belonging to Mrs Andrews, B. H. Wright, Dr. J. C. Mills, Samuel Currier and Albert Baker, beyond the stores, that of C. B. Pelton. On North Euclid Avenue were the residences of F. E. Nettleton, D. W. Bowman, E. F. Gould, now belonging to Maynard M. Bond and J.P. Mace's handsome home "Edgewood." Col. U. G. Shoonmaker, founder of Elmhurst, Pennsylvania had a cottage on Connecticut Avenue and W. L. Weaver, one on Pennsylvania Avenue. "Bellevue", the attractive Westlake home, was built on the old Prevatt place east of the Lake.

Excerpt from, The Story of DeLand and Lake Helen, Florida.

Written by, Helen Parce DeLand.