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Daytona Beach, Florida, circa 1910. "Hotel Ridgewood and Ridgewood Avenue." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
There will be thousands of Harleys on Ridgewood beginning March 1.
Love the Spanish Moss.
Not so much the horse pucky. The previous century's exhaust pollution.
Designed by Nutmeg State solon-turned-architect Sumner Hale Grove, the Ridgewood started out as an eclectic wood structure
before receiving an annex, in a contrasting style, in 1911 (at the right of the main picture) A coquina veneer in 1912 tied them together. The original portion burned in 1932 - Who'd have guessed? - but the annex continued on until 1975.
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