New River Inn at 229 SW 2nd Ave. in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Title

• New River Inn at 229 SW 2nd Ave. in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Image Number

• COM08583

Year

• Not before 1972

Series Title

• General: Department of Commerce collection.
• Specific: Department of Commerce collection Series/Collection number: S 1047, Publicity photographs, 1940-1996 ; Box 3, FF39

General Note

• Opened in 1905 as one of Fort Lauderdale's earliest hotels. Also known as City Hall Annex, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 19, 1972.



General Note

• A nearby historical marker reads, "Old Fort Lauderdale Village at the intersection of the New River and the Florida East Coast Railway (F.E.C.) incorporates four turn-of-the-20th century historic buildings. These include the 1905 New River Inn, the 1905 Philemon N. Bryan House, the 1905 Acetylene Building, and the 1907 King Cromartie House. The New River Inn houses a Museum of History and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built for Philemon N. Bryan from hollow concrete block made on site. Bryan, a grove owner, storekeeper, and former mayor of New Smyrna, was ruined by the great Florida freeze of 1894-95. F.E.C. owner Henry Flagler (1830-1913) asked Bryan to build the railway section from the New River to Pompano. In 1894, Philemon, with his two sons Tom and Reed, brought 400 African-American workers by boat from New Smyrna to build the roadbed. The first train to Miami reached Fort Lauderdale on February 22, 1896. Philemon and his sons acquired land on either side of the railway tracks in what later became downtown Fort Lauderdale. In 1905, Contractor Edwin T. King built the Inn, the Philemon Bryan House and the nearby Tom and Reed Bryan houses, thereby creating the first Fort Lauderdale residential neighborhood."

Creator

• Florida. - Department of Commerce. - Motion Picture and Television Bureau

Physical Description

• 1 slide - col.

Subject Term

• Architecture--Florida--Fort Lauderdale
• Hospitality industry--Florida--Fort Lauderdale
• Historic buildings--Florida--Fort Lauderdale
• Publicity
• Hotels--Florida--Fort Lauderdale

Geographic Term

• Broward County (Fla.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
• Fort Lauderdale (Fla.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
• 229 Southwest Second Avenue (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)

Subject Corporate

• National Register of Historic Places.
• New River Inn (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)

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