DAN SANBORN PHOTO COLLECTION

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Title:  The Lakeland Terrace Hotel

Description:  The Lakeland Terrace Hotel was Lakeland's first high rise
                     building.  It was built at a cost of $750,000 on the corner of 
                     Massachusetts Avenue and East Main Street on the site of the
                     Tremont, Lakeland's first hotel.  It opened with a gala dinner 
                     on October 20, 1924 and remained  the city's premier hotel for
                     many years.  By the 1970's, however, the Terrace had fallen on
                     hard times and had become home to a combination of 
                     long-term residents and transients. The city ordered it closed 
                     for code violations in late 1986. It remained closed for 12 years,
                     looming like some dark presence over the city's downtown.  
                     Lakeland native Rob Scharar purchased the rundown hotel and,                      after 3 years and $7 million in renovations, reopened the 
                     beautifully restored Lakeland Terrace Hotel on February 26, 
                     1999.       

Date:  1939

Photographer:  Dan Sanborn

Subjects:   Architecture--Buildings--Hotels
                  Lakeland, FL--Buildings--Hotels
                  Lakeland, FL--Lakeland Terrace Hotel

Collection:  Dan Sanborn Photo Collection, P720

Format:  The master image is a 400ppi. tiff file.

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