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This Cottage was built in 1895.

    This is a historic Seaboard Airline Railroad station in Naples, Florida.  It is located at 1051 5th Avenue South.  It was built in 1927.  Architect was L. Phillips Clarke.  The depot was constructed for Seaboard Air Line Rail Roard.  Its style is Mediterranean Revival.    This is the same style as that which was also used in the Seaboard stations in Delray Beach, Hialeah, and Homestead.

   The station only had passenger service briefly in the late 1920’s.  The Naples railroad line became freight only in 1933.  Seaboard ended freight on the line in 1940’s.

     The depot was used by the USO during World War 2.  It serviced troops from nearby Naples airfield.

    In 1944, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad bought the depot building and the Seaboard tracks to Naples.  This was after Seaboard discontinued service.  The Atlantic Coast Line connected the Seaboard tracks to their Fort Myers southern branch.  Passenger service was resumed.    Ironically, this was a station operated by the Seaboard Airline Railroad and the Atlantic Coastal Railroad at different times.   The Atlantic Coast Line had a previous depot in Naples located at the northeast corner of Radio Road and Airport Pulling Road near the Naples Are report.  This was demolished in the 1970’s.

     The Seaboard Name returned to the depot in 1967 when the Atlantic Coast Line merged with Seaboard Airline as the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad.

     Passenger service to the depot ended in 1971 when national passenger rail was taken over by Amtrak.

     The Naples Depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in September, 1974.

     Freight service on the Naples line ended in the late 1970’s

   The station building has been restored by Collier County Museums.  It is operated  as the Naples Depot Museum.  Its focus is the history of transportation and and in southwest Florida.

    Vintage railroad cars are on display outside the museum.

This Hotel was built by developer Peter Tonnelier. He built three other hotels and several commercial buildings and Tonnelier Court ( aka Patio de Leon). The hotel is at the entrance of the court. The hotel was built 1916. It was built to replace the Hotel Michigan which was destroyed two years earlier in a fire.

When it opened, the Greystone’s upper floors were used as a hotel. First floor served a variety of uses including original location of a county bank

     The Punta Gorda City Hall is located at 326 West Marion Avenue.  It opened in 1927.   It was replacement for an older building.  The architect was J.A. Stamm.  The building had a brick facade.  The front featured fluted Corinthian Columns.  In the past, the back of the structure  has a 2 bay fire station.

     The historical marker for the Punta Gorda Bank is located at the Tamiami Trail just north of West Marion  Avenue, Porta Gorda, Florida.

     In June 1894, the Punta Gorda Bank was a branch the State Bank Fort Meade.  In July, 1899, it was chartered by the state of Florida as a separate bank.  Its initial capital was $15,000.  The President of the Bank was Percy Wandsworth marrow.  He was a former resident of Montana who owned his fortune in gold mining.  The bank building was a one story building with brick facade.  Businesses near the bank included Earnest Dry Goods, Punta Gorda Trading Company,Wades Drug Store,and a community social hall McAdow Hall.

     By December 1912, bank’s assets totaled $147,200.  In April 1912, a competing bank Merchant Bank opened  in Punta Gorda.

     The Punta Gorda Bank had a troubled history.    In April 23 ,1917 the bank was reorganized as  State Bank of Punta Gorda.  The new bank assumed the assets and liabilities of the old Punta Gorda Bank.  The new bank moved to a new building.