The $76 million Lake House Apartment building that's being erected on the north shore of Lake Ivanhoe capped out last week and is expected to be ready for pre-leasing activities early this summer and the 4,100 SF...
SPONSORED: The Orange County Regional History Center's popular Retro Game Night event will return at 7 p.m. Friday, March 29 at their downtown location.
Event-goers will be able to play treasured games from...
The owners of the historic Angebilt building in Downtown Orlando have made the decision to sell to new owners.
The Angebilt Hotel, located at 37 N. Orange Avenue , opened in 1923 and was at one time the city's tallest...
The City of Orlando Historic Preservation Board has released their latest calendar in an ongoing series that celebrates Orlando’s treasured landmarks and National Register properties and sponsored by McCoy Federal Credit Union.
Each year’s calendar features photographs by Orlando residents...
In October 1912, Buffalo Bill's circus visited Orlando.
Bill's oldest, and subsequently largest, buffalo took it upon himself to run away from the circus and meander his way along Orange Avenue.
A group of "punchers," or cattle prodders that totally ushered the buffalo from...
The LGBT+ Center (Website) has undergone a recent renovation of their home in the Mills 50 District.
The renovation has resulted in the dedication of a wall space for a permanent LGBTQ history installation, managed by the LGBTQ History Museum...
The City of Orlando's Historic Preservation Board is looking for a few good photographers to submit photos of the "built historic streetscape and landscape enhancements in the city to feature in its 2019 calendar."
The annual search for photographers is...
The City of Orlando's Pottery Studio (Website) has been open since 1968, tucked away in a corner of the Downtown Recreation Complex - where they recently lost their shed for the construction of a new road.
The Orange County Regional...
"My neighbors keep telling me about the Beeman Bubblegum House in my neighborhood. It looks like an old dollhouse in Audubon Park. What’s the story behind this house? Thanks for
all you do!" - Jenny
Edwin Beeman, the "Chewing Gum King"...
This Facebook Live video originally aired on our @OrlandoBungalower Facebook Page on October 30.
Orlando's Sexton, Don Price, took us on a guided tour of the City's only public graveyard; Greenwood Cemetery.
We learned a lot so we had to share.
This 20-minute promotional video was created roughly 60 years ago to attract tourists to the City Beautiful and was originally published by Daniel Piraino to YouTube in 2016.
It was created by the Orlando Chamber of Commerce and entitled, The...
The City of Orlando Historic Preservation Board has released their latest calendar in a series that celebrates Orlando's treasured landmarks and National Register properties. This most recent edition of the annual undertaking takes an appreciative look at Orlando's mid-century...
Angela Lansbury in Murder She Wrote
History in a Glass (Website) is the Orange County Regional History's version of Drunk History, except in the Orlando version we get to be the ones drinking.
The third installment of the craft cocktail-meets-history class event series...
EDIT: The photo referred to in this post are actually, reportedly, stored in the Washington and Lee University Art Collection. The photos submitted to us were sent to us via the Orange County Regional History Center.
At 10 a.m. on...
UPDATE: This listing has since been removed due to an "overwhelmingly high volume of inquiries." The listing agent was unable to respond to our phone calls prior to this posting.
A multi-family housing development on the northern shore of Lake...
This educational short film of Orlando in the '60s was brought to our attention by Rhett Withey, one of the featured artists in the Mennello Museum's Our Orlando exhibit and co-creator of the "Love Orlando" orange design in our online shop, HERE.
The...
The City of Orlando will install a Florida Historical Marker at the site of the former home of past Nobel Peace Prize-winner John Raleigh Mott. The home was torn down in 2013 to expand Lake Eola Park.
Four historic homes were...
Filmmaker Luiz Fernando Schultz documented the late-night bar scene in 90s Orlando, firsthand, and it was screened at the Florida Film Festival in 1998. It follows local DJ Remark (Mark Snyder), during a nostalgic time in Orlando's dance music...
Townie Tourist (Facebook | Website) is a weekly series of tours, hosted by Orlando-native Jenny De Witt. De Witt takes viewers on a walking tour of a different neighborhood each Saturday at 10 a.m. and broadcasts it using Facebook...
The Downtown Development Board is hosting a walking tour to highlight historic points of interest in Downtown Orlando on Thursday, March 2.
The 45-minute walking tour will feature multiple guest speakers, including Michael Perkins, Executive Director of the Historical Society...
"Hey Brendan, wanna report on OCPS voting to rename Lee Middle to College Park middle so as to not be named after a racist?" - Brad
The School Advisory Council of Robert E. Lee Middle School voted to change the...
The owner of a home near Dubsdread Golf-course has applied to the City of Orlando to designate the property as an Orlando Historic Landmark.
The property, located at 3206 Greens Avenue , was built in 1935 and designed by local...
Rendering by Process Architecture
An unnamed developer has filed a petition to the Historic Preservation Board to rehabilitate the facade of the 41 West Church Street building in Downtown Orlando .
The building was once the home of the Dubliner and...
This story was originally written by orlandoretro.com and is a part of an ongoing partnership with Bungalower to educate and familiarize Orlando residents with important local historic landmarks.
By Steve Herring
To start a new series of 2016 posts here is a look at recent...
In September we wrote about the historic Hanson Building being for sale, HERE, and now we are reporting that the space has been purchased by local realtor Dustin Bowersett. The same Dustin Bowersett that ran for Soil and Water...