The Bradlee-McIntyre House is a Victorian Cottage Style house. It is now located in Longwood, Florida at 130 West Warren Avenue, after being moved there from Altamonte Springs . On March 28, 1991, the house was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places .
7-592: The Bradlee-McIntyre House was built circa 1885 for noted Boston architect Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee and family. It is the only surviving "cottage" in Orange and Seminole counties, a Queen Anne Style three-story, 13-room winter vacation house featuring an octagonal tower and "ginger-bread" trim typical of the flamboyant houses of the Victorian Period. Currently the Bradlee-McIntyre House
14-688: A coalition called the City Conservation League to try to save the old building — one of the few survivors of the Great Boston Fire of 1872 — but it made way for a low modern brick structure that sits there today as Macy's. Some outraged customers cut up their credit cards in protest of the demolition. These protests and preservationist grassroots efforts led to the creation of the Boston Landmarks Commission. He built for Royal Robbins of Waltham Watch Co.
21-469: A train from Boston to Keene , New Hampshire . His papers are archived in the Boston Athenæum . Bradlee's early 1860s Jordan Marsh department store, an ornate brownstone edifice with a landmark corner clock tower in what is now known as Boston's Downtown Crossing , sparked a major historic preservation movement in the city when it was torn down in 1975. Local architect Leslie Larson had founded
28-664: Is now known as the Bradlee-McIntyre House (built 1885), probably the best example of Victorian Cottage Style architecture in Central Florida . In 1885, Henry Herman Westinghouse, younger brother of George Westinghouse , built a nearby house whose plan was a mirror image of the Bradlee-McIntyre House. Westinghouse also had Bradlee design homes of 12 to 15 rooms near Boston Avenue in town. Bradlee died unexpectedly in Bellows Falls , Vermont while on
35-560: Is open to the public for tours on scheduled days as posted at the house. Museum tours are offered the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays and Sundays from 1-4 pm. This article about a property in Seminole County, Florida on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee (June 1, 1829 – December 17, 1888)
42-537: Was a Boston architect and a partner in the firm of Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell . Bradlee was born in Boston to Elizabeth Davis and Samuel Bradlee. He married Julia Rebecca Weld on April 17, 1855. Their children were Joseph Williams Bradlee, Caroline Lousia Bradlee, Elizabeth Lydia Bradlee, Eleanor Collamore Bradlee, and Hellen Curtis Bradlee. Bradlee designed many of the townhouses in Boston's South End , and
49-728: Was president of the Cochituate Water Board. The Bradlee Basin at the Chestnut Hill Reservoir , Newton, Massachusetts , completed in 1870, was named in his honor. In 1876 , Bradlee ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Boston. From 1866 to 1896, his family lived in the Alvah Kittredge House , a Greek Revival mansion (built 1836) at 10 Linwood Street, Roxbury, Massachusetts . He vacationed in Altamonte Springs , Florida in what
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