Seminole Hotel, Punta Gorda, Florida
Description Built in 1887 as the Dade Hotel and later called the New
Southland, in 1914 re-named by * Nathanial Thomas Ragland ,the 22-room inn became the Seminole Hotel.
Albert W. Gilchrist, governor of Florida, lived here for many years. Shown here on
its original site at the corner of Marion Avenue and Taylor Street.
In 1920 after GD sold it, the building was placed on logs and rolled one block west to the
corner of Marion and Sullivan Street. It was later lost to fire.
This photo is a little out of the time period. It was taken when My Grandfather & Grandmother owned it form 1914-19.
I have an orginial post card, it shows Teddy Roosevelt & Gov. Gilchrist in my Grandfather's 1916-17 Jordan Automobile, with my Grandparents background .
Roosevelt stayed several times at the Hotel when he and Gov. Gilchrist fished together the Ten Thousand Islands.
I'll post that photo later it's on my work computer.
* N.T. Ragland was my Grandfather.