Florida Tropical House, 250 Lake Front Drive (moved from Chicago, IL), Beverly Shores, Porter County, IN
Summary
Significance: The Florida Tropical House is one of five houses from the Home and Industrial Arts Group moved at the end of the fair by Robert Bartlett to his lakeside subdivision at Beverly Shores, Indiana. The Florida Tropical House was the only state-sponsored building in the group and was designed to illustrate the luxuries of life in a semi-tropical climate.
Survey number: HABS IN-242
Building/structure dates: 1933 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1935
Building/structure dates: 1935 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 86001472
Tags
Date
1933 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Weed, Robert Law
Pasit & Steward
Thorsch, Marjorie
Kuhne, James S
Goodman, Percival
Location
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html