Altamonte Springs 1892 Plat Map
Altamonte Land Hotel & Navigation Company
Surveyed by M. B. Given
Revised and Platted by Otto Fries, 1892
Modern elements are shown in yellow for reference points.
Typed over hard-to-read words of the original, like street names.
Some text elements are enlarged or enhanced, like the Hotel and Spring.
The Altamonte Hotel, once at the corner of today’s SR 434 and Maitland Ave, was destroyed by fire in 1954
The street car line ran from the train depot to the hotel. It was known as the Dixie Flyer. Here is an article with more history about the Altamonte Springs street car line.
Altamonte Avenue ran between the train station and the hotel. It stopped there. It was notably lined with pine stately trees for much of its existence, which could still be seen by early aerial photos.
There was no road past that point going east. Headed west, you took Apopka Road, a dirt trail that ran through today’s Altamonte Mall and past Crane’s Roost.
For the history of Crane’s Roost Park, read this article.
Three houses still exist from this era that were in the area of this map. The Bradlee-McIntyre House was on the northwest corner of the hotel lot. The Inside-Outside House was on Boston Street near the banks of Lake Orienta. Both were moved to Historic Longwood in 1973. They are open to the public.
The third is the Bates-Vanmen House, located on the east side of Maitland Avenue, just across from the hotel. It is still there and operates as an office building.