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At the time this photo was taken, Mrs. Johnson lived half-a-block from Warner Chapel on Comstock Avenue. The two story home was built by her father after moving to Winter Park in the late 1920s from North Florida. When Mrs. Johnson was a child she…

The secretary of the Ideal Woman's Club in 1994, Mrs. Blue is also the sister of Ernestine Ingram.

The president of the Ideal Woman's Club was also a member of Ward Chapel in 1995. Prior to its closing in the mid 1980s, Mrs. Ingram worked for 27 years as a sales person at Leedy's Dress Shop on Park Avenue South in downtown Winter Park. A lifelong…

Formerly the parsonage of the First Congregational Church, the building was given to the Ideal Woman's Club and moved. This building was torn down in 1996.

Born in Winter Park, she recently retired from 36 years of service as a public school teacher. Except for her college years and a brief teaching position in Sarasota, she has lived in the same Winter Park neighborhood all of her life. Growing up in…

Formerly used as a separate Church, the building is now used as the dining room annex of the Flowers Temple Church of God and Christ.

Reverend M.L. Hawkins and Mrs. Allie Johnson are standing in front of Warner Chapel, located at 734 West Comstock Avenue. Mrs. Johnson's father was instrumental in the building of the wooden church in the early 1930s. She has worshiped and…

The church was organized in 1887 by Reverend and Mrs. Charles Ambrose. The building was erected at the corner of Pennsylvania and Lyman Avenues in 1892. With close to 400 active parishioners, Mt. Moriah represents the oldest and one of the largest…

The A.M.E. Church was founded in 1893 and remodeled in 1930. Reverend R.G. Heastie is pastor of the
159 South Pennsylvania Avenue church.

The 271 Capen Avenue church was constructed in 1935 and rebuilt in 1953. Reverend John Phillips tended to one of Winter Park's smaller congregations at the time this image was taken.

Newspaper article about the cheese giveaway presented by the US Department of Agriculture at the Winter Park Community Center as a method of reducing the surplus of cheese purchased from dairy farms.

Newspaper clipping about shopping on Park Avenue in preparation for the Christmas season.