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Fort lauderdale Cruises!
Fort Lauderdale Boat Tours and Fort Lauderdale Attractions!
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The Stranahan House
Our boat tour shows you what you will never see from the main roads but there is much to see in Fort Lauderdale!
A guided tour of Fort Lauderdale's Historic Stranahan House Museum is like a journey through time... a link to a time when Seminole Indians made friends with a young Ohioan who settled in the frontier town now known as Fort Lauderdale.
Imagine young Frank Stranahan winning the hand of Miss Ivy Cromartie, the town's first teacher, and building her a home so charming and enduring it survives today as a unique museum. The Stranahan House, with its Florida vernacular style, has served as a trading post, town hall, post office and bank. Restored to its 1913 configuration, it's a "must see" in South Florida.
This April, join Alice and her friends for tea at the 3rd Annual Mad Hatter's Tea Party, Saturday, April 16, 2011, 11:30am – 1:30pm. An occasion to bring your favorite mom, grandma, niece, aunt or beloved friend to savor a plethora of finer sandwiches, cookies and cakes while sipping tea under the canopy and enjoying the music and conversation on the Historic Stranahan House Estate. A wonderful memory in the making!
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The Stranahan House, one of Fort Lauderdale attractions!
The boat tour takes you by one of Fort Lauderdale's attractions - The Stranahan House which stands on its original location at the New River in downtown Fort Lauderdale. It has been the site most closely associated with the founding of the City and its economic and social development. Frank Stranahan originally selected the site because it was where he operated his barge ferry across the river as part of the new road from Lantana to what is now North Miami.
Today, Stranahan House is the eastern anchor of River Walk, a linear waterfront park connecting Fort Lauderdale's historic district with the soon to be created cultural district anchored by the Performing Arts Center and the Museum of Discovery and Science.
Built as a trading post for settlers and the Seminole Indians in 1901, it quickly evolved into the post office, community center and town hall as Frank became Fort Lauderdale's first postmaster, a banker and businessman. He married another pioneer, Ivy Julia Cromartie, the area's first school teacher, and it was not long before dances and community festivals were held on the upper floor of the house. In 1906, it became the Stranahan's personal residence and remained so until Ivy Stranahan's death in 1971.
Following Frank's suicide during the depression, Ivy leased the first floor of the house to outsiders for use as a restaurant, while she continued to live upstairs. In 1973, the house was named to the National Register of Historic Places. In 1979, the restaurant closed and the Fort Lauderdale Historical Society took possession. After a thorough restoration, Stranahan House, Inc. was incorporated in 1981 to preserve and manage the property.
The structure, built of Dade County pine, is an excellent example of Florida vernacular architecture in a tropical wilderness setting. Expanded and renovated numerous times, it presently represents its 1913-1915 configuration. At that time the Stranahan's home had electric wiring, indoor plumbing and running water, interior stairways, bay windows and wide porches. All woodwork, flooring and paneling have been refinished and the exterior repainted in the original white with green trim. A new roof, a prototype for other historical properties, was completed in 1996 and meets current hurricane specifications. Although many of the original furnishings were sold or given away over the years, the house is furnished with fine examples of period Victorian furniture and decorative pieces.
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