Joseph Wesley Young House

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Joseph Wesley Young House
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Location Hollywood, Florida
Coordinates 26°00′44″N80°07′40″W / 26.01225°N 80.12773°W / 26.01225; -80.12773
Architectural style Mission/Spanish Revival
NRHP reference No. 89001076 [1]
Added to NRHP10 August 1989

The Joseph Wesley Young House is a historic home in Hollywood, Florida. It is located at 1055 Hollywood Boulevard. It was built in 1925 and designed by the architectural firm of Rubush and Hunter. [2] On August 10, 1989, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. [3] Joseph Wesley Young Jr. (1882–1934) was a founder and developer of Hollywood, Florida. [4] He is listed as a Great Floridian.

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The house is described as looking like a "Moorish castle with two-dozen rooms". One of the "most venerable and storied mansions in Broward County", it was for sale in 2008. [5]

Joseph Wesley Young

Young was a real estate developer in Long Beach, California. [4] He was born in San Francisco. [6] He married Jessie Fay (Cooke) Young (1877–1955), a piano player and singer, in 1902. Although she was five years older than him, her lovely voice and personality captured his fancy when he moved to Long Beach in 1902. [4]

In 1914 a huge flood in Long Beach wiped out the property Young was developing. [4]

He was Hollywood, Florida's first mayor in 1925 and helped rebuild the city after a hurricane devastated it in 1926. His marketing helped bring Robert Anderson to the area. His Great Floridian plaque is at the Joseph W. Young house at 1055 Hollywood Blvd. [7]

After the end of the 1920s boom in Florida real estate he worked on developing Old Forge, in New York. He died of a heart attack on February 26, 1934, in Hollywood, Florida. [6]

References

  1. ↑ "National Register Information System – Joseph Wesley Young House (#89001076)". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. 9 July 2010.
  2. ↑ "HISTORIC PROPERTIES – broward trust for historic preservation" . Retrieved 2025-07-14.
  3. ↑ Wells, Sharon; Lee, Catherine; Mattick, Barbara E. (July 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Joseph Wesley Young House" (PDF). National Park Service.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Prologue: Before 1920". 11 November 2010.
  5. ↑ Young House Awaits a Buyer February 18, 2008 Sun Sentinel
  6. 1 2 New York Times (February 27, 1934), p. 19.
  7. ↑ leaders honored Orlando Sun Sentinel

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