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| Location | Winter Garden, Florida |
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| Coordinates | 28°33′28″N81°36′37″W / 28.55778°N 81.61028°W Coordinates: 28°33′28″N81°36′37″W / 28.55778°N 81.61028°W |
| Area | 12 acres (4.9 ha) |
| Built | 1878 [1] [2] |
| Architect | F.H. Trimble [1] |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival [1] |
| NRHP reference # | 96001337 [1] [2] |
| Added to NRHP | November 15, 1996 |
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Meadow Marsh, which has also been known as the Luther F. Tilden House and as the Luther W. Tilden House, is a historic home in Winter Garden, Florida, United States that is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). It is located at 940 Tildenville School Road. The neighborhood it is located in is known as Tildenville, an unincorporated village.
Winter Garden is a city located 14 miles (23 km) west of downtown Orlando in western Orange County, Florida, United States. It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. Winter Garden's population as of 2017 was 43,536.
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The house is a Classical Revival style house that was a work of Frederick H. Trimble. Trimble is also credited with design of NRHP-listed Fellsmere Public School in Fellsmere, Florida and the NRHP-listed Vero Theatre in Vero Beach, Florida. [2]
Frederick H. Trimble was an American architect in Central Florida from the early 1900s through the 1920s. He worked in the Colonial Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival and Prairie Style.
The Fellsmere Public School is a historic school in Fellsmere, Florida. It is located at 22 South Orange Street. On November 22, 1996, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
The Vero Theatre is a historic theater in Vero Beach, Florida. Located at 2036 14th Avenue, the Vero Theatre was designed in the Mediterranean Revival style by architect F.H. Trimble. It opened on October 14, 1924 as the city's first motion picture theater with its first feature film being the Hunchback of Notre Dame. The theatre became the center of the fight to remove Indian River from St. Lucie County as a result of local blue laws prohibiting Sunday film viewing. Governor John W. Martin created Indian River County in the theatre in May 1925. On April 28, 1992, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The Theatre closed in 1985 when other multiplex theatres opened nearby. The last film shown was Desperately Seeking Susan.
It was listed on the NRHP as Luther F. Tilden House in 1996. The listing included four contributing buildings on 12 acres (4.9 ha). [2]
According to a historic site webpage, it was built by Luther Willis Tilden, the son of Luther Fuller Tilden. [3]
Luther Tilden was a pioneer in citrus cultivation in Florida. [4]
