Old Mayo Free Press Building

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Old Mayo Free Press Building
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Town or city Mayo, Florida
Country United States
Coordinates 30°03′12″N83°10′31″W / 30.053359°N 83.175165°W / 30.053359; -83.175165 Coordinates: 30°03′12″N83°10′31″W / 30.053359°N 83.175165°W / 30.053359; -83.175165
Completed 1888

The Old Mayo Free Press Building, built in 1888 to house the Mayo Free Press newspaper, is an historic 20x40-foot wooden frame building located at 124 Fletcher Street, North (State Road 51) in Mayo, Florida. In 1989, it was listed in A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture prepared by the Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects and published by the University of Florida Press. [1]

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The Mayo Free Press later moved to a brick office building on the corner of San Pedro and Main street, which had been built in 1916 to house a drug store. [1] The Mayo Free Press is now part of the Suwannee Democrat. [2]

In the 1980s the Old Mayo Free Press Building housed Granny's Country Store'. [1] Today a sign on its front door proclaims that it is Le Chateau de Lafayette's House of Lydia. It is just south of the Old Lafayette County Courthouse which was moved to its present site around 1908 and now houses a bed and breakfast called Le Chateau de Lafayette.

Old Lafayette County Courthouse

The Old Lafayette County Courthouse, built 1893-1894, is an historic former courthouse building located on State Road 51 at 136 Fletcher Avenue, North, corner of Bloxham Street in Mayo, Florida, It was Lafayette County's second courthouse, the first at New Troy having burned down New Year's Eve 1892. It was built on the courthouse square in Mayo but was moved across the street to make way for a fireproof building, the present Lafayette County Courthouse. A two-story verandah was added on 3 sides after it was moved. In 1989, the Old Lafayette County Courthouse was listed in A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture, published by the University of Florida Press. Today it is an inn called the Chateau.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture, 1989, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, p. 47, ISBN   0-8130-0941-3
  2. Suwannee Democrat homepage