Angebilt Hotel, 1920s hotel building in Downtown Orlando, United States.
The Angebilt Hotel is an 11-story building at 37 North Orange Avenue in downtown Orlando, designed by architect Murray S. King and built from 1921 to 1923. It opened on March 14, 1923, with 250 rooms. Today the building holds offices, with restaurants and retail on the ground floor.
Joseph Fenner Ange announced plans in June 1920 for a $1 million hotel on the site of the Rosalind Club, which moved to Lake Eola and was demolished. Construction began in 1921 to designs by architect Murray S. King, and the 11-story, 250-room Angebilt opened on March 14, 1923. Ange declared bankruptcy two months later; the hotel was sold at auction and reopened the next year. It stayed open through the Great Depression, declined by the late 1960s, and after a February 27, 1983 fire on the top two floors was renovated into offices during the 1980s.
The hotel's name comes from its first operator, Joseph Fenner Ange, who ran it from the March 14, 1923 opening until his bankruptcy two months later. In January 1926 the Orlando Reo dealership held a banquet in the building, with vocal renditions of "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi" and "Yes, Sir, That's My Baby." The ground floor now holds restaurants and retail.
The Angebilt stands at 37 North Orange Avenue in downtown Orlando, on the block where the Rosalind Club once stood before it moved to Lake Eola. Offices occupy the upper floors, while restaurants and retail fill the ground floor. The building is reached from street level on Orange Avenue.
On March 1, 1923, two weeks before the hotel opened, Harry Gardiner, billed as "The Human Fly," climbed the outside of the Angebilt to raise funds for the Elks Club. The 11-story ascent was a public spectacle staged while the building was still new.
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