Everglades Laundry, Historic laundry building in Everglades City, Florida
The Everglades Laundry is a 1928 building at 105 West Broadway in Everglades City, Florida, now home to the Museum of the Everglades. It is a one-story community laundry building marked by a wayside sign as the Old Laundry Building. The site joined the National Register of Historic Places on September 22, 2001.
The building was constructed in 1928 as a community laundry serving local workers and families through 1965. After that time, it was converted into a clubhouse and eventually transformed into a museum space.
The building now holds the Museum of the Everglades, where exhibits tell stories about the Calusa and Seminole peoples as well as the settlers and business owners who shaped this area. Visitors can see how these communities lived and worked in this part of Florida.
The building sits on West Broadway in central Everglades City and is easy to reach on foot. Today it operates as a museum with regular opening hours for visitors interested in learning about the area's past.
The building was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on September 22, 2001, and a wayside marker labels it the Old Laundry Building. It was bought from the Colliers in 1965 to serve as the Everglades Women's Club clubhouse, and the Museum of the Everglades opened there in 1998 under the Collier County Museum.
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