Historic Stranahan House Museum in Broward County, Florida

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Broward County attraction

Historic Stranahan House Museum

Broward County · South Florida & the Keys

The oldest surviving building in Fort Lauderdale, at 335 Southeast 6th Avenue, raised in 1901.

ABOUT THIS PLACE

Frank Stranahan came here in 1893 and set up trading with the Seminoles. The building he put up in 1901 had the trading post on the ground floor and a community hall above it. Seminole families came down the New River by dugout canoe and camped at the post for days at a time while they traded. In 1899 Ivy Julia Cromartie arrived, eighteen years old, to teach school for forty-eight dollars a month; she and Frank married on August 16, 1900, and she taught Seminole children informally, which is how the family earned the trust of the tribe. The house was altered as the money came in: bay windows and gas lighting in 1906, an interior staircase and electric wiring in 1913, water towers and indoor plumbing in 1915. Frank drowned himself in the New River on May 22, 1929, ill and badly depressed. The house went on the National Register of Historic Places on October 2, 1973, was bought by the historical society and restored, and opened to the public in the spring of 1984. Guided tours run at one, two and three most Tuesdays through Fridays

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