We just heard back from the city!!! We are historic!!!!!!! Here is the report! A history lesson if you will! 1. The character, interest, or value of the site is related to the development, heritage, archaeological, or cultural characteristics of the community, county, state, or country. 216 First Avenue is related to the development and heritage of Daytona Beach through its association with the Garland family. The lot was sold in 1887 by Benjamin Mason, developer of the Mason and Coleman’s Addition to the City of Daytona, to William May Garland for $300. William M. Garland was born in Maine on March 31, 1866. He lived in Daytona during the 1880s working for his father, Jonathan M. Garland, in a stage and livery business known as Garland and Mathews. He moved to Chicago in the mid-1880s where he lived briefly before relocating to Los Angeles, California in 1890. From 1890 to 1894 he served as auditor of the Pacific Cable Railway Company. In 1894 he formed the W.M. Garland Company, a real estate sales and development company. He is credited with coining the word “Realtor” which has come to personify the profession. William May Garland is further credited with being the father of modern Los Angeles, including the development of the Wilshire Boulevard section of the city. He was instrumental in obtaining the 1932 Summer Olympics for Los Angeles, the first time the Olympics were held outside Europe. He served as a delegate to the International Olympic Committee during the 1920s and was President of the Tenth Olympiad Association. He was the only non-athlete to ever be awarded the Sullivan Award, given to the nation’s top amateur athlete. In 1898, shortly before his marriage, William May Garland sold the lot to his father Jonathan May Garland. The sale price was only $10.00 but given the family relationship this is not a true indication of the fair market value. It is unlikely that the house at 216 First Avenue was built at that time given that William Garland was living in Los Angeles. Jonathan M. Garland was born in Winslow, Keenebec County, Maine on September 7, 1835. In June, 1860 Jonathan Garland was licensed to perform marriages and became an itinerant Methodist Minister. He served as pastor of a church in South Thomaston, Maine in 1861 but after that appears to have been a substitute minister. However, for the remainder of his life he was known as the Reverend Jonathan Garland. In 1862 he married Rebecca Heagan Jewett at Wicassett, Lincoln County, Maine. Family history indicates he was in Florida as early as the 1870s as an orange grower and stage driver. As was true with some many other he could have been a seasonal resident, spending winters in Florida and summers in Maine. His son, Wiliam, worked with his stage and livery business know as Garland and Mathews in the early 1880s and the elder Garland is shown in the 1885 Florida census living in town of Daytona. He is clearly one of the pioneer settlers of Daytona Beach, involved in orange growing, a stage and livery business and boarding houses. From deed records it appears that Jonathan M. Garland built the home sometime between 1898 and 1904. In 1904 he and his wife sold the property to Walter Leon Reynolds of Daytona and Lakewood, New Jersey for $1500. The sales price appears to be well above the value of lots. Furthermore, Walter L. Reynolds was able to secure a mortgage for the same amount several years later. Mortgages almost always indicate the presence of real property as opposed to land which was typically sold for cash or owner financed.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 22:20:20 +0000
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