Joseph Wesley Young House
Joseph Wesley Young House | |
Spanish Revival | |
| NRHP reference No. | 89001076[1] |
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| Added to NRHP | 10 August 1989 |
The Joseph Wesley Young House is a historic home in
The house is described as looking like a "Moorish castle with two-dozen rooms" and it may have a resident ghost. One of the "most venerable and storied mansions in Broward County", it was for sale in 2008.[4]
Joseph Wesley Young
Young was a real estate developer in Long Beach, California.[3] He was born in San Francisco.[5] He married Jessie Fay (Cooke) Young (1877–1955), a piano player and singer, in 1902. Although she was five years older than him, her lovely voice and personality captured his fancy when he moved to Long Beach in 1902.[3]
In 1914 a huge flood in Long Beach wiped out the property Young was developing.[3]
He was
After the end of the 1920s boom in Florida real estate he worked on developing Old Forge, in New York. He died of a heart attack on February 26, 1934, in Hollywood, Florida.[5]
References
- ^ "National Register Information System – Joseph Wesley Young House (#89001076)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 9 July 2010.
- ^ Wells, Sharon; Lee, Catherine; Mattick, Barbara E. (July 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Joseph Wesley Young House" (PDF). National Park Service.
- "Accompanying 28 photos, from 1988 and 1989" (PDF). National Park Service.
- ^ a b c d "Prologue: Before 1920". 11 November 2010.
- ^ Young House Awaits a Buyer February 18, 2008 Sun Sentinel
- ^ a b New York Times (February 27, 1934), p. 19.
- ^ leaders honored Orlando Sun Sentinel
Sources
- "Joseph W. Young". The New York Times. February 27, 1934. p. 19.
External links
- Broward County listings at National Register of Historic Places
- Florida Department of Historical Resources
- Broward County listings
- Great Floridians of Hollywood at the Wayback Machine (archived 30 September 2007)
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