Historic Inns

Mount Dora

Lakeside Inn

A lakefront hotel that began as the Alexander House in 1883 and grew through the 1920s, in downtown Mount Dora.

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Lakeside Inn
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Built
1883built 1883 as the Alexander House hotel (main building enlarged 1903); further frame buildings 1908 and 1914; stucco annexes Gables (1926) and Terrace (1929)
Style
Frame Vernacular, with Jacobethan-influenced stucco annexes
Architect
Frederick W. Wentworth (1926-30 remodel and the Gables and Terrace annexes)
Type
Inn
Rooms
90
Credentials
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places

The story

The complex began in 1883 as the Alexander House, a small two-story hotel to which a large addition was made in 1903; frame buildings followed in 1908 and 1914. In the 1920s a corporation formed by architect Frederick W. Wentworth and Archie Harlburt with more than a hundred local stockholders remodeled the main building and added the stuccoed Gables (1926) and Terrace (1929) annexes and a swimming pool. Former President Calvin Coolidge officially opened the Terrace annex on January 15, 1930, and he and Grace Coolidge stayed about a month. The 1981 film Honky Tonk Freeway was shot here, and Jim and Alexandra Gunderson bought the inn in January 2011 and began a restoration.

Good to know

  • Parking: on-site free
  • No elevator
  • Pets welcome
  • Address: 100 North Alexander Street, Mount Dora, FL 32757
Sources (3)

Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.