Historic Inns

New Smyrna Beach

Riverview Hotel

An 1885 bridge tender's house raised into a three-story hotel around 1910, on New Smyrna Beach's Flagler Avenue.

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Riverview Hotel
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Built
1885built 1885 as the Barber House, home and rooming house of bridge tender S.H. Barber; raised to three stories c. 1910; west wing added after 1936
Style
Frame Vernacular
Type
Inn
Rooms
18
Credentials
Inside a National Register historic district

The story

Captain S.H. Barber, the bridge tender for Coronado Beach, built the house in 1885 as his home and rooming house; around 1910 it was raised to three stories with a new lobby and dining room beneath. Fred Tryon, formerly head chef at Flagler’s Alcazar Hotel in St. Augustine, bought it in 1936, named it the Riverview Hotel and added a large west wing. After a spell as a youth hostel and years of neglect (locals called it ‘The Gray Ghost’), fire-code violations closed it around 1980-81. John Spang of Winter Park, owner of the Park Plaza Hotel, rehabilitated it from 1984, and the Heller family has owned it since 2011.

Good to know

  • Breakfast: included
  • Parking: on-site free
  • No elevator
  • Address: 103 Flagler Avenue, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32169
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Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.