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Looking for history — Linda Dorian, whose great-grandparents built the Hotel Putnam, looks through paintings being gathered from the hotel's upper floors for a public sale 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 19-20. The Putnam's contents are being sold to clear the way for restoration of the 1921 hotel at 225 W. New York Ave. in Downtown DeLand.
Julie Bradford is coordinating the sale for the hotel's new owners, the principals of Putnam DeLand LLC, who closed June 27 on the purchase. Bradford said the plan is to clear the furnishings in preparation for a historic restoration, although final plans for the hotel's new life are still being made.
Putnam DeLand LLC's principal owner is Soly Halabi, a New York City real-estate broker who made headlines in newspapers dollar rental car in the Northeast after he represented Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim in the purchase of two landmark Big Apple properties.
One of those hopeful that Halabi will restore the Hotel Putnam to its former dollar rental car glory is Linda Dorian, whose great-grandparents, Barnabas Edward Brown and his wife, Nettie, designed and built the hotel in 1921.
Dorian dollar rental car is hopeful that a large glass-enclosed diorama featuring birds of Florida, which has long stood guard in the Putnam lobby, will be preserved, along with an ancient dugout canoe that has hung from the ceiling dollar rental car above one or another of the hotel's bars for as long as locals can remember.
If the Putnam's new owners don't want to incorporate dollar rental car the diorama and canoe into their restoration, Dorian suggested the historic items might be displayed in the new Earl Brown Park activity center, whose construction is just getting under way in DeLand's flagship park.
Earl Brown Park is named in honor of Dorian's grandfather, who also served as DeLand's mayor. His younger brother, Robert H. Brown, managed the Hotel Putnam during its heyday, until the family sold the property in 1960.
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