Cranford Avenue Homes

This ranch home includes the many popular features of the houses being constructed throughout Fort Myers during the 1950’s: a horizontal profile under a low-slung roof, large jalousie windows, and an …

This stucco-sided cottage at the corner of Providence and Cranford represents a transitional period before the construction of ranch-style homes became the predominant style for new home construction. The …

This home is the newest one in Dean Park and is an updated version of the “Prairie Style” so popular in Dean Park and other Fort Myers neighborhoods in the 1920’s.  This style, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, features broad, low-pitched roofs,

This ranch-style duplex and the identical “mirror image” duplex constructed at 2668 Michigan Avenue were both constructed in 1957.  The owner, Derick S. Hartshorn, had purchased two …

This “garage apartment,” as these types of dwellings were called in the News-Press, was built in 1939 for Bertha May Lauth, a Fort Myers school teacher. Although built after …