Gamble Place

In 1898, James N. Gamble of the Procter and Gamble Company and a longtime winter resident of Daytona Beach bought this land on Spruce Creek as a rural retreat. In 1907, he built a small cracker cottage with an open front porch and a breezeway connecting a separate kitchen and dining room, naming it "Egwanulti," a Native American word meaning "by the water." At the same time, he rebuilt an existing packing house to process citrus from his grove. In 1938, Gamble's son-in-law, Alfred K. Nippert, completed the "Snow White House," a Black Forest style cottage inspired by the Disney animated film classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The house is surrounded by a Witch's Hut, the Dwarfs' Mine Shaft, and an elaborate network of rock gardens. Together, these buildings and grounds form a historic landscape known as Gamble Place, which was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

Port Orange, Florida · United States