Old Mount Dora Post Office

The area received its first post office in 1880, when Ross C. Tremarin became the first postmaster and named the lakeside outpost Royellou after his three children, Roy, Ella, and Louis. Two years later, surveyors changed the town’s official name to Mount Dora, choosing Mount for its elevation of 184 feet above sea level and Dora for homesteader Dora Drawdy. With the population booming to 400, Postmaster David S. Simpson persuaded the government to build a new post office on Alexander Street. After only three months of construction, the building opened in the spring of 1928 and served the community until 1962. The one-story hollow tile building featured a Lombardy Engrove tapered tile roof, cream-colored stucco facade, white interior finish, and twelve-foot-high ceilings with a central skylight. It is one of the few Mediterranean Revival style buildings in town, one of the first constructed with pressed concrete block, and one of the only buildings that still exhibits its original facade.

Mount Dora, Florida · United States