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Photograph of Maitland Art Center
Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY 2.5. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Maitland Art Center

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1955.

From the record

“The Maitland Art Center is a historic site in Maitland, Florida. It was founded and designed by architect and artist J.”

Wikipedia article Maitland Art Center, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 56 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 231 W. Packwood Ave., Maitland, 32751
  • When was it listed? November 1982
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Orlando
  • Architectural style. Mayan Revival architecture
  • Architect. J. Andre Smith
  • National Register reference number. 82001036 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1955 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Maitland Art Center, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Maitland Art Center, surveyed 1955

Fires near this property

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Maitland Art Center between 1992 and 2019, burning about 92 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
26 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 July 1992Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 July 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 June 1998Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 June 1998Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 May 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Maitland Art Center: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mabel QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this property

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maitland, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 8 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2000Thunderstorm WindMaitland$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees and large limbs. A car was damaged by a fallen tree.
April 2021HailMaitland-A trained spotter reported nickel to quarter sized hail in Maitland near Seneca Trail and Horatio Avenue.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindMaitland-Broadcast media relayed a report of trees and large branches down in front of a home in Arbor Ridge between Econlockhatchee Road and Dean Road near Union Park. Another report was received from Maitland where a tree fell into an apartment balcony.
July 2017HailMaitland-Broadcast Media relayed a report via Twitter of quarter sized hail in Maitland.
April 2013Funnel CloudMaitland-A public report of a funnel cloud was received. The citizen estimated the location of the funnel cloud to be near I-4 in the Heathrow area.
April 2013HailMaitland-A weather spotter observed quarter sized hail in Altamonte Springs.
April 2013HailMaitland-A trained weather spotter observed penny sized hail in Apopka.
May 2002HailMaitland-no account filed
April 2002HailMaitland-no account filed
April 2000HailMaitland-no account filed
May 1998HailMaitland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange County

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82001036 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange CountyAll 56 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.