Albin Polasek House and Studio

Built in 1949. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1955.

From the record

“The Albin Polasek House and Studio, also known as the Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens, or The Polasek, is a historic site located at 633 Osceola Avenue in Winter Park, Florida, United States. It is a former house-turned-museum on three acres, overlooking Lake Osceola.”
Wikipedia article Albin Polasek House and Studio, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 56 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1949.

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 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Polasek, Albin, House and Studio - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 633 Osceola Ave., Winter Park, 32789
When was it listed? May 2000
Category. building
Census division. Orlando
When was it built? 1949
National Register reference number. 99000767 - 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 Albin Polasek House and Studio, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering Albin Polasek House and Studio, surveyed 1955

Fires near this property

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Albin Polasek House and Studio between 1992 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 were 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
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Railroad operations and maintenance	13
Arson/incendiarism	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
26 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
2 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
1 August 1992	Railroad operations and maintenance	6.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
28 July 1992	Misuse of fire by a minor	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
27 July 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
15 July 1992	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
8 June 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
4 June 2000	Natural	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Storms near this property

31 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winter Park, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 13 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2008	Lightning	Winter Park	1 hurt	A Winter Park man was slightly injured by lightning while setting on his apartment balcony.
August 2007	Lightning	Winter Park	1 hurt	A school crossing guard was struck and injured by lightning while on duty in Winter Park. He was hospitalized with burns and released.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Winter Park	$50,000	Strong thunderstorm winds blew a tin roof off a car dealership in Winter Park.
June 2002	Lightning	Winter Park	$10,000	Lightning started a fire that damaged an apartment in Winter Park.
April 2021	Hail	Winter Park	-	Public reports quarter to golf ball sized hail in Winter Park.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Winter Park	-	Broadcast Media relayed several images and a video on Twitter of several large downed trees in the Winter Park area. Several pictures showed large downed trees blocking Lee Road and Edwin Boulevard.
January 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Winter Park	-	Several trees blown down in Azalea Park as squall line passed.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Winter Park	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts downed a tree onto a home in Winter Park. Powerlines were also downed by winds on a street nearby.
August 2007	Hail	Winter Park	-	Penny size hail was reported near Winter Park.
July 2005	Funnel Cloud	Winter Park	-	Orange County Sheriffs Office reported a funnel cloud over Winter Park.
September 2005	Heavy Rain	Winter Park	-	Over 3 inches of rain fell in Winter Park.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Winter Park	-	Several roads closed due to large limbs down.
July 2001	Flash Flood	Winter Park	-	About 5 inches of rain fell in the Winter Park and Maitland areas causing flooding of major roadways throughout the area.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Winter Park	-	Severe thunderstorm winds blew down power lines in Winter Park.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Winter Park	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down two trees and large limbs in Winter Park.
August 2000	Hail	Winter Park	-	Trees and power lines were blown down and dime size hail fell at Winter Park.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Winter Park	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees in Winter Park and adjacent areas of Orlando.
June 1999	Hail	Winter Park	-	One inch hail fell and a few power lines were blown down around Winter Park.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Winter Park	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees in Winter Park and damaged a roof top water cooler in Maitland.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Winter Park	-	Strong thunderstorm winds blew down trees, some of which damaged homes in the area.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Winter Park	-	Strong thunderstorm winds blew down trees, some of which damaged homes in the area.
June 2007	Hail	Winter Park	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Winter Park	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Winter Park	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Winter Park	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Winter Park	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Winter Park	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Winter Park	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Winter Park	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Winter Park	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Winter Park	-	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.

1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1956 USGS Orlando East quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
1994 USGS Orlando East quadrangle1:24000

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Interlachen Avenue Historic District	0.2 miles	2011
All Saints Episcopal Church	0.3 miles	2000
Edward Hill Brewer House	0.3 miles	1982
Gary-Morgan House	0.3 miles	2015
Woman's Club of Winter Park	0.3 miles	1995
Annie Russell Theatre	0.4 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000767 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange County	All 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.
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.