Melbourne

Melbourne, situated on Indian River Lagoon, on Florida's "Space Coast," is about one hour's drive south of Kennedy Space Center. The city traces its origins to two early settlements: Eau Gallie and Crane Creek. Eau Gallie, was founded by white ...

Melbourne Ice Plant

This building is on the National Register of Historic Places

This building was started in December, 1926, by Florida Power and Light Co. as a 150-ton ice plant. The plant was to be built in units, with the first unit ...

Melbourne Beach Pier

Constructed 1889

Restored 1985

Originally built by the Melbourne and Atlantic Railroad company, this pier was the gateway to the barrier island. A "Port Facility" for tourists, residents, freight, and mail, it supported a standard gauge railroad from the west end of ...

Old Melbourne Beach Town Hall

This building was constructed in 1908 facing the Indian River Lagoon in the area now know as Ryckman Park in Melbourne Beach. It originally held offices of the Melbourne Beach Improvement Company. The officers, Capt. Rufus Beaujean, son Donald Beaujean ...

Community Chapel of Melbourne Beach Florida

Non-Denominational

This historic Chapel, the oldest Church on the Beaches, has been the center of community religious life since it was built in 1892 on land donated in 1890 by Mr. And Mrs. Henry Whiting.

At a cost of $200 and a ...

Original Melbourne Village Hall

This community hall was constructed, circa 1941, as a barracks on the Banana River Naval Air Station. Following World War II, the Naval Air Station became Patrick Air Force Base. In 1948, this building was declared surplus, and sold to ...

Melbourne & Atlantic Railroad

Melbourne Beach Historic Site

On this site, in February of 1889, Captain Alfred Wilcox took delivery of a shipment of steel rail that would be used in the building of the Melbourne & Atlantic Railroad. Over the coming months, railroad ...

Naval Air Station Melbourne

This site was the 129-building Naval Air Station constructed at the Melbourne Municipal Airport at the beginning of World War II. It was commissioned as Operational Training Unit No. 2 on October 20, 1942 and closed on February 15, 1946. ...

Melbourne Hotel

The Melbourne Hotel was first opened on the evening of September 23, 1924, with several hundred guests in attendance.

Elton Hall was the promoter of the hotel and celebrated his 36th birthday on the day of the opening.

That same year (1924), ...

Melbourne Public Library

The library began in Mrs. Campbell's store called The Bazaar, on lower New Haven Avenue, in 1918.

It soon outgrew the store, moved to a building on the corner of New Haven Ave. and Vernon Place, then across the street to ...