Andre Smith lived here!

Designed as an artists research colony, Andre Smith built the Maitland Art Center in 1937. On the National Register of Historic Places, the city owned center offers gallery exhibitions, art classes, lectures, a museum store and wedding & function sites. This beautiful property is surrounded with old trees, plantings, fountains and quiet open spaces. A new exhibit opens 5/9 – Images & Illustrations. This will feature etchings by Luigi Lucioni as well as other art from the centers permanent collections. This fabulous facility is a nice stroll or short drive from Thurston House.

Tiffany is Special!!!!

Did you know The Charles Homer Morse Museum of American Art houses the world’s most comprehensive collection of the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany, circa 1848-1933? Did you know this includes jewelry, pottery, paintings, art glass, leaded glass windows & lamps and a chapel from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago? AND…….did you know that this spectacular museum is only minutes away from the only Winter Park area bed & breakfast, Thurston House? Open every day except Monday, people from all over the world have enjoyed this fabulous collection. The museum resides on the famed Park Avenue, about a five minute drive from us.