Joseph Wesley Young House
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The Joseph Wesley Young House is a historic home in Hollywood, Florida. It is located at 1055 Hollywood Boulevard. On August 10, 1989, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.[1] Joseph Wesley Young Jr. (1882–1934) was a founder and developer of Hollywood, Florida.[2] He is listed as a Great Floridian.
The house is described as looking like a "Moorish castle with two-dozen rooms" and it may have a resident ghost. One of the "most venerable and storied mansions in Broward County", it was for sale in 2008.[3]
Joseph Wesley Young
Young was a real estate developer in Long Beach, California.[2] He was born in San Francisco.[4] He married Jessie Fay (Cooke) Young (1877–1955), a piano player and singer, in 1902. Although she was five years older than him, her lovely voice and personality captured his fancy when he moved to Long Beach in 1902.[2]
In 1914 a huge flood in Long Beach wiped out the property Young was developing.[2]
He was Hollywood, Florida's first mayor in 1925 and helped rebuild the city after a hurricane devastated it in 1926. His marketing helped bring Robert Anderson to the area. His Great Floridian plaque is at the Joseph W. Young house at 1055 Hollywood Blvd.[5]
After the end of the 1920s boom in Florida real estate he worked on developing Old Forge, in New York. He died of a heart attack on February 26, 1934, in Hollywood, Florida.[4]
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- ↑ Young House Awaits a Buyer February 18, 2008 Sun Sentinel
- ↑ a b New York Times (February 27, 1934), p. 19.
- ↑ leaders honored Orlando Sun Sentinel
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External links
- Broward County listings at National Register of Historic Places
- Florida Department of Historical Resources