COTTAGE AVENUE

Delving into the history of this house I have discovered a map of the neighborhood that was published in the local newspaper in 1908.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038615/1908-05-03/ed-1/seq-34/

Hawthorne Avenue was originally named COTTAGE AVENUE because Lewis Ginter first built 6 cottages in which the carpenters lived while the other larger homes in Ginter Park were being built.  Five of the cottages are below...

 

 

The largest of the 6 cottages, on the corner of Hawthorne and Walton, served as quarters for the supervisor of Ginter’s land company.

The Ginter Park Community Center, which is just down the block on the corner from our Hawthorne house, has served as a community center, a library, and a church (among other things). The community center has SWIMMING POOLS !!!  Billye has been asking for a pool for 2 months now.  I know that this is where she will spend much of the hot summer.

I have yet to discover when and why the name was changed from Cottage to Hawthorne.