The city of Lakeland was born amid the railroad boom of the late 19^th century. By the 1890s, twenty-five trains per day would stop at the Lakeland depot. The advent of the automobile brought more well-heeled visitors from the Northeast in even greater numbers. The Terrace Hotel opened in 1924 on the site of the previous Tremont Hotel, which had stood for almost forty years. A soaring ten-story design and central air-conditioning made the hotel enormously popular with visitors, including Henry Ford, Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Sinatra. Despite suffering from neglect during the 1970s and 1980s, the hotel was spared the wrecking ball. With a nod to the past and a vision of the future, the Terrace was restored and reopened in 1999.

The imposing 10-story building was Lakeland’s first high-rise structure.

Original Property Opened: 1924