Moulton-Wells House

  • Also Known As: Eldora State House

  • Address: Eldora Rd
  • Vicinity: W of Eldora Rd
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building

The Moulton-Wells House was built between the years 1913 through 1926 for Marion Moulton, widow of Julius Moulton. It first appeared on county tax rolls in 1920. Mrs Moulton passed away in 1926 and is buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St Louis, Missouri. Mrs Moulton's heirs sold the residence to Walter M Wells in 1927. Wells improved the home by landscaping the grounds, maintaining its outbuildings and cultivating a substantial garden and citrus grove.

The Wells house at Eldora hosted many guests, including the long-established Sams family of New Smyrna. Frank Sams had been a six-term senator to the Florida state legislature from 1899 through 1910, and was appointed Superintendent of the Seventh District of the US Life-Saving Service in 1885, a geographic region that included the Atlantic coast of Florida and the Mosquito Lagoon House Of Refuge, four miles south of Eldora proper. One of his sons, Murray Sams, had represented Voiusia County as a state attorney and judge, and was an advocate for Eldorans in real estate transactions. Another of Frank Sams' sons, Howard, founded the Eldora Land Company in the early 1920s. It is maintained by at least three New Smyrna octogenarians that the name "State House" became the local reference to the house that Marion Moulton built by virtue of the Sams family association with Eldora for so many years.


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1927/00/00 Walter Montresson Wells Home Walter M Wells buys a house in the village of Eldora, Florida.
1938/04/01 Walter Montresson Wells Died Walter M Wells passes away at Eldora bringing to a close to the emphasis on leisure and recreation that he typified in his winter home.

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Particulars for Moulton-Wells House:
Architectural Style American Colonial Revival
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Area of Significance Entertainment - Recreation
Owner Federal
Criteria Historic Event
Historic Use Single dwelling



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 21st November 2001

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Moulton--Wells House
Registry Address: W of Eldora Rd., Canaveral National Seashore
Registry Number: 01001247
Resource Type: Building
Owner: Federal
Architectural Style: Colonial revival
Area in Acres: 1
Contributing Buildings: 1
Contributing Structures: 3
Other Certification: Date received-pending nomination
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Entertainment-recreation, Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Historic Function: Recreation and Culture, Domestic
Historic Sub-Function: Single dwelling
Current Function: Recreation and Culture
Current Sub-Function: Museum

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