The hotel features on historic postcards and is depicted in a mural in downtown Orlando.
Miller of Tampa constructed the building on a design by architect G. Lloyd Preacher of Atlanta.
The hotel had 275 rooms, vine-covered balconies around a Spanish garden with more than 500 varieties of tropical plants, and a small orange grove where guests could pick fruit.
It was put up for sale in 1985 for $5.5 million, and at the time it hosted both permanent residents and nightly guests.
[2] The owners could not find a buyer and ended up evicting all of the tenants in November 1989.