Putnam Lodge

Putnam Lodge is a historic hotel built in 1927 in Dixie County, Florida.

[1] Putnam Lodge features a lobby with hand-stenciled pecky cypress columns and heart pine floors as well as a new spa added by the Tampa-based entrepreneurs who restored and revamped the lodge.

[1][2][3] The hotel was built across from the mill and main commissary in Shamrock to welcome the growing number of tourists visiting Florida.

The hotel was noted in restaurant guide Duncan Hines put out in 1938.

[6] Wayne B. Wetherington wrote about his family's stake in the lodge in his memoir.