Hotel Thomas
in Gainesville, United StatesCategory: Attraction
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1114 NW 4th St, Gainesville, FL 32601, USA Print route »Phone & WWW
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The Hotel Thomas, also known as Sunkist Villa but currently known as the Thomas Center, is an historic building in Gainesville, Florida, United States. It is located on the block bounded by Northeast 2nd and 5th Streets and Northeast 6th and 7th Avenues. It was built starting in 1910 in the Classical Revival style by noted Atlanta-based architect, William Augustus Edwards, designer of academic buildings at 12 institutions in Georgia, South Carolina and Florida, including the original University of Florida campus, as well as a dozen or more county courthouses in those states plus other building and houses,The building began as the private home of William Reuben Thomas, his wife Kathryn, and their five children. In 1928 Thomas more than doubled the size of the home and converted it to a hotel. On July 16, 1973, the building was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.The Thomas Center celebrated its 100th anniversary on February 12, 2010.