City: Orlando   County: Orange   Year: 2024
Location: E. Vanderbilt Street at Cornell Avenue

Walter Rose platted the first Rosemere subdivision north of Lake Ivanhoe in 1921. Hoping to create interest and attract buyers to his properties, Rose named the streets after colleges, beginning with Ivy League schools: Harvard, Yale, Vanderbilt, and Cornell. The Rosemere Historic District includes the east part of the first Rosemere and most of the fourth Rosemere, platted in 1924. In 1925 the Cooper-Atha-Barr Company added more college-named streets in new subdivisions adjacent to Rosemere. The community eventually took the name College Park from this development. The National Register of Historic Places listed the Rosemere Historic District in 2009, citing its significance as one of the first developments north of downtown Orlando and the beginning of College Park. The approximately 12-acre district includes residences, varying in size and style, dating from 1918 through the Florida land boom of the 1920s to the postwar 1950s. In the 1960s I-4 construction cut-off previously continuous streets, separating the Rosemere district from the rest of College Park. It remains a residential neighborhood identified with College Park by their shared streets with college names.