Honeymoon Cottage at Sunset

The "Thomas Guest House, appears on town postcards. It sits just offshore, looking as if one more storm or roosting pelican will cause it to crumble into the Gulf. Locals jokingly refer to it as 'The Honeymoon Cottage.' "

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"On stilts here in the Gulf of Mexico, a house was built in 1959 by [Henry Taylor for] Philip and Margaret Thomas at the end of a 300-foot boardwalk. At the time, they owned the large Thomas Hotel in Gainesville.

 

"Col. George Walton came to Cedar Key to spend a weekend in the Island Hotel, and instead wound up spending years in this house, which he called the "Shark Tooth School". Walton wrote and published several books, including The Wasted Generation and The Tarnished Shield. It was partially destroyed by Hurricane Elena on Labor Day, 1985." It is now one of the most photographed places on the island."

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According to an undated newspaper clipping in a notebook entitled Cedar Key History in the Cedar Key Library, "Meet Author George Walton..." Col. George Walton resides in the most frequently sketched & photographed site in Cedar Key, the house on stilts, 'Shark Tooth Shoal.' Reached by the 300 ft boardwalk, the house & it's occupant attract visitors, sightseers, photographers, artists, and autograph seekers in such numbers that Walton has posted a sign on the gate about midway up the walk: 'Please - no visitors before 12 noon."

 

See www.flickr.com/photos/mickip/4259824857/

 

Also www.cedarkeyguide.com/bigpics.php?image=slideshow-recent/...

Honeymoon Cottage in 1998, photo by Judy Watson

 

Honeymoon Cottage

Cedar Key, Levy, Florida

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