The DeLand House Museum is located at 137 West Michigan Avenue,

DeLand, Florida DeLand is a city in central Florida. It is the county seat of Volusia County. The city sits approximately north of the central business district of Orlando, and approximately west of the central business district of Daytona Beach. As of the 2020 ...

. Built in 1886 by

Henry Addison DeLand Henry Addison Deland (October 25, 1834 — March 13, 1908) was a baking soda manufacturer from Fairport, New York who first visited Persimmon Hollow, Florida March 1876. The community where his brother-in-law, O.P. Terry had purchased property to r ...

,Deland House
, ''West Volusia Historical Society'', 2009. Accessed May 25, 2009. it changed hands numerous times until it was donated to the city of DeLand in 1988. It opened as a Victorian era

historic house museum A historic house museum is a house of historic significance that has been transformed into a museum. Historic furnishings may be displayed in a way that reflects their original placement and usage in a home. Historic house museums are held to a ...

in 1990.Museum History
, ''West Volusia Historical Society'', 2009. Accessed May 25, 2009. The museum also contains materials related to the history of western

Volusia County Volusia County (, ) is located in the east-central part of the U.S. state of Florida, stretching between the St. Johns River and the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the county was home to 553,543 people, an incr ...

, and is operated by the West Volusia Historical Society.

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DeLand House Museum
Historic house museums in Florida Museums in DeLand, Florida Historical society museums in Florida Houses in Volusia County, Florida {{Florida-museum-stub

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