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Photograph by Stephen Goldfinger, Blogfinger staff. October, 2017. ©

 

Rev. Alfred Cookman was one of the original founders of Ocean Grove.  His “cottage” was built in stages, but he was the first to construct a building on this Lake Avenue site overlooking Wesley Lake.  The turret was added later.  Historian Ted Bell referred to the house as ” a gem”

Historian Kevin Chambers comments below.

Blogfinger researched and wrote a history of Rev. Cookman.

 

 

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6 Responses

1. on September 25, 2019 at 8:47 am Blogfinger

   Here is a link to what I know: https://wp.me/pqmj2-zDb

   
   
2. on November 1, 2017 at 1:36 pm Blogfinger

   We have no winner to our contest to name the historic figure who built this house. Kevin Chambers and Ted Bell knew, but they are ineligible for a prize.

   
   
3. on October 28, 2017 at 4:25 pm Northender

   Rev. J. H. Thornley (58 Lake Avenue)

   
   
4. on October 28, 2017 at 1:55 pm kevin chambers

   Cookman Institute is now known as Bethune-Cookman. It is considered one of the historic black Un. in the US. Mary Bethune ran a school for girls and merged her school with Cookman. Cookman was founded through the Freeman’s Add Society of the Methodist Church.

   
   
5. on October 28, 2017 at 12:29 pm kevin chambers

   Rev Cookman only built the back end of the house. The front that you see was built after his death. About 1872, Rev. Daniel secured 400 dollars in memory of Rev. Cookman from residents of Ocean Grove and founded Cookman Institute in Florida. It is the oldest black college of higher learning in Florida.

   
   
6. on October 27, 2017 at 9:58 pm Tenter

   Ellwood H. Stokes?

   
   

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