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| View of East Atlantic Avenue in old downtown Delray Beach, FL |
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| 1904 Historic Chapel at Trinity Lutheran Church built by German settlers to Delray Beach |
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| 1950s Priscilla Hotel located in the Frog Alley neighborhood. This hotel was built by Bahamian settlers to Delray Beach |
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| 1936 Sandoway House that was built as a private residence and designed by architect Samuel Ogren |
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Fees for Tour
The Narrated Bus Tours of Historic Delray Beach are held on the 4th Saturday of each month, year-round. The tours are now a 1 hour & 45 minutes excursion and include visits to historic districts, historic buildings and include information about the Seminole Native American, African American, Bahamian, German and other White European settlers to Delray Beach, FL. The fee for the history bus tour is $10.00 per person for adults and free for children and teens under age 18 when accompanying their family (maximum 5 children free per family). The tour departs at 11:00am. Please arrive by 10:45am for the 11am tour. Pre-paid advance reservations are highly recommended. For more information, visit the museum's new website address for the bus tours at http://www.DelrayBeachBusTours.org or e-mail: bustour@MLFHMUSEUM.org or call (561) 243-2662.
NEW Boarding & Parking Location of BUS TOURS, effective March 2007
The Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History will be continuing its partnership with the Downtown Delray Beach Library Public Library with the use of their facility as the NEW Boarding and Parking location each 4th Saturday of the Month for the Museum’s Narrated Bus Tours of Historic Delray Beach, effective with the March 24th bus tour. The new Downtown Delray Beach Public Library is located at 100 W. Atlantic Avenue (do NOT send bus tour payments to this address). The Delray Beach Public Library began in 1913 by the Ladies Improvement Association and its history is incorporated as a part of the tour experience.
Accolades for Narrated Bus Tour of Historic Delray Beach
The Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History’s Narrated Bus Tours of Historic Delray Beach were selected for the 2nd consecutive year as one of the Best Bets in Palm Beach County in the 2006 Guest Informant Magazine for the Gold Coast Edition of Fort Lauderdale and the Palm Beaches. The Guest Informant is a hard-cover magazine distributed to hotel rooms in major hotels. When the Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History tours began in 2004, they were the only tours of historic Delray Beach conducted on an on-going, year-round basis and they are still the only tour series conducted 12 months a-year. In 2006, the Museum’s tours were also selected as Best Tour of The Town in the June 2006 issue of The Palm Beacher & Gold Coast Magazines; in 2005 and 2006, these bus tours were selected as Best Bets in all of Palm Beach County in the Gold Coast Edition of the Guest Informant. The Narrated Bus Tours of Historic Delray Beach were also selected in 2006 as one of the “Unique Travel Gems” by AAA Home & Away Magazine Mid-America publication for the States from Ohio to Alaska and the tours were profiled in the January/February 2006 issue of Home & Away AAA Magazine of Mid-America. A certificate for this honor was sent to the Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History for its bus tour program. These monthly bus tours are hugely popular.
Financial Sponsors for Narrated Bus Tour of Historic Delray Beach
Some of the 2006 & 2007 financial sponsors of the tours are the American Express, City of Delray Beach, Palm Beach County Cultural Council, Palm Beach County Commissioner Addie L. Greene, GL Homes, Nordstrom, Ola M. Vickers, Durante Realty, Edith & Boris Rueger and the Patricia Ann Ravo Fund (for Children’s bus tour program).
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2008 Dates for the Narrated Bus Tours of Historic Delray BeachAll Tours Start at 11am (please arrive no later than 10:45am)
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Saturday July 26, 2008
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Saturday, November 15, 2008 (Alternate date due to Thanksgiving)
Saturday, December 20, 2008 (Alternate date due to Christmas)
Special Dates Added for Year 2008 for Thanksgiving and Christmas Holiday Weekend.
Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 11am
Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 11am
Holiday rate is $15 per person for adults and senior citizens. Children under age 18 are free.
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The following locations are the historic sites for tour
stops which are visited on a rotating basis where the bus makes stops so that
passengers are allowed to get off the bus and go inside to view the inside of
that particular historic building and learn more about its history and its
important role in the history of the settlement of the community of
Delray:
1926 Colony
Hotel
1936 Sandoway House
1950s Priscilla Hotel (built by
Bahamians)
1896 Greater Mt. Olive Baptist
Church
1897 St. Paul AME Church
1903 Cason Methodist
Church
1904 (July) Trinity Lutheran Church
1904
(August) St. Paul 's Episcopal Church
1911
St. Matthew's Episcopal Church (Bahamian)
1924 First Presbyterian Church
But, I am JEWISH, why should I learn about historic
churches?
The historic churches that are featured as a part of the tour served
as important community centers during the settlement of Delray Beach.
Also, 2 Jewish synagogues were started in 2 of the historic churches featured on
the tour. Many years ago Jews used church buildings in Delray Beach for
their Jewish religious services.
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