Thornton Park is a walkable neighbourhood near downtown Orlando, with early residential architecture and a lively commercial corridor. It forms part of the Lake Lawsona Historic District, where bungalows and revival-style homes preserve the city’s growth in the early twentieth century.
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Look beyond the cafes and storefronts to the residential blocks that give Thornton Park its older scale. The neighbourhood lies within the Lake Lawsona Historic District, established by Orlando in 1994 to protect an area developed from the early twentieth century through the 1950s.
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- Thornton Park is within the Lake Lawsona Historic District.
- The district was established in 1994.
- It contains about 500 buildings, many dating from 1911 to the 1950s.
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