565 West Retta Esplanade

This house was built in 1887 by S. P. Hinkley who came to Punta Gorda with the lumber company that supplied the wood for the Hotel Punta Gorda. In addition to being one of Punta Gorda’s first bankers, he was also engaged in the fishing, real estate and cigar industries. After he passed away in 1894, his widow married Kelly B. Harvey, the surveyer that Trabue had hired to plat the town. Harvey lived with her in the house for many years. Mattie Hinckley Harvey died in 1899. Kelly Harvey remarried and his new wife, Elva, bought the property from Mattie's family. She owned the house until 1938 when she died and it was lost to taxes. The turret was added by Kelly Harvey and it served as his office until he left for the University of Florida in 1938.
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