Island Hotel

{{Short description|Historic place in Cedar Key, Florida, US}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

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| name = Island Hotel

| image = Island Hotel, Cedar Key, Florida (2).jpg

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| location = Cedar Key, Florida

| coordinates = {{coord|29.13713|N|83.03124|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Florida#USA

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| built = 1861

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| architecture = Masonry Vernacular

| added = November 23, 1984

| refnum = 84000252{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

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The Island Hotel (also known as Parsons and Hale's General Store) is a historic building in Cedar Key, Florida, located at 224 2nd Street. On November 23, 1984, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

The building was erected between 1859 and 1861 by Major John Parsons and Francis E. Hale for use as a general store. It has tabby walls that are {{convert|10|in}} thick and oak beams that are {{convert|12|in}} wide. The Cedar Key Post Office and customs house were also located in the building in the 1860s. The building may have housed both Union and Confederate troops at various times during the Civil War, as the town changed hands more than once. Part of the building was used as a boarding house by the end of the 1880s.{{cite book|last1=McCarthy|first1=Kevin M.|title=Cedar Key, Florida: An Illustrated History|date=2006|publisher=Nature Coast Publishing House|location=Gainesville, Florida|isbn=978-1-4276-0897-0|pages=23–24|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iMcad-3UrDsC&dq=Major+John+Parsons&pg=PA23|accessdate=10 April 2015}} The store closed in 1910. The building became a hotel in 1946.{{cite web|title=Florida's History Through Its Places: Levy County|url=http://www.flheritage.com/facts/reports/places/index.cfm?fuseaction=ListAreas&county=Levy|publisher=Florida Department of State Division of Historical Resources|accessdate=11 April 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702000331/http://flheritage.com/facts/reports/places/index.cfm?fuseaction=ListAreas&county=Levy|archivedate=2 July 2014}}