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History and Background:
Honeymoon Cottage



 

The smallest house on the island, this was built in the 1950s as a copy of the classic Florida East Coast Railway architecture. It's name is a misnomer. Long thought to have been built by the president of the University of Miami for his daughter's wedding, a visitor to Pigeon Key in 1996 who had worked on the construction of the house revealed that it was built to house the maid and nanny for the children of the families in charge of the Overseas Highway Toll Authority that occupied the island until tolls were removed from the bridge in the 1950s. It currently houses a deputy sheriff who provides security for the island.

Copyright 1998 by Pigeon Key Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting research, education, and the historic preservation of the Pigeon Key Historic District. Page by Dan Gallagher, Ph.D.