The CHAPMAN Residence of Mount Dora
Historic Lake County Homes The CHAPMAN Residence of Mount Dora 152 East Third Avenue, Mount Dora, Florida A hundred and one years have passed since Jim and Eugenia Chapman moved into their new home at Third Avenue and Baker Street in downtown Mount Dora. For more than a century now, Chapman’s homeplace, perched atop an incline east of Donnelly Street, has been an eyewitness to an ever changing - yet ever alluring – Mount Dora . James Jefferson Chapman , born at Crawfordville, Georgia in 1866, first found his way to Florida as a young man in his twenties. He explored West Apopka (now Ferndale), Minneola on Lake Minneola, and then was off to Sanibel Island, all during the 1880s. Still uncertain of where he wanted to settle, Jim Chapman moved out West, to the State of Washington. For a time, he called Wenatchee home, then Seattle, but was not yet done searching. Chapman spent a few months digging for gold in Alaska’s Klondike before returning to Seattle where, in 1902 , Jim Ch