Vintage Brevard 25

Evening, Brevard !! Here's another old classic from Indialantic. The Tradewinds Club was a palatial Mediterranean style resort that existed from 1926 to 1983. Owned by the same owners as the Bahama Beach Club/Indialantic Casino, the Trade Winds was the center for the beachside social scene. Swimming, golf, fishing, tennis - the site had all the amenities its sophisticated clientele enjoyed; clientele that included Jack Benny, Charles Lindbergh, and Werner von Braun. The Mediterranean architecture was all the rage when it was constructed at the height of the mid-1920's land boom, with similar styling to the Melbourne Hotel (today's 1900 Building on US1) and Indialantic founder Ernest Kouwen-Hoven's Magnolia Park subdivision centered around what is now Florida Air Academy.

Unfortunately, like many of our early structures, time was not kind to the Trade Winds. The property was sold to Florida Institute of Technology in 1969 as a dorm for students, but the venture was not successful, and F.I.T. vacated the building in 1974. After an aborted redevelopment project, the structure was demolished in 1983 and the land rezoned residential and developed.

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