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  • Aerial view over Bailey Boat Company (in 2025 Four Fish Yacht Club and Marina) on Indian River Drive in Jensen Beach.
  • Aerial view of the House of Refuge and Gilbert's Bar with both the inlet and ocean.
  • Building on the campus of St. Joseph Novitiate College in Jensen Beach. Saint Joseph College of Florida was a college operated by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Florida in the former Tuckahoe Mansion starting in 1957. The college closed in 1972 and the property sold to the Florida Institute of Technology.
  • Aerial view over the Anchorage Boatel in Jensen Beach. Caption on back of postcard reads "Next door to Marina and Restaurant -- Ten minutes to Beach. Small, friendly, sparkling clean and quiet, refrigerators, color TV on cable, pool and shuffleboard."
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  • The Bay Tree Lodge estate property on Sewall's Point. The Bay Tree Lodge served as a vacation home for the Kiplinger Washington Editors.
  • Three women pose at a Stuart chrysanthemum flower farm. Message written on back of postcard reads "Greeting to You, Vern. How are you? These chrysanthemums are raised just north of Stuart which is 11 miles north of us. The stretch of there (sic) flowers is very beautiful. At night, they have lights all around the whole lots with net covering all over the top. It is a lovely sight especially at night with the lights on. I'll bet your gardens are beautiful now. Hope you keep [?] Vern, you have so much to do. We both send our love, Chas & Adele."
  • View along the sand at Jensen Beach.
  • Two figures on the porch of a building at the Jupiter Island Club in Hobe Sound.
  • Aerial over the 90-acre Santa Lucea estate off Britt Road on the North Fork of the St. Lucie River. The property was built as a winter home for conservationist F. Cecil Baker (1889-1961) and his wife, Theresa Chalmers Baker. The property included citrus groves and a nursery for many tropical plants.
  • Stuart’s First United Methodist Church at night. Caption on back of postcard reads "The beautiful faceted-glass steeple, reaching 126 feet into the sky, and shining brightly at night reminds us to 'Let our light so shine.' The new sanctuary of contemporary design was completed in 1969 as the congregation celebrated 76 years of Methodism in Stuart."
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