"#12 b -Gerlach House- one of 3 prefabs(10 & 15)" Top 5 Page for this destination Fort Walton Beach Local Custom Tip by grandmaR

Miracle Strip Parkway- This building was built on the Gulfview Hotel grounds for Adam Gerlach in 1914. It is another one that is a prefabricated kit from Sears which was brought to the site by barge and assembled. I did not get pictures of the other two prefab houses at #10 and #15. This house is across from the hotel.

The #10 house at 207 Shell Avenue S.E. was the first example on the tour of a prefabricated Sears mail order house from the early part of the century (1913 in this case). The house was built by and for E. R. McKees who was a forest ranger in Niceville. The house was used as a ranger station for Camp Walton.

I also missed #15, which was White House built in 1925 at 189 Brooks Street. That one was a prefabricated mail order house from Sears built for Fred H. White (hence the name - it isn't a replica of the one in Washington D.C.) It served as a temporary public school for older students while a second room was being added to the Camp Walton School (#2) in 1927.