Withers-Maguire House

Florida, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Heritage registerNational Register of Historic Places↗

The Withers-Maguire House in Ocoee, Florida is a Queen Anne-style residence built in 1888 by retired General William Temple Withers, a Kentucky native who had begun wintering in Florida four years earlier while acquiring citrus lands in western Orange County. Constructed from pine milled on site, the house exemplifies Stick Victorian architecture and was among the first in the region to feature concealed electrical wiring and closets. After Withers' death in 1889, his widow sold the property in 1910 to David O. Maguire, a prominent citrus grower whose own home had burned; the Maguire family remained there until 1979, with two of David's sons becoming Ocoee's first mayor and first city attorney respectively. The City of Ocoee acquired the house in 1984 and restored it using municipal funds and a State of Florida grant. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, it now operates as a small event venue and historic house museum, with downstairs rooms available for rental and upstairs galleries depicting early twentieth-century life in Ocoee.