“I played right up to the last minute,” the pianist for the old Langford Resort Hotel said. “It was the end of an era.” The landmark hotel closed last summer, and its founder, Robert ...

Gfeller, a retired psychiatrist who lives near the hotel’s Winter Park site, began research in 2011 and released “The Langford Resort Hotel, 1956-2001” last year, after collecting tapes ...

Despite its prime location in the heart of downtown Winter Park, though, the Langford slowly was eclipsed by other hotels. In 1999, Ritz Carlton Hotels and Resorts expressed an interest in buying ...

WINTER PARK, FL-The Chicago-born developer/investor built the 200-room Langford Resort Hotel, Orlando area's first air-conditioned lodge in 1956, for $1 million or $5,000 per room.

The original Langford Resort Hotel closed its doors June 1, 2000. Founder Robert E. Langford died of heart failure March 31 of this year. He was 88. The property is located in one of the most ...

It is expected to be open in late 2025, pending further development approvals, and will be Langford’s third major hotel after the Sheraton and Bear Mountain Resort in the city’s east end.